Next week we are expecting a real life author: Richard Vaughan Davies, who wrote our book choice In the Shadow of Shakespeare. When Richard heard we were chatting about his novel – set in modern-day Stratford-on-Avon – he kindly brought a few copies into the shop. An invitation followed, and we are delighted that Richard […]

We are inviting volunteers to come and help us lay the slabs for our new “Coronation Terrace” on Bank Holiday Monday, 8th May from 9am. In the afternoon – 1pm onwards – we will also be giving the shop a real Spruce Up (deep clean) and refreshments will be served! It’s all part of The […]

The Trust will be with us today, tomorrow and Saturday to chat to anyone interested in the future of local ecology and wildlife. It’s the Trust, for instance, who donated the wildflower seeds to populate a protected area of Upper Green in Ilmington. The Trust manages many of the county’s prime wildlife sites – from […]

Made by volunteers, they turn a simple coffee order into “I wasn’t going to, but… oh go on then!” And one of the cakes most likely to turn heads is Kat Pilkington’s Chocolate Cake with Malteser Crumb, a Mary Berry concoction that’s seriously hard to resist. It appears like magic on a Wednesday morning, with […]

It’s the Booker Wholesale delivery, a panoply of products to fill the shelves of our community shop. The sound of the lorry’s back-up beeper is like an early alarm system that sets the shop team in motion. Out comes the paperwork and the trestle table and in come Craig and Shiji (in this case), manhandling […]