This is an odd image as it's from Google maps. For reasons way too tiresome to explain I was looking something up and thought, I wonder if the Hub we go to at Shapwick is on Google maps. Well it is but when I did street view it brought up the old set up there, Eco Friendly Bites run by Amy. I loved this set up, it was a bit ramshackled but it worked with Amy serving from a trailer, lovely salads and toasties all grown by herself. Seating was all recycled wire drums or wood and seats made of old tyres. It looked a mess but I loved It. It felt proper old Somerset and Amy fed the birds at night with anything that was left over.
Then around six years ago things began to change and the site began to be redeveloped and made more tourist friendly. Amy moved into a bigger porta cabin and the Avalon Marshes Centre began to be refurbished but eventually Amy closed after eight years. I miss her a lot even though what is in place now does catering for a wider audience. Today Sally has a big business, it's always busy, seating is chrome and wood chairs and buzzers to come and collect your food. I was there yesterday and the food is lovely now but Amy had something else, her home grown salads contained flowers for example.
So here is an image of Eco Friendly Bites frozen in time on Google maps. Not easy to see but a memory of a different time.
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