Archives for September 2022

Emma and Crendon relax with the morning papers, Cappuccinos and a breakfast flap jack. “If we only buy one, I know you’ll steal some of mine!” says Crendon. The couple are staying with relatives in Ilmington and are getting married in Cornwall next year. We hope they get a day as glorious as this

… a team of volunteers spent most of Sunday totting up every item on the shop shelves. Every year we undertake the annual behind-the-scenes stocktake. It’s a physical job which can involve getting down on your hands and knees to identify every household product, every pickle and preserve, every bottle of wine and tin of […]

…when day and night equalise around the globe and autumn begins in the Northern hemisphere. In the Cotswold village of Ilmington, people gathered for an Autumn Apple Feast, as they may have done hundreds of years ago. Ilmington used to be famous for its apple orchards and some ancient examples survive today. We celebrated in […]