A busy morning for me waking up 5:20am a quick shower dressed and out the door at 5:40am to join the queue at the butchers but as I turn the corner, no queue and they seem to be opened early. That was a result and better still only one customer was collecting her order but a part of me wondered if they had opened the door early if I was first in the queue.
Last night I tweeted a message direct to my butcher saying, “@OrielJonesLtd Off to bed to make sure I am outside at 6am for my Christmas order” hoping they would pre pack it for an easy collection. It worked my order was spread out just needing to be bagged it looked impressive for this meat eater. The lads at Oriel Jones are top notch.
I think everyone knows I join the Christmas club at my butchers and so why haven’t you. The young lady in front parted with over £180, cash while I parted with no cash on the day. I always set a target with our savings this year it was £130, in fact we saved a pound more, and the total cost of my order was £132.12 meaning I saved around £3 per week over 50 weeks and they dropped the £1.12.
Has I walked home with my bags full of meat I kept my eye out for rampaging, protesting vegans? I decided before getting home what about starting a new Christmas Eve tradition as I fancied a trip to Pettigrew Bakeries. I love their bread along with the sausage rolls.
As soon as I packed the meat away, I told wifey, I was going to go up to Pettigrew relying on them having an early start … wrong I was there around 6:30am and wasn’t opening until 7:30am. No way was I standing outside for an hour so I took myself over the road to the bus stop sat there and engaged in conversation with early morning bus riders. After an hour, the shop finally opened and when that door opened, the smell was to die for, did a bit of shopping, buying a beef pastie, which I will be reviewing soon as I have eaten it. Maybe in a day or so for writing the review and for the pastie that is in the oven for a warm up.
Once off the bus, yes I need a bus up to the bakery I nipped into the veg shop to buy the veg for dinner tomorrow shopping local is important any time of the year. Yes the meat, bread, veg would all be cheaper at Tesco, but I like to shop local where we can.
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