27/10/2026
SERVED WITH A SLICE OF KINDNESS
By Amanda Ward
The Menopausal Poet
Baguettes served for breakfast,
baked with flair and finesse.
Dressed in large dollops of
encouragement and kindness.
Crumbs of confidence,
gathered and transformed,
rising as deliciously high
as one of Lucy’s lemon drizzle sponges!
Salads and cakes,
cooked as a team,
as swiftly dispatched
as a Formula One tyre change,
but this pit stop is on a train platform,
servicing commuters from Yatton Station,
Strawberry Line, platform number 1.
“Oat milk.
Check.
Brown sauce with that?
Check.
That’s £12.40, please, sir!
Thank you very much!”
And away!
Customers chugging
mid morning coffee
with a slab of Fay’s
chocolate raisin tiffin!
Spiffin!
Winter warming soup from Kerry,
‘Quiche of the day’ from Lily.
Ciabatta and chilli,
Ploughmans a plenty.
The choice is almost as extended
as my skirt elastic
as I can’t stop popping in!
And I’m not even commutin’!
So, if you’re passin’
and it’s a train your catchin’
or a bike ride you’re pausin’
or startin’
or your stomach’s rumblin’,
step into the Strawberry Line Café Project.
But don’t eat all the tiffin,
I’m sidling in next
and I’ll be well upset
if I’ve missed the last one!
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