Wednesday,
21st August, 2002 13:00 BST
Forest folk - Rosie Tugwell |
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Tugwell |
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Take a closer look at the people who live and work in the New Forest.
Rosie runs a local shop, Peter is a vicar, Brian's an agister and
Tony is a village copper. Here they tell us how they feel about the
area and describe their daily lives. |
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Rosie
Tugwell and her husband, Ray, own and run the shop and Post Office
at Minstead.
"We've been here five years now and we absolutely love it. We're
not far from the main road, yet it's like an oasis. It's such a beautiful
silvern area, so natural and unspoilt.
I was actually brought up in Norfolk and I've always been used to
the countryside. My husband, Ray, was in the army so we've been used
to moving around and we just felt that we wanted a break, a bit of
life in an English village.
Ray
does the business side and the Post Office. I do most of the rest,
but it's all shared.
We enjoy working together.
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| Rosie
runs the shop |
One of
our strengths is that we get lots of things from small companies which
the supermarkets don't stock. Things for dinner parties, things that
are home made, something a little different. We find that they are
our main success.
We're
very proud of our cheese counter. Being a pretty small shop people
don't expect to see such a good selection. It's just grown and grown.
It's definitely one of the things that bring people
to the shop. We try to do all the lovely English and Welsh cheeses
but we do stock some of the French ones.
We do lovely Riversdale, from the Yorkshire Dales, right across the
board really, plus wild boar pate, which people get quite excited
about.
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| Rosie
and her cheeses |
We
have a little giggle from time to time when somebody who normally
only comes in for a stamp suddenly asks for something outrageous.
Sometimes I think they're having us on. Somebody said "I bet
you don't do pickled walnuts", and we did! We were quite chuffed
with ourselves.
People who move in, I introduce to other people around
- the shop is a general hub. Lots of laughter goes on in here, we
share everybody's ups and downs.
There's never a dull minute. Ray and I join in with
various things, I do a bit of singing in the local choir and Ray is
involved in amateur dramatics. We both enjoy music and we play bridge
- giggly bridge that is!
I love the forest. I'd like to see people driving slower, they go
roaring through and don't anticipate that round the next corner there
might be a mare and foal, but I just love it. It's the most wonderful
place to live and I just like being part of it."
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