It’s cherry season and they’re in store now! The last few days are also definitely ice-cream season too… Why not combine the two by making a simple cherry compote to enjoy with ice cream as a light and tasty pud? A simple way to create the compote is to stone your cherries, careful as they […]
Archives for July 2021
The rules around Covid are changing, but infection rates are rising rapidly
So here at Ilmington Community Shop, we’ve decided to play it safe through the summer. We will only be allowing up to four shoppers inside and we ask everyone to please keep sanitising their hands and respecting personal distance. In the cafe, you won’t have to track and trace, but we will leave the QR […]
We love to get chatting to the guests in our community café
So many of our visitors have a deep connection with Ilmington. Perhaps none more so than Alan Finch, who was evacuated to the village 80 years ago when he was only six. “I was here for probably two years and back home in Coventry for 1943 when the bombing raids had slackened off,” he tells […]