30/09/2026
A goodbye to our dear friend Dick ❤️
We will be closing the café today ( Wednesday 30th September) so that we can say goodbye and celebrate the life of our dear friend and loyal customer, Dick Lingham.
We first met Dick when we were setting up the café. He trundled along on his scooter and dutifully posed for photographs, helping us demonstrate to the council the width of the pavement! From that moment on, Dick became one of our most ardent supporters and loyal customers.
We proudly display his art in the café, and our very first Christmas nativity window was inspired by his work.
There are so many things we will miss about Dick: his positivity, his zest for life, his inquisitiveness, his smile and his wonderful sense of humour. But perhaps what we admired most was his ability to see the joy in the small things, to appreciate the beauty in the world around him, and to see the good in the people he met.
It has been an absolute honour to know him, and we feel very lucky that his path crossed ours.
We will miss you, Dick. ❤️
And we will always remember you.