Enjoying British Celebrations

At the start of the month we hosted a visit from the Green Room – a promotional vehicle that showcases a range of energy efficient insulation, heating and home improvement ideas.

It’s a local business and in my view we should do what we can to support our fellow enterprises, so I was happy to allow space in the car park. It seems to have been successful, as the organisers have asked to come back again.

We turned our barn into a spooky space to mark Halloween this year and ran a range of different children’s activities, including scary stories, craft-making, pumpkin-carving and fancy dress competitions. We’re very lucky that we’ve got additional areas where we can organise events, as I’m sure it’s a big draw for customers.

Once again we’re planning to mark British Sausage Week during the first week of November, so throughout October our butchers have been perfecting the new bangers we’re launching. Although there are many different themed food weeks now, British Sausage Week always seems to capture the public’s imagination.

We’re renowned for our sausages so we intend to have a one-day sausage festival on Saturday November 5th, and have launched two new flavours called the Brian Clough Banger and the Henry Cooper Sausage to mark sausage week, which this year has the theme of legendary bangers.