There are many tasks which go on behind the scenes in the shop, from entering reams of data on the computer to paying the bills, date checking the stock, fetching the frozen food from Exeter, ordering and sourcing products, cleaning and tidying, watering the plants, keeping the storeroom organised and hauling the deliveries up there each
week. We are very grateful to everyone who helps with these and the countless other jobs, as well as to all those who have become masters of the electronic till.
Your help has enabled us to make donations this month to the Parish Hall for the smart new kitchen and to the Cricket Club, both of which have suffered great loss of 
income due to the lockdown. We hope many villagers will enjoy the benefits of both. If you are involved with another village organisation that has been hit by the current crisis, please come and talk to us.
We have a few new products in the shop now, the first is flour from Matthews Cotswold Flour who mill many different types of flour including their very popular Cotswold Crunch. If you have a request for a particular type of flour, please let us know and we’ll see what we can do.
We know our customers love our local beef, as it usually disappears off the shelves within a couple of days so we hope you’ll be pleased that at the end of the month we will have more very local, grass fed beef in the shop from the South Devon herd reared by the Leach family. Let’s hope the sunny weather continues so we can all enjoy this tasty beef on barbecues with family and friends throughout the summer.
Mary Whiting
