Liphook Community Magazine Spring 2022

it for Each Other
By Gabrielle Pike.
Since then Lucy and Michael took over the adjoining building
next to the cafe, turning it into an attractive Beach Hut, which
provides additional seating.
While in Australia, Lucy dreamed she would own a cocktail bar
one day and now her dream has come true. Always keen to
introduce something new, L&S Café have been holding cocktail
evenings with food most Friday and on some alternate Saturday
evenings last year, which have become hugely popular with
customers. “It all started on a balmy summer evening in June
2019, when we decided to hold our first ‘Mocktail’ evening,
while we were still waiting for our alcohol licence to be granted.
The event was such a great success that we decided to reintroduce
it after Covid lock-down was lifted in 2021, serving
proper cocktails,” Lucy fondly remembers.
Both businesses have made a lot of changes and upgrades
over the years – learning along the way what to do and what
works. L&S Café now employs between eight to ten staff, and
Liphook Art & Framing has also expanded with two staff, a refit
and new plans.
During the first lockdown the sisters delighted customers with
free deliveries of afternoon tea and children’s art and craft
boxes, which became an overnight success. Deliveries were
made as far away as Guildford, Midhurst and Chichester, while
take-away drinks and food continued to be available at the cafe
in Liphook Square.
“We were determined to keep business going, no matter what
and we have helped each other out all the time,” said Sarah.
“There is always another project we want to do and we have
lots of ideas. “We’d like to combine the two shops somehow
and are planning more events for this year. We also brought
back our popular Christmas Market and Christmas Tree sale.”
L&S MOCKTAILS - Sarah, mum Karen and Lucy.
In addition, Lucy is involved in a charity called “Rocky Road
Rescue” where she is part of a small volunteer team. They save
Romanian dogs from the streets and put them into foster
shelters. She helps to find homes in the uK for the dogs and
has already been very successful, adopting some dogs herself.
The rescue dogs travel from Romania to England on a ‘happy
bus” to be fostered and then adopted into a happy home.
A Pirate’s Poem!
By Ellie,
Aged 11.
I was on the edge
The water lay before me
The pirates parrot on his shoulder
No one will remember me.
The pointy sword upon my chest
In front of me his evil grin
My feet slip and fall
His grin turns to sin.
As my feet lose grip of the board
Waves crash against the boat
The ocean tide envelopes me
Handing me a blue coat.
The pirate’s shadow was above me
He could see me looking up
It is quite a pretty death you know
Someone knew how to shut me up.
Then I started falling
Falling through the blue
Blue turning to black
Just like the life I went through.
Finally I reached the end
Of my adventure of death
And now I knew that because of him
I would never breathe another breath.
I said hello to the fish
Who had their life I control
And then there was me
Who was never going to be whole.
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