When Jenny Linfoot decided to retire from the beachside cabin overlooking Mwnt beach in Ceredigion daughter Rachel realised she couldn't bear seeing another family run the cute coffee and ice cream hut where her mother had worked hard summer in, summer out for the past 40 years.
So Rachel decided to take Caban on herself, despite having a full-time job, thanks to her memories of summers spent playing at, then helping out in the cabin, which is often adorned with colourful buckets and spades, lolly and ice cream menus and has one of the greatest beach views.
Back in 1982, Jenny and husband Richard, who run a nearby farm, decided to try something new and pitched up a tourer caravan at the beach and refreshed beach-lovers, swimmers and walkers with teas and coffees. Four decades later Jenny's Welshcakes are legendary and after 40 summers, most of which were then in the cabin which was rented out to the family by the National Trust after they built it alongside the public lavs back in the 1980s, Rachel says her mother was ready to retire, though she will be kept busy by granny duties.
