With Love from Australia

As you all know by now, we recently won two awards at the Scottish Grocer Awards, and since then, we have received many congratulatory messages from close neighbours, and distant friends.

None, incidentally, were more distant than the lovely email we received from Elma Black, a lady with family connections in Aberdeenshire who lives in Australia.

Elma watches the Inverurie webcam in the early evening in Australia, and often sees our Mooorial moooving out of the shop into her space on the pavement.

As a treat during her holiday in Scotland last year, her family arranged for her to be here early one morning to mooove Mooorial out.

Afterwards, Elma and her husband enjoyed breakfast in The Dairy Tearoom and a spot of shopping for foodie presents to take home to Australia.

However, it isn’t just Mooorial who is milking all Elma’s attention - Daisy, Moorials cousin from downunder, stands happily outside the local supermarket in Berry, the next village to Elma’s.

The township of Berry has very strong Scottish connections, as the Berry brothers (Alexander and David) who pioneered the area in the early 1800s, were born in Cupar Fifeshire and bequeathed £100,000 to St. Andrews University where Alexander had studied medicine.

In fact, Berry’s mayor recently sent a request for William, Kate and baby George to spend some time in the area ahead of their tour of Australia and New Zealand.

She used the fact that without Alexander Berry’s bequest, there would not have been a viable St. Andrews University, so in fact, the Berry brothers were responsible for them meeting each other!

Unfortunately, she didn’t succeed in her request - but we can’t blame her for trying can we?

Does anyone else have any photos with Mooorial, or any stories that they would like to share? Or do you have any of Mooorial’s long lost relatives that you would like us to see?

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Jubilee and Jazz!

Unless you have been living on the moon you will have seen the country in preparation for the Queen's Jubilee and as you have probably guessed we are not ones to miss out on a celebration!

The weekend of the Royal Jubilee is going to be really busy and we hope you can join us in our celebrations! On Saturday 2nd June we will be taking part in the Taste of Grampian event- read our recent blog post to find out what we have in store for all the foodies out there! Taste of Grampian Blog Post

The same weekend, Inverurie Jazz Festival will bring to the town jazz performers and bands from across Scotland on 1st - 3rd of June and we'll be taking to the streets on Sunday to join in on the fun by selling ice cream to the visitors!

Then on Monday 4th June, which is a local holiday, we're turning the clocks back in The Dairy Tearoom by 'going vintage' to mark the Queen's Jubilee. You can expect to be transported to the 1950's with a themed menu for the day- keep an eye on our Facebook page for an extra special offer!

What are you planning on doing for the Jubilee? Will you be getting some bunting out whilst you enjoy some tea and Victoria Sponge cake?

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