This picture, by Michele Hall, comes as something of a Get Well card for Nina Murchison, one of the wonderful volunteers at our Community Shop. Nina is recovering in University Hospital Coventry following a serious car accident last week. Please leave any cards at the shop for Nina – we will be getting regular updates […]
“There’s a bacon sandwich right there, with a nice cup of tea”
“The Willersey bacon is my favourite and we love the bread from here. Also the pastries on a Sunday morning! We buy Barry the Butcher’s sausages from you, and his whole chickens.” Peering into his shopping basket, customer Wilf Buck is taking us through his purchasing preferences. We are grateful to everyone who shops with […]
Half-term customers Sophie, 11, and Haydn, eight, came into the café with dad, grandma and grandad.
Sophie had ordered “an apple and rhubarb fizzy thing” to drink, but first she and her brother inspected the pumpkins, the pumpkin biscuits and the pumpkin chocolates in store. “We come here to go to the park and visit our great grandma Joy Paxton, who still lives here,” says Sophie. Happy Hallowe’en to all our […]
There’s mud and there’s country mud.
“You wouldn’t believe I only washed it two days ago!” says estate worker Kieran, who had just popped into the community shop to buy a late lunch. Kieran’s quad bike is one of many agricultural vehicles that pass through Ilmington as, of course, we are surrounded by farms, fields and estates. Kieran works at the […]
We are delighted to present the Ilmington Community Shop 2024 calendar, a collaboration between ourselves and Ilmington Primary School.
We invited the children to sketch scenes around our beautiful Cotswold village, to match images from our team of amateur photographers. Each month has a recognisable view of Ilmington, from St Mary’s Church to the Old School House, The Howard Arms to The Red Lion. Younger children created their own church mice, smiling sheep and […]
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