Summer is round the corner – temperatures are rising and days are drawing out with blue skies and
sunshine encouraging us outside into the garden, the surrounding countryside – where the wild flowers are just stunning at this time of year – and of course to the seaside. How lucky we are to live in such a beautiful area.
Payhembury Provisions is gearing up for the summer with everything you need to enjoy the outdoors. Our new ice-cream freezer is crammed full of delicious treats for everyone and there’s more in the main freezer with yummy Babboo ice creams (a real treat). The shelves are topped with a wide range of garden and seaside toys – buckets and spades, rainbow balls, frisbees, skipping ropes, crab lines and fishing nets – all available in your local shop.
If you fancy an impromptu picnic, we have a variety of cold meats, cheeses and drinks in the chiller, salads and fruit in our newly refurbished outdoor area, fresh bread every day, a wide selection of snacks and crisps and locally produced cakes and biscuits – just perfect for a picnic feast. We are always on the lookout for new local products to sell in the shop and are really pleased to be able to offer a new range of jams, jellies, marmalade and chutney from Bakeshed, which is based in Plymtree. The selection is quite different with flavours such as Apple and Rosemary and Strawberry and Rhubarb as well as old favourites such as Damson, Blackcurrant and Loganberry. Definitely worth a taste.
A few weeks ago we heard that our very own meat suppliers, Veyseys Butchers from Cullompton were voted ‘Best of the West’ – the best butchers of the South West – by the Countryside Alliance, and will go forward to compete in the National finals at the House of Lords later this month. At the time of writing we are waiting to hear how they faired. What an honour for them and so well deserved. We send our congratulations to them all.
Finally we would like to thank you all for your cooperation and patience over the last few weeks while Dan was busy replacing the roof on the outdoor area. We are really thrilled with how the work is progressing. David has made some super display boxes for the fresh fruit and vegetables and we will soon be painting the walls and fitting the new doors. All very exciting. The observant ones amongst you may have noticed the scaffolding that appeared last week!! Well this is for the solar panels which will be installed over the next few weeks and will provide the shop with a greener source of energy while helping to reduce our enormous electricity bills at the same time! While the scaffolding is there, David intends to get a working party together to paint the outside of the building – so if you fancy joining in please let David know.
