…(or any day until 17th December) you can write to Father Christmas – and expect a personal response! We’ve got template letters and a special Post Box with a direct line to one of Santa’s elves. Bring your children and grandchildren to write their own letter to Santa Claus. Return in a week and an […]

…and we are excited to be staging it again on Saturday afternoon. Last year, with Covid raging, the village decided to bring some light into the darkness in a lockdown kind of way. We illuminated our homes and gardens with fairy lights, we lit candles in our windows and we turned on the Christmas tree […]

Tomorrow we are trialling a new supplier for Saturdays and we’re inviting you to come and taste for yourselves. We will be selling three sourdough-style loaves by Mark’s Cotswold Bakery, which supplies both Taste of the Country and Daylesford Organic. Based in Swerford near Chipping Norton, Mark makes an award-winning, handmade sourdough which is the […]

We help find lost keys and rehome stray sheep, we can set you on a footpath and generally act as informal tourist guides to the north Cotswolds. But it’s unusual to be asked to produce a set of twins. When the attendees of Olivia’s Hen Party visited the shop this weekend, they were brandishing a […]

We’re serving both at Ilmington Community Café, from now to 17th December, when we close the café till the New Year. Our classic mince pie comes with clotted cream and goes beautifully with a morning coffee. The mulled wine is the perfect end to a long hill walk. And you can buy them in combination […]