We now have prize-winning local honey in store, plus a wide range of locally grown vegetables – beautiful romanesque cauliflowers (so pretty: shall we eat them or photograph them?), new season’s parsnips, beetroot, radishes, french and runner beans, huge marrows and local onions. Richard Ramsden is supplier of the month for his dedication in providing [...]
Our Christmas tree, kindly donated by Charlie Frost in Newdigate, is happily planted on the island outside the shop, and Ant Hamilton has spent several hours of his precious time installing Christmas lights on the tree and on the fascia, as well as inside the shop. Heather Simister has done a wonderful job decorating the [...]
Hoards of customers are relying on the shop for their basics at the moment, as the roads in and out of Strood Green are so treacherous. Our bake-off oven is going like the clappers and we have ordered substantial quantities of vegetables for the weekend ahead, with more snow forecast. If the delivery vans and [...]
This weekend is the first anniversary of the opening of The Shop at Strood Green. We can’t believe it! It has been such a busy year and we have all learned so much from it. The shop goes from strength to strength and now receives over 2000 visits a week from its customers. It is [...]
What would a birthday be without a cake! Jo Songhurst used one of her many and various talents to decorate a very large cake this morning with our logo. As usual on a Saturday the shop was heaving with customers, but we managed to persuade Christine and Scarlet to leave the till and light the [...]
