It’s been a little while since my last post but things here in Pangbourne are are as lovely as ever. Easter is generally a busy time of year for us and this year has been no exception. We’ve been filling the counter and the shop with loads of goodies and it’s all looking really fab!
For me one of the great things about Easter is the fact that we’re busy but not inundated which means that we can also enjoy it. Compared to the mayhem of Christmas, Easter is a perfect holiday!
Pangbourne village doesn’t go in for a large scale Easter Egg hunt but all of the shops display ducks which the local playgroup brings round. The kids have to go through the village and write down the ducks’ locations. It’s great fun watching them point excitedly through the windows.
We’re going to be opening on Good Friday for the first time this year. Just a short day, 9-12, but hopefully long enough to satisfy our customers’ cheesey needs! It’s normal hours on Saturday before we have a couple of days off, and then back on Tuesday.
We’ve recently started selling bread every day which is delivered to us daily from the Honesty Bakery in Newbury. It’s proven to be extremely popular and their hot cross buns are (apparently) to die for! We are still doing our sourdough breads from Degustibus at the weekend. It’s just a shame I don’t eat bread!
So what else has been happening in the shop?
We’ve got a couple of delicious new cheeses in our counter. The Smoked Lancashire is looking fabulous and we’re got a beautiful Appenzeller. I’m still sticking to my Lent challenge and so I haven’t tried either of them yet… Thankfully there’s only 3 more days to go! It hasn’t been as hard as I thought it would be but I wouldn’t want to abstain from cheese for much longer!
That’s it from here for now so it just leaves me to say that all of us here in the shop would like to wish our customers a very happy Easter