This week we’ve taken delivery of some beautiful items in the Wrendale Designs range from Lincolnshire. Watercolourist Hannah Dale started her country-style business in 2012 and has become a nationally-recognised designer of stationery, gifts and Royal Worcester tableware. With half an eye on Christmas, we’ve stocked our gift shelves with her beautiful notelets, book marks […]

Donating food is a great way of spreading joy – from our village bakers such as Joan Redhead, pictured, who give their time to make the cakes for the café, to the generous customers who pop a tin in the food bank collection in the shop. Today we’re celebrating the times that someone has made […]

We’d like to transport you to Italy for our next long-table supper and we thought there was an uncanny resemblance between the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Bell Tower of Ilmington Community Shop and Café… Or maybe that’s just the view you’ll have as you roll home after a three-course Italian feast, a glass […]