Christmas is here!!!!

December 20th

Christmas, Young Butcher of the YearNo tags

Jim holding set of ribs in the shop window

Hi all,

Just found time to let you know how preparations for Christmas are going! We have been flat out now for the best part of a fortnight, curing bacon, butchering pigs, preparing beef, counting turkeys, making sausages, assembling pies and of course taking orders! It still seems like we have loads to do though, and to make things even more difficult we have snow everywhere! Never the less all the turkeys have arrived and been allocated, all the ribs have finished their four weeks maturing and Simon wouldn’t be too fussed if he never saw another sausage again!!

I am pleased to say that our order book is full and all our turkeys are sold and we are now ready for the onslaught of Christmas week 2009! I am also very pleased to say that we have just heard that we have won The Countryside Alliance’s Daily Telegraph Traditional Business Award for the East of England Region 2009! Which is a nice way to round off a very action packed year! The England Grand Final is at the House of Lords in London on 3rd February next year.

But for now it is back to the grind stone in readiness for Christmas!