Archives for May 2021

Did you have a paper round, or were you given the washing up? Maybe you mowed the neighbour’s lawn or worked in the corner shop? Well, Saturdays are calling again, because this corner shop needs you! At Ilmington Community Shop, we have lots of potential volunteers, but very few regular takers for Saturdays. We’re not […]

… and usually we’d be looking forward to serving hundreds of slices of sponge cake and endless pots of tea on our café terrace. But this year, it was felt it wouldn’t be safe or fair to ask our volunteers to work shoulder-to-shoulder to feed the hoards. So the café will close at 12 noon […]

… locally grown and bursting with colour and flavour. Your average berry contains 200 seeds, dotted around the outside of the fruit. They are good for us, of course, containing serious amounts of Vitamin C, antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. But for many people strawberries are simply the joyous fruit of summer: the staple diet of Wimbledon, […]