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2000s: Coniston waters are not always as smooth and ripple free as they would first appear…
2000s: Coniston waters are not always as smooth and ripple free as they would first appear…
Persimmon Brown’s flower shop is doing well. It’s Valentines Day soon so that more than helps. There is a lot of business not just in the Windermere area where her shop is but around the Lake District in general. However she starts to receive a series of mysterious and anonymous messages that cause those who they’re meant for a great deal of distress. Then one recipient disappears….
A flower shop on the banks of Lake Windermere. A nice and busy place catering for the local business and passing trade. With Valentine’s day coming up, there is a lot of toing and froing from one village to another catering for the increase in trade.
But the travelling around this remote yet beautiful part of the world is not as fun if you work there and are not a tourist. Simmy has to go to Newby, Coniston, Troutbeck and Bowness but she even sees the streets around her as some sort of obstacle course:
..”The streets of Windermere where a scatter of shoppers were passing , bundled inside wooly scarves and hats. At this time of year it feel like going halfway to the North Pole”
Coniston is not on her route nor her patch and she’s not been driving again for that long so the journey could be rather difficult for her.
That’s only the start of the problems she runs into at Coniston…
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