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[Egluntyne]

From **Whirlow Farm Trust**

 

£38 for a tree that won't drop its needles (allegedly) inc delivery.

 

For those who are local to Sheffield, they are also selling turkeys,

 

raised to an exceptionally high welfare standard, they are completely free range

 

Bronze £8.00kg/£3.63lb

White £7.00kg/£3.18lb.

[Omletina Kyckling]

I am impressed, and now feeling shamed and disorganised....

[Egluntyne]

now feeling shamed and disorganised....

 

Don't...please! It is the first time I have ever been so organised, and what prompted me was a leaflet dropping onto the doormat this morning.

[Guest]

I ordered my turkey on Thursday, a lovely free range "Copas" turkey. We ordered it from our butcher but you can also have them delivered http://www.copas.co.uk/turkey/home.html

[Cinnamon]

Copas is very near to me

 

I ordered my tree online about 3 weeks ago - they sell out of delivery slots very quickly

[Guest]

http://www.copas.co.uk/turkey/home.html

 

I forgot to say, they do high welfare barn reared birds too for anyone on a budget.

[Cooks]

We are not eating turkey this year. I haven't eaten meat for a while now myself and we have no relly's this year so the children and hubby are having a large free range chicken.... they much prefer chicken to turkey so unless they fancy beef it will be a large chicken.

I have for the last two years previously ordered a chicken crown from the butcher where they roll the meat? they were great as no-one ike the legs in the house.

I always have my tree out of the loft, it is the sort that people say.."is that a real tree??" so it looks great and to be honest I prefer to keep it like this with a puppy now

[freddie]

Its still OCTOBER!!!!!

Please dont start this soon, as most of us havent thought about it, let alone done anything...

We've got two birthdays to deal with 1st, and will think about Christmas food after that... about the 21st Dec!!

mind, we have a really good butcher in the village, and we still have our shop, for the moment, so I can be lax... just as well, or it will be toast for lunch!!

[Guest]

Its still OCTOBER!!!!!

Please dont start this soon, as most of us havent thought about it, let alone done anything...

We've got two birthdays to deal with 1st, and will think about Christmas food after that... about the 21st Dec!!

mind, we have a really good butcher in the village, and we still have our shop, for the moment, so I can be lax... just as well, or it will be toast for lunch!!

 

 

yeah!! amen to that!! christmas gubbins should be confined to the Christmas thread like footie is in the footie thread - so the rest of us can all do it at the last minute when it is supposed to be done!! IT'S STILL OCTOBER!!

 

Phil

[Cinnamon]

Rubbish,Christmas is great so bring it on I say

 

I want to get my shopping done before the schools break up (mid December) & before the traffic into town gets too bad (mid November ),& most importantly I want to spread the cost a bit.

The earlier I start,the earlier I finish

I am already about halfway through, have sussed out what to buy most people & will be getting foodie bits in from next week.

[Blackrocksrock]

I love xmas too but the price of those copas turkeys is something else - I think we will not be having turkey this year! There will only be 2 or at the most 3 people so steak on the menu me thinks

[Egluntyne]

Nothing wrong with a bit of forward planning.

 

I imagined that info about the free range turkeys might be of interest to other Sheffielders.

 

As they are available in limited numbers, best to order early, otherwise the only choice available to shoppers might be a bargain basement, intensively reared bird.

 

Hands up all those who would prefer not to have one of those.

[Cinnamon]

I love xmas too but the price of those copas turkeys is something else - I think we will not be having turkey this year! There will only be 2 or at the most 3 people so steak on the menu me thinks

 

 

I am with you on that one.

We aren't too keen on turkey,& decided to have a goose this year instead,but they are even more than a turkey, & there is just the 4 of us.

 

M&S do a duck/chicken/turkey thingy which we might get instead.......or even just a large duck

[Valkyrie]

We've been discussing the turkey ordering - it has to be done to reserve one in time. We have also decided on one present per parent or sibling and children are to be done as grandparents wish. Neither OH or I will get each other anything - we usually buy something that we need which looks like a new fridge/freezer for the garage as our old one keeps frosting over. I have one request from OH though, "finish that blooming tablecloth quilt for this year, for goodness sake!" It has been a "Work in Progress" or a "UFO" (unfinished object) for a couple of years - just needs tweaking because the table is bigger than the quilt - actually I'm still patchworking it.

Our tree is now 16 years old - we used to have real ones, but DS kept getting prickles ages after while he was crawling, so we decided to have a fake one for DD. It still looks lovely, although it can drop needles occasionally. We thought about replacing it a while ago, but it looks better than the ones in the shops.

