The early part of a new year is an interesting mixture of resolutions, reflections and in the long dark evenings, a need still, despite all the rich food and festivities of Christmas, for things that cheer.

If you look to our historical past, you’ll find that from the Middle Ages, a need to extend some festive cheer was acknowledged with the traditions of Twelfth Night celebrated on January 5^th, the night before Epiphany and a spirit of Carnevale which in some form or other lasted from Epiphany until Shrove Tuesday.

Cheese can be the unsung hero of your kitchen over the festive period!  We encourage you not only to see it as a cheeseboard on Christmas Day itself, when often you’re already full from that roast with all the trimmings, but as a meal in its own right.

Our opening times in our shops and markets over the Christmas period.