Happy New Year To All!

January 2nd

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Happy new year to you all,

That’s Christmas all done and finished for another year!  “Thank goodness” I can here Simon and Tim saying, or words to that affect! Everything went fairly smoothly, we ran scarily low on pork and had several late nights but it all worked out in the end.

Simon made just over half a ton of Best Lincolnshire Sausages alone! We cut up beef from 16 hind quarters and diced quarter of a ton of stewing beef! Tim made in excess of 500 pork pies not counting all the speciality ones, and to top it all we were all traveling in by sleigh thanks to the weather! Well not quite but we were having to take it steady!

Now that we are into 2010 we have all been thinking about the year that has just gone with all the exiting things that have happened from commencing with our cooked meats and supplying Horncastle Farmers Ball last January and ”Britain’s Best Steak” in the early spring to winning BBC Young Butcher of the Year and the Countryside Alliance, Best Traditional Business East of England Region in the autumn! Then what may the year ahead have in store for us, already I have high hopes for expanding the premises later in the year and am looking forward to starting my Master Butcher Diploma in the spring. I think Simon is hoping, if his list to Santa is anything to go by, for an automatic sausage machine!

For the mean time though our thoughts turn to the Horncastle Farmers Ball, which is coming up in the middle of the month where we supply and carve the cold meat selection. As I speak the ribs and sirloins of beef are maturing, the chines are curing and Simon is fishing for the Salmon on the river Lud!

Well we are nearly back to normality now, come Monday the opening times return to normal and in just over a month we shall be celebrating our second birthday at our Louth shop!

For now though I wish everyone well for the new year ahead.