[Cate in NZ]

We just booked a beach house for Christmas Eve . Our Christmas is inevitably going to be different this year, so we've decided that rather than sitting at home wishing that we had family members with us, and all the tree and turkey works...and, of course, James Bond on the TV , we're going to go all out to make it different. Hubby's work owns a bach (ie, beach house) which is really inexpensive to rent and we're off to Whakatane to spend Christmas Day on the beach .

Christmas lunch will be a BBQ

MIL is arriving on Jan 3rd...so we'll have a later than usual family celebration after she's arrived .

I'm usually one that argues against focussing too much on Christmas too early, but we do need to prepare and get organised well in advance if we want the Christmas we want (yikes, reading that sentence maybe it should be dissected in the grammar thread , oh well, I think you know what I mean ). I'm certainly not one for putting up the decorations in November, or doing much of my Christmas shopping before July, but for some things you just have to be organised.

Surely

That turkey sounds Egluntine

[Valkyrie]

Kate's done it again!

[Guest]

M I C K E Y M O U S E

 

I can't say I've even THOUGHT about a Christmas dinner - but I read online that they usually let you into the park extra early if you are staying on resort. Will make a change from cooking a turkey for hours on end to realise 3 things

 

1. it still isn't cooked!

 

2. Delia must be LYING about the cooking time

 

3. I'm a vegitarian, Mum eats three bits of meat, James eats 2 and the cats have a £50 free range turkey to enjoy for the next SIX MONTHS!

 

So this is another way the trip to Florida is saving us money!

[Janty]

We are still deciding what meat to have for Christmas. Last few years we have had a chicken in a duck in a turkey from our butchers. We fancy a change this year though. Current thinking is a Kelly bronze turkey. We met him (Kelly) at Jimmy's last year and saw a proggy about him. He seems like a good bloke who cares for his birds.

 

I have just bought the last of my Christmas pressies this week.

Nothing wrong with a bit of forward planning.

 

[Sunshine]

We go up to Scotland for Christmas so no need to worry about Christmas dinner(however don't think i will be eating the meat this year as i don't think it will be from free range turkeys-are intensively reared turkeys kept as badly as battery chickens?) But we do have New Year's lunch which grandma orders and we cook.

 

Penguinmad-when we went to Florida for Christmas/New Year a few years back we still had Christmas lunch because we stayed in a villa. Christmas is ace there but very busy compared to when we have been at different times of the year.

[Shirl]

I'm still trying to get an answer from my sis and family as to whether they are coming for xmas dinner. They don't seem to understand that I want to get my Kelly's turkey ordered. Anyone would think xmas in months away

[Guest]

I only go to my butchers every 2-3 months so I had to order mine.

 

I've been planning Christmas since January actually; deciding what to put in my hampers, growing, picking, organising, lookintg for recipes and cooking the goodies to go into them etc. I've really enjoyed the forward planning. I feel much more in touch with the seasons since we got the girls and subsequently started growing our own fruit and veg.

 

I like planning ahead, it's good to have something to focus on and look forward to, takes my mind off (for a while anyway) all the sad stuff that's happening at the moment.

[Lesley]

Its still OCTOBER!!!!!

Please dont start this soon, as most of us havent thought about it, let alone done anything...

We've got two birthdays to deal with 1st, and will think about Christmas food after that... about the 21st Dec!!

mind, we have a really good butcher in the village, and we still have our shop, for the moment, so I can be lax... just as well, or it will be toast for lunch!!

 

 

yeah!! amen to that!! christmas gubbins should be confined to the Christmas thread like footie is in the footie thread - so the rest of us can all do it at the last minute when it is supposed to be done!! IT'S STILL OCTOBER!!

 

Phil

 

I quite agree that this should be in Christmas thread - but, as I can't work out how to combine them, it will have to stay

 

 

Certainly a different Christmas for you Kate - I just can't imagine a Christmas in a warm climate

[Cooks]

I was sent into a flurry of Chirstmas shopping last night.. albeit online, but I got a bit done!

I dont buy for a huge number of people as our family agreed years ago... when I was a tiny thing that they would not buy for each, so immediate family only for me including my brothers and parents obviously.. ooh and my Nana!

[Egluntyne]

When I drove through Leeds city centre on Sunday morning, they were putting up the big Christmas Tree in City Square.

[Yorkshire Pudding]

That means the Leeds Lights will be going up too. Hurray!

 

 

We are having a free-range goose from our local farm this year - ordered with a ham as they only have a certain number of geese and a few pigs ready at the right time. They're rare-breed pigs and the geese are bred and hatched on the farm, then free-range until slaughter.

 

We usually have a real tree these days, since a colleague took early retirement and opened the garden centre he had always wanted. Every year he delivers trees to school and he always does us a bit of a discount. They're beautiful trees and smell lovely - that's the bit I missed when we had an artificial tree!