This weekend, we caught up with Wags and Fiona Firmin all the way from Freshford near Bath. Wags was for three years chair of the committee for “Galleries Shop and Café”, a community business in Freshford village. He even constructed their café building in his retirement. The couple loved Ilmington Community Shop and Café and […]

And we’re hoping you’ll join our celebration of the traditional English strawberry. To help launch the event, we roped in (left to right) Gill, Joan, Liz, Janet and Cynthia, fresh from a very traditional game of tennis at Ilmington Tennis Club. They are all glamorous grannies and Janet is a five times great-grandmother. She and […]

It’s become an annual ritual of cake-baking and tea-brewing which involves dozens of volunteers during the National Garden Scheme weekend. We sliced up 38 beautiful home-baked sponges and tray bakes, took to the drinks stations, washed up like galley slaves and had a lot of fun doing it. We met lots of lovely new people […]