Bunty, chief tea maker.
Having grown up in a large family and close-knit village community in rural Dorset Bunty has an innate love and appreciation for the coast and the countryside and is always happiest outdoors, regardless of the season or the elements.
Over the years she has learned that while life inevitably brings with it both the good days and the best times, the dark days and the worst times - no matter what life is always better when we find the time and make the effort to get outdoors. To change one’s surroundings, one’s outlook, view and perspective is to change one’s world, whether feeling the sun on one’s face or the rain through one’s toes, hearing a bird sing or watching a river flow - at that moment in time, life will undoubtedly feel better, lighter, simpler, brighter.
Sometimes we just need to learn to help ourselves, to find our own toolkit for life, for living and breathing and for Bunty, it’s taken years but she’s learned that miracles truly happen outdoors - the greatest, simplest and most effective cure her own personal demons, insecurities, worries and world is to get outside and that that the old adage is true – a problem shared IS a problem halved.
- boundless enthusiasm tempered by realism
Unconventionally Bunty has always enjoyed a more analogue and simple way of life, favouring a life-long love of Morris Minors over modern motors, considered and intentional handwritten letters and cards over a digital age of texts and emails - along with a passion for connecting with the news of the world via a vintage Roberts radio, not having owned a TV or a screen of its kind for 20 years.
Unsurprisingly Bunty’s ethos, mantras and values are equally as simple - about finding the time, making the effort, being bothered, asking the question, and asking twice if needs be. As such, it was with her undeniable love of people and a certain belief that we are all stronger together that ‘Brew With A View’ was conceived.
It’s her very modest attempt at trying to help make a tiny difference in the world, albeit a small contribution to society and community in difficult times, a simple yet attainable and affordable social initiative to encourage everyone and anyone to get outside, to connect with outdoor life and with people, and for once, the opportunity and permission to ‘just be’ – outside with a friendly and life-affirmingly simple cup of tea.
