This year the Flower show is in the Woodgreen Village Hall which has unique murals painted in the 1930s depicting the then villagers and the activities they enjoyed at the time, including a flower show, picking apples for cider making. picking merries which were popular at the time, morris dancing, poaching, sunday school for the children ( a few of the children are still alive today) and so on. They are unique as far as we are aware. This is a wonderful backdrop to the flower show.
This year the Community shop is producing a calendar along the same lines. Our villagers and local activities, including cricket on the village common/green, morris dancing outside the pub, the church celebrating it's 100th anniversary, a steam engine fair, the flower show, the parish council, the local "bobby". actually a WPC, sheep shearing, the community shop staff, volunteers and committee en masse, play school sports day, cows being rescued in the floods by the local fire brigade and so on. Hardly a new forest pony in sight, more a modern murals.
There is an app I have on my phone, you can use it with the magazine too and you scan it and it gives you more info, a bit like a bar code. I don't use it a lot but it has it's uses
WW, does your village shop only stock local produce or does it have a supplier, maybe a good excuse for a visit
We use a national supplier, and you can get just about everything you want at reasonable prices. However about 25-30% of our sales are defined as local ( from the same county or within a 30 mile radius) In particular most of our meat, CAKES,milk, cheese,CAKES, gifts, bakery ( we bake in house too every morning), and did I mention CAKES, chocolates, and lots more. Best lemon drizzle cake ever! Definitely worth a visit, even if it is only a virtual one ...woodgreenvillageshop.co.uk....
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This year the Flower show is in the Woodgreen Village Hall which has unique murals painted in the 1930s depicting the then villagers and the activities they enjoyed at the time, including a flower show, picking apples for cider making. picking merries which were popular at the time, morris dancing, poaching, sunday school for the children ( a few of the children are still alive today) and so on. They are unique as far as we are aware. This is a wonderful backdrop to the flower show.
This year the Community shop is producing a calendar along the same lines. Our villagers and local activities, including cricket on the village common/green, morris dancing outside the pub, the church celebrating it's 100th anniversary, a steam engine fair, the flower show, the parish council
, the local "bobby". actually a WPC, sheep shearing, the community shop staff, volunteers and committee en masse, play school sports day, cows being rescued in the floods by the local fire brigade and so on. Hardly a new forest pony in sight, more a modern murals.
There is an app I have on my phone, you can use it with the magazine too and you scan it and it gives you more info, a bit like a bar code. I don't use it a lot but it has it's uses
WW, does your village shop only stock local produce or does it have a supplier, maybe a good excuse for a visit
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think this episode of Love Your Garden may well make me cry.......
We use a national supplier, and you can get just about everything you want at reasonable prices. However about 25-30% of our sales are defined as local ( from the same county or within a 30 mile radius) In particular most of our meat, CAKES,milk, cheese,CAKES, gifts, bakery ( we bake in house too every morning), and did I mention CAKES, chocolates, and lots more. Best lemon drizzle cake ever! Definitely worth a visit, even if it is only a virtual one ...woodgreenvillageshop.co.uk....
We have several shops near us that sell those kits Edd, I have one in my little bike bag
But I sell food not puncture repair kits 
And do you have any cake Woody?.....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes, and we have 3 post mistresses and a post master....
oops, we are .org not .co.uk sorry
Sounds like a village out of a Joanna Trollope novel....I'm going to ask tomorrow if we are your national supplier