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Christmas Opening Hours
Wednesday 24th December - 3.30pm closing
Thursday 25th December - CLOSED
Friday 26th December - CLOSED
Saturday 27th December - 10am to 5pm
Sunday 28th December - CLOSED
Monday 29th December - 10am to 5pm
Tuesday 30th December - 10am to 5pm
Wednesday 31st December - 10am to 3.30pm
Thursday 1st January - CLOSED
Friday 2nd January - Normal Opening Hours
Event News
Private party for the Greensted Green & District Agricultural Club
On the 2nd October, we held a fun-packed private cookery demonstration for the Greensted Green & District Agricultural Club with local Aga Chef Mark David(right), who proved to be as charming as always. The delicious Autumn-inspired menu of roasted pheasant and partridge went down a treat and the desserts proved be mouth watering. A very enjoyable evening was had by everyone (including the staff!) and we do look forward to seeing them again next year.
A Local Life Celebration!
The Aga Local Life campaign recently launched the Aga Shop Colchester, where the topics of supporting and promoting locally produced foods took centre stage.
With a huge range of top local ingredients on hand our demonstrator Mary Kemp found little trouble in finding inspiration for her menu. Wicks Manor Pork supplied succulent bacon and sausages, The River Nene Organics gave us plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit and delicious lamd was generously supplied by Colne Valley Butchers. Fresh, free-range eggs were supplied by Brick Kiln Farm and delicious home-made bread proved to be a great treat, thanks to our local Blackberry Bakery.
Not only was there a diverse, tasty range of just cooked foods we were also pleased to have local glass jewellery maker, Eileen, in-store, selling and creating her beautiful pieces. Alternative medicine and healing specialist Karen Coy of local business Anahata, offered some great healty living an lifestyle tips to our visitors. All our customer who attended had a great time, enjoying the variety of activites we had on hand. We must admit, we enjoyed the day too!
Thanks to these following partner producers for their contributions on the day:
Butterfly Lodge Dairy - a great variety of luxury goats milk products including ice-cream and cheese
The Food Company
G&J Barron Farms
Carrol Thompson Floral Moments for her donation of beautiful flowers
Greenstead farm Shop
Aga Demonstrations, Cookery Classes and Events
The Festive countdown begins...
As the festive season fast approaches, the thoughts of cooking turkey and present hunting will soon be with us! With our great range of classes dedicated to making festive entertaining an easier affair, we are sure your Christmas cooking concerns will quickly fbe orgotten! And for some added inspiration, we will be displaying beautiful glass jewellery by local glass designer Eileen. So if you need that little extra Christmas present make sure you come along and have a look!
Pre-Christmas Delights with Mark David (£15 per person)
26th November @ 11am and 7pm
This demonstration will cover food that can be prepared in advance, and stored in the freezer - all ready for the festive season and all very stress free!
Twenty Days to Go! with James McIntosh (£15 per person)
3rd December @ 11am and 7pm
This demonstration will cover getting the essential Christmas Dinner prepared. Not only that, but also expect many great ideas for delicious meals over the festive season.
The Aga Christmas with Sarah Whittaker (£15 per person)
9th December @ 7pm and 10th December @ 11am
A truely informative and fun demonstration that will be looking at how to prepare the traditional Christmas dinner with all the essential Christmas trimmings. Find out a few great entertaining tips, from Sarah Whittaker, for the season including how to tackle those left-overs!
Products on Display
In the window we have a 2-Oven balanced flue in Aga Wedgwood blue (soon to be changed to a 3-oven). We also have a 2-oven oil-fired Aga with gas top Module in cream, a 3-oven, gas-fired Aga in dark blue, an Aga Six-Four with gas hob in claret and an Aga Four-Two in Royal blue.
Also, we have live models of the 4-oven gas-fired powerflue Aga in pewter, a 400 Rayburn in British racing green with a power flue and an Aga Refrigerator in black. We also have just taken delivery of Fired Earth Original Shaker kitchen furniture.
Recycle with us, and support a great cause!
All the staff here at The Aga Shop Colchester, like to do their bit for the environment and recycle all they can. All our bottles, cans, etc go to the local recycling banks - we even recycle postage stamps! However, like many other businesses, we have found it difficult to effectively recycle our old printer cartridges.
We have now discovered that there are many charities that get a donation from every old ink cartridge sent to them - one such charity being the Guide Dogs Recycling Scheme. As a result, we have decided to support this particular initiative. If any of our customers would like to help us simply bring your empty ink cartridges to the shop, and we will forward them on to the charity.
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