Sunday, 10 May 2020

Today is Mothers’ Day but we had made plans before we realised this. Because of the rules we cannot have family travel to visit so it was not a problem. Our lives are pretty good so cards and telephone calls, whilst not the same as a visit, are ok. I posted the Cole family card on Thursday. The John Knapper jnr. family card arrived Friday (by snail mail and it arrived!). Adam and Guler’s arrived yesterday. Adam’s is of his own work based on his ribbon series.

This morning was full-on packing the meat as the butcher cut and processed (sausages). It was really, really cold which is good for packing meat as it stays cool and there are no flies. Russell (the butcher) and his partner Di live at the end of the road in the next valley. Di grew up there and took over the piggery her father had established after fleeing Germany after the second world war. They devised and run our community Fish & Chip night and are really great people.

Meat came up really well despite being hung for only one week. The marbling in the steaks is very good and was a surprise given our cattle are pasture fed and not grain fed.

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