The Butchers Wife

🎉🎉PEEBLES SHOW🎉🎉
IT’s TODAY……
Great day out, you’ll see the best of livestock, hopefully come away with confidence as consumers of Scottish produce that we are really good at what we all do in putting food on our plates💪💪 & of course there is LOADS MORE STUFF to see & do……..Free shuttle bus Peebles & Innerleithen too👌

SORRY GIRLS🐔, you ain’t comming🏍️☀️you’ve got eggs to lay!!
Thankyou to our lovely customers who have donated to this fantastic animal charity❤️❤️

HEADING OFF on your next BIG ADVENTURE😳
Mind & pack your sandwiches😁😁🏍️🏍️
The best of Forsyths ham & some of our multiseed bread👌
Cattle this wk;
3 x hefs all from Learielaw

HEADING TO PEEBLESSHIRE JAC STOCKJUDGING @ HATTONKNOWE FARM tonight?? You’ll be getting a guid pie👌👌

A RUN UP TO LEARIELAW this morning, this beautiful farm sits surrounded by the city, airport✈️, motorway🚘….producing the best of livestock & arable year round. Coffee with Margaret while Walter finished his combining for the day b4 the rain came💦 & then a wee walk round the ‘coos’. Sheds seem quiet atm, with a lot out in the fields, but they thankfully have quality cattle avail to us every wk, providing the consistency our business requires.

THE SCOTTISH BORDERS…
Just stunning today,all those wee roads down to the Chain Bridge via Coldstream(drats,the cafe Honey Farm was shut, i’m talking cheese scones, cream cheese & carrot chutney😃😆)& then back up via Duns (shop roof related) & thankfully lovely cafe garden centre. If you can, get yourself out, the farmland down round Kelso is bursting with life, beautiful livestock, heather comming into colour,golden fields …& today we even watched ospreys high up in the sky. You just want to bottle days like today🥰
Cattle this wk:
2x hefs Learielaw
Hef Whitrighill 574kg (v pleased to get this hef as a lot of ones too heavy for us y’day)

☀️☀️BLUE SKIES in Peebles today☀️☀️
If you’ve recovered from all the excitement of y’days OLYMPIC GOLD /Scott Brash & team🏆 might be time to chill with a bbq & a few tinnies😁

AMAZING…..
Well done Peebles own Scott Brash & all the team🎉🎉 FANTASTIC🥇🥇🥇

It’s GOLD for Great Britain!🥇🇬🇧

A truly unbelievable display of jumping. 3 jumping clears, 2 times faults and the team of Ben Maher & Dallas Vegas Batilly, Harry Charles & Romeo 88 and Scott Brash & Jefferson could not be caught!👏🏻

From POSH nosh to ‘GET THAT DOON YER’ nosh
TOMAHAWK🥩….bit fancy i know, BUT…..this fantastic Scottish beef gave us 3 meals💪 A birthday steak dinner (2 big steaks between 4 of us & lots of yorkies, chips & veg) sandwiches the next evening for 2 & finally stovies last night(plenty for 4) ohh & even some wee gristly bits for the mutts🐕

ANOTHER BIG SHOUT OUT for the WEE CROOK , last time it was super tasty cheese scones at this community enterprise, today it was coffee cake😁😁, mind if you’re on the Moffat rd👌👌
Cattle this wk;
2x hefs Learielaw
Hef Bee Edge (bred up in lovely Speyside)

BANCHORY SHOW 2024
Well, it was just a FABULOUS DAY👌☀️
Such a friendly, well put together show, very compact so no having to treck for miles,cracking livestock, lovely trade stands, great catering & so much more.A bit of a ‘drama rama’’ start to the day, Anna was meant to be judging a cattle class, but called me as we were driving up @ 6.30 am to say she’d been up all night, really sick…..such a shame as she was so looking f/d to it, but hey,Mum got the job😁 Such good quality cattle & a super nice team of stewards🥰 Another show, another shining example of why we can have confidence & pride in our Scottish farming industry. Thanks to all the teams & exhibitors who make these shows possible🥰
Here’s a wee share of a fabby day❤️

THE WEE CROOK cafe is OPEN🎉 Lovely coffee & toastie if your’e out on the Moffat rd ? Handy stop for the 🏍️🏍️’s

OOOOHHHH…. This LEARIELAW steak is AMAZING….gotta go😁😁

JUST MADE…
Tomato & beef sausages…
These ones are also GF👌

OUT & ABOUT 🏍️ up over Talla/Meggat, along St Mary’s Loch & home via the Paddyslacks & Innerleithen. Glorious afternoon & be it up on the hills or down in the valleys, its livestock that really enhance the landscape for me, changing with the seasons but always adding that extra wee bit of interest👌🐏🐑🐂
Cattle this wk:
Hefs x 2 Learielaw

TORTURE……out delivering these, fresh oot the oven😵‍💫They’re going to miss one aren’t they ??🫣🤗

