Ian and Julie Reynolds have announced with sadness and with great reluctance that the Village Store will be closing on April 5th. Ian has battled on bravely since the closure of the post office facility but it has become financially unviable to continue trading.
Many elderly residents treat their daily walk to the shop not as a shopping trip but as an essential social interlude in their day. It has always been more than just a place to pick up a paper and buy food, and Ian feels he is letting people down by closing. However, the numbers are just not adding up. Ian is hoping to open the store during high season for essential goods required for holiday makers which means it will be closed for three months from April 5th until July. Heidi and Grahame are now in negotiation with W. H. Smith to take on the papers and also hope to negotiate some extra collection points for this, eg the Well Parc, so that those living at Windmill don'f have the full three quarters of a mile to walk to collect their daily paper. There are lots of possibilities for the future, including development and renovation of the Village Hall which we hope at some point will have a daily drop-in coffee facility. Heidi has also promised that whatever happens the village will always have a village shop. In addition, there is the new community bus. ((see later post)
