Following two minutes’ silence at 11am, the Remembrance service continues in St Mary’s Church, with refreshments to follow. Poppies are on sale all morning in the community shop, donating to the Royal British Legion. Let us not forget those who died so we could be free
Shop volunteers Carole Clifford and Geoff Davies are as excited as small children to see the Advent Calendars come out.
“Then you really know it’s Christmas!” says Carole. Advent is the time when our shelves start to fill with fancy chocolates and groan with gifts. We stage a mini Christmas bazaar in the café, we hold tastings and we prepare last-minute orders so our customers can collect Christmas in a Box. There will even be […]
After the storms, the rainbow.
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 […]
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