Today is National Best Friends Day and we’re marking the occasion with a snapshot of two friends who like to catch up at Ilmington Community Café. “We meet in the café most Wednesdays,” says Carol Taylor (left), from Oxhill. She and Nicola Loades, from Newbold Pacey, often meet with another longtime pal, Belinda from Ilmington, […]

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 […]

…as the village prepares to play its part in the National Garden Scheme. Cakes and tea will be served in the Community Café from 12.30 to 6pm on Saturday and in the Village Hall on Sunday. We are urgently seeking more homemade cakes for Saturday, so please do call us on 01608 682838 if you […]