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For thel ast umpteen years we've bought most of our beef from online supplier Donald Russell. I love their stuff, superb quality. (We buy our mutton and lamb, and Pork, from other specialist suppliers). We've tried other suppliers from time to time, but have always gone back to Donald Russell because of the quality of the product and the excellent service.

 

This year we were at the Good Food show at Olympia, and tasted some slow roasted silverside from the Traditional Beef Company, a supplier we hadn't previously tried. The beef was excellent, and we bought various items. The chap on the stall was the farmer, Robin, and he was lovely. Having roasted one of their joints, we decided to buy our christmas beef from them this year.

 

The delivery was scheduled for w/c 20 December. I emailed them at the end of last week, to check that everything was OK, and I received an email back saying that delivery would be on Monday or Tuesday. I found this a bit odd - how could meat be delivered by courier on Monday, as there wouldn't be a pickup on Sunday. However, I just assumed it would be Tuesday.

 

Lunchtime Tuesday, and I decided to phone them to check. Just to make sure. I was thinking that, worst case, I could probably drive there and collect - but if I was going to do that, I'd need to know today so I could make suitable arrangements.

 

Phoned - no answer. I thought they were probably busy. Phoned later, and got Robin's wife on the phone. Asked about my delivery, and she said they were a day behind because they were snowed in at the weekend.... but Robin is doing the deliveries himself. I expressed surprise at this, and said I had assumed they would use a courier - she explained that normally they do, but they are so remote that they haven't been able to get a courier to come, and at the moment the couriers can't guarantee a timely delivery so even if they got the boxes to the courier, they couldn't be sure it would get delivered in time.

 

Thinking she meant Robin was making local deliveries, I said where I was, and offered to meet him somewhere. She explained that they've borrowed a landrover so they can get off their farm and out of the village, and Robin is doing all the deliveries. Everywhere. And not to worry, my beef would definitely be here by Christmas.

 

It arrived today.

 

What a fantastic couple!

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wow :D , thats amazing

 

does this person deliver all over the country? or is it just local to you?

 

sounds like a company to look for :D

 

cathy

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They do national delivery - but they normally use "next day delivery" couriers. It's only the exceptional circumstances that have resulted in them having to deliver everything themselves this Christmas.

 

Tell me more - I'm just down the road in Oxfordshire

 

Here's their website, if anyone is interested http://www.traditional-beef.co.uk/

 

Just want to make it clear - I (not anyone I know, as far as I am aware) am not in anyway linked to these people or this company. first time I heard of them was when I bought something from them at the Good Food Show.

 

I'll definitely be buying from them again!

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Great service!

 

I won a turkey via the Good Life press email, and supplied by http://www.bramble-poultry.co.uk a while ago and delivery was supposed to be 23rd by courier to my mum's address. Received a phone call from Jen on Tuesday night to say courier could not guarantee delivery so they were doing the rounds themselves. They are in Wales, and decided to do the Midlands yesterday and Suffolk and the South East today. Late yesterday afternoon the whole family (Jen and Mike Rutland and their two children) turned up via all their Staffordshire deliveries with a massive 14lb turkey, complete with foil cooking tray. :dance::clap::clap:

 

I left a bottle of sloe gin with mum for them to take back and she made them some mince pies and Yorkshire curd tarts to eat on the journey home.

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For thel ast umpteen years we've bought most of our beef from online supplier Donald Russell. I love their stuff, superb quality. (We buy our mutton and lamb, and Pork, from other specialist suppliers). We've tried other suppliers from time to time, but have always gone back to Donald Russell because of the quality of the product and the excellent service.] quote

 

I live not far from donald russell in inverurie and buy meat from him too - I love their fillet tails - have you tried them when they are on offer - the off cuts of the fillets and oh boy is it nice meat.

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