The Old Kiln House news and views

Wyatts Farm Shop

Wyatts Farm Shop is located near Great Rollright which is 10 minutes from our luxury Cotswolds B&B in Shipston-On-Stour and Great Rollright is also only a mile from the amazing Rollright Stones.
Wyatts is unique in that it has a green elephant standing guard at the entrance.

Wyatts has an in house butchery that supplies freash meat seven days a week. They also make a point of stocking local produce.

The farm shop sells a wide variety of delicious treats and gifts. There is also a nursery and coffee shop on the premises.

Wyatts also uses milk from its own dairy herd to […]

By |August 14th, 2015|Farm Shops and Delis|0 Comments
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More baby birds

Last year we discovered hidden guests in our garden, i.e. two baby pigeons.
Proof of our hospitality is that this year we have two baby starlings with protective parents in tow.

Long may this continue!

By |July 31st, 2015|Our garden|0 Comments
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Dining out – The Churchill Arms, Paxford

Paxford is another beautiful village about seven minutes from Shipston-On-Stour where we have our Bed and Breakfast.

The Churchill Arms is a lovely pub which has recently been revamped and it also features a great portrait of my husband’s hero, Winston Churchill.
We visited the pub last month to try out their new menu and were suitably impressed.
The decor is smart but sympathetic and the menu a good take on modern English.

The service flowed well and we really enjoyed our dishes especially the Haddock Souffle starter.
All in all an excellent experience and we will definitely be recommending this restaurant to our […]

By |June 14th, 2015|Eating Out|0 Comments
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Dining at Sheldon’s Wines – 2

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about our friends Elisa and John staring a new venture at Sheldon’s Wines an independent wine merchant in a beautiful, interesting building in Shipston-On-Stour. Sheldon’s is just two minutes walk from our Bed and Breakfast.
                                       
Well, it is a triumph! The décor is excellent, very sympathetic to the building but also chic and the food excellent.
     
Friday night was very busy with Elisa and John’s burger wagon serving up a storm. If you […]

By |May 17th, 2015|Eating Out|0 Comments
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Another Shipston dining option at Sheldon’s Wine Cellars

Some more good news for Shipston.
Our friends Elisa and John who run a lovely Cotswolds catering company called Lord and Lady food are going to start offering food at Sheldon’s Wine Cellars.

Sheldon’s is a good wine merchant located in a very interesting building in  the heart of Shipston. Sheldon’s has vast cellars where wine used to be bottled and which are now used for catered dining events. The cellars extend under the surrounding roads and also lead to tunnels under Shipston which lead who knows where .  The building has fascinating history (amongst other things, it was once used […]

By |April 25th, 2015|Eating Out|0 Comments
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New Cotswolds book – SECRET GARDENS OF THE COTSWOLDS

The very talented photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas is releasing a new book, Secret Gardens of the Cotswolds with written by Victoria Summerley .
It will be released on the 5th February 2015 but I have already pre-ordered a copy.
The photography looks spectacular and if the text is similar to Victoria’s blog, it will be a great read.

By |January 26th, 2015|Countryside, The Cotswolds|0 Comments
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Winter sunshine in the North Cotswolds

We have become Shipston residents relatively recently and have been very impressed by the wonderful winter weather. This year has been especially spectacular with some amazing sunny frozen days.

I was walking Charlie this week with my friend Elaine who has lived in Shipston for more than thirty years and she was saying that most of the time the weather in winter is as good as summer. It is not clear why, perhaps there is a bit of a micro-climate here or else it may have to do with the air coming in from Wales over the Vale of Evesham […]

By |January 20th, 2015|Countryside, The Cotswolds|0 Comments
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Pub review – The Red Lion, Long Compton

Long Compton is about a seven minute drive from Shipston-On-Stour where our luxury Bed and Breakfast, The Old Kiln House is located. Long Compton is a lovely village surrounded by beautiful scenery and with the world famous Rollright Stones right next door.

 It is also home to the wonderful Red Lion Pub .
 
On Sunday, after getting some rave reviews from guests,  we wondered over with CotswoldsCharlie (as it is a dog friendly pub). CotswoldsCharlie was given a huge welcome by the lovely manager Lisa and he was even more excited when he saw that there were Pig’s Ears on the […]

By |October 8th, 2014|Charlie, CotswoldsCharlie, Dog friendly, Eating Out|0 Comments
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The changing seasons

Slowly but surely we are coming to the end of a lovely summer. I say that because some of the days we are still having are so lovely that they still feel like summer.
However, most of the harvests are in, the soil has been turned over and the hay bailed.
 This year we had especially beautiful displays of rapeseed around us and this is the before and after view.

 Our garden however is still a little confused. We still have strawberries sprouting

 and our rose bushes are still exploding in new growth

So it feels like there is still a lot of life […]

By |September 23rd, 2014|Countryside, Our garden|0 Comments
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Shipston Shopping – The Cotswolds Tailor

Another great shop in Shipston-On-Stour is The Cotswold Tailor run by Alex Edwards. He opened in Shipston about a year ago after having great success in Woodstock.

Alex has impeccable style and stocks what I would describe as “modern country” with a great mix of styles for customers of all ages and dispositions.

Conveniently , there is a lovely ladies store Dice directly next door so, while the ladies are shopping, the men have a chance to pick something up themselves.
Beware though, many of our clients have entered the store and left carrying many packages!

By |September 9th, 2014|Shopping|0 Comments
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