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Wow, what a great summer with the Olympics! Between puppies, outside events and covering
staff holidays I still manage to collapse in front of the TV at the end of the day for the highlights.We have celebrated some gold star performances with a Great Taste Award 2012 for our Free Range Dry Cured Back and Collar Bacon. This adds to the two gold awards last year
for our Free Range Smoked Back Bacon and our Marinated Hogget Cannon. Well done, Tom, John and Harry for all your hard work, only 30% of over 8000 entries received a gold award this year.

Here at Waterloo Cottage Farm we had our fi rst taster of outside catering running a stall serving hot pork rolls, homemade cakes and drinks for the Lion’s Sports and Fun Day in Welland Park. As with many events the weather proved to be very wet keeping many people away; however, our large tent enabled many to shelter during the monsoon-like showers. We learnt a lot from this event about gas ovens, gas urns, how much food to prepare and will put that to good use next time we are asked to man a stall.

On the farm, we have taken all summer to get over the rain. We still haven’t got rid of the mud ruts and reseeded the fi eld behind the house; let’s hope we have an Indian summer to give us some time to prepare for next winter. Our lambs from this year are growing well and we are planning to keep most of them to increase the fl ock of breeding ewes. Angus is desperate to start buying his cattle, I am not so keen to increase the workload. I am
sure by the time this magazine comes out we will have a few on the farm.

Tom has been perfecting our handraised pork pies, they look very artisan and taste great. We have been working on them for several months now and have gone from some customers telling us they were ‘horrid’ to absolutely fabulous. The pies take about three days to make and will be ready every Friday. Look out for our open days, they will be advertised in local press, weekly loyalty customer emails and on the roadside signs. Each open day will have a selection of suppliers offering free tastings and there will also be a selection of special offers in store.

Attention all loyalty customers our weekly meat box is great value at £28 (20% discount). You can order this weekly and change its contents each week or have one every few weeks. If not a loyalty customer and you would like to be, then telephone Sally on 01858 467158 or pop into the shop and fi nd out how you too can get this special offer.

We are now open:

Weekdays 8am-6pm
Saturday 8am-4pm • Sunday 10am-1pm
Waterloo Cottage Farm
34, Harborough Road,
Great Oxendon, LE16 8NA
Tel: 01858 467158
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