MIGHT NOT BE A SCORCHER this summer, but we’re still going places, so sandwiches & picnics are a great option to make up @ home, here’s our favourites😍

SO MUCH NONSENSE about ‘meat free this, meat free that’ often spouted by the very same muppets who’ll be jetting off on holiday, heading to a music festival, but hey, thats ok, we eat ‘plant based’😆 but just look around you, there is every good reason to eat beef & lamb produced in this country💪👌Down to Longtown via Moffat, took a wee rd off the Hawick rd that took us up to Eskdalemuir & out@the Gordon Arms, over Paddyslacks & home to Peebles. Great stock out in the fields & hillsides👌Considering the awful events in Ukraine today, its even more important to defend our ‘food security’.
Forsyths cattle today;
2 x hefs Learielaw

THANKS ❤️SO MUCH SUZI ❤️for being such a fab member of team FORSYTH for nearly 15YRS, your last day in the shop today, a very Happy Retirement, we’re all going to MISS YOU🥰🥰

🏍️VROOM VROOM🏍️
The HARLEY BOYS are in toon…
Pleasure to meet these guys(& gals) & their super gorgeous machines, some beasts in amongst them(& the bikes were nice too😉😆) CALLUM dropped off some freshly fired pies, went down a treat❤️
Safe travels.

GOT TO share this beautiful walk i had y’day in the Scottish Borders❤️ & of course its productive farmland. I’ve driven over my fav Yair rd to & from st Bs mart for yrs & looked down & thought ‘ there must be a lovely walk along the river’ well..there IS❤️👌Just fabulous, flat, well maintained track, fields on one side, river on the other.This stunning landscape is working away providing us with food & leisure , just as it should be. Everytime we buy ‘Scottish’ this is what we’re supporting💪🐂🐑🚜

TURNING A NEGATIVE into a POSITVE😁
When an Edinburgh customers bread’s missed off their order, well, you hop on your bike🏍️ & deliver it👍What a good excuse to take a run up toon y’day & park up on George st for a lime n soda, still a bit chilly but sunny☀️☀️ Good to get a bit of city riding🏍️ practise in….gotta have your wits about you😆Thanks to Anna for going to the mart today & despite a small show, buying a good solid Penston hef.
Cattle this wk;
Hef 578kg Penston
Hefs x2 Learielaw

Great Place👌for your pooches!!🐶🐕🐕‍🦺

OPENING & WINNER OF TRIAL SESSION.

The grass has been freshly cut ( we are trialling a longer piece in the middle for lots of sniffing for the pups) the water butt filled, poo bag dispenser in place and poo bins positioned.

We are good to go and the facility to book will be switched on first thing tomorrow morning, with the first booking being Monday 1st July.

A massive thank you to everyone who liked and shared our previous post - if John Wilson could please get in touch we will arrange a free trial session, at a time of your request for tomorrow - Well Done 🎉🎉

HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS GORDON🎉🎉
Gordon is one of the most dedicated & enthuisiastic people i know in our industry, always ready to help & offer advice. Lets be honest, any man that organises & takes 5 ‘butcher gals’ on a trip to N Ireland has to be s’thing special (or bonkers🤣) 🎉🎉

SUPER TASTY, great value family meal👌
I’ve popped on the recipe from a Spanish fb friend (excuse the slightly strange translation!) Basically you’re layering chopped ham, some gently fried onion, grated /slices of cheese , thin slices of just cooked potatoes & pouring over some cream, topped with grated cheese & into the oven until golden & yummy😁
Would work with chopped up cooked chicken & crispy bacon pieces, maybe some chorizo?? It’s really nice…..just ask Mike😁
Cattle this wk;
2x hefs Learielaw

THOSE MAGNIFICENT PEDIGREE cattle@ The HIGHLAND SHOW last wk, Belted Galloway’s, Highland, Shorthorn; you name it, & then we have the ‘Commercial’ classes? These tremendous cattle are not bred primarily for their beauty, (shape of head,horns, colour etc) but for their viability in the food chain ( carcass quality,live weight to dead weight return etc, basically eating quality & profit,over breed specifications)They include Charolais, Limousin, British Blues, but are most often a mix of breed.Our weekly cattle come from this group, so I enjoyed watching the fab cattle in the ring. Our stockmen produce such good cattle, not only here all glammed up but wk in wk out as you can see from this picture of our chiller on Friday, just our regular stock👌

GET the word out there👌

🌟 QMS is on the lookout for passionate ambassadors to spread the word about the benefits of Scotch Beef, Scotch Lamb, and Specially Selected Pork across Scotland! Ambassadors will take part in a variety of activities, including farm events, cookery demos, and classroom sessions.

Tracy Martin, Health and Education Coordinator at QMS, says, “We’re looking for enthusiastic individuals who love agriculture and enjoy working with young people.”

This is a paid role with comprehensive training provided. Interested? Find out more and apply by 22 July: 🌾👩‍🌾👨‍🍳 https://ow.ly/szPj50SkYk5