After reading another thread where Waitrose are delivering the wrong turkey (there seems to be loads of threads on substitutions at the moment) can I remind people there are still lots of good local butchers around.
Not only that, but some of them will do the old 'Christmas club' where you can pay so much a week towards your Xmas meat and then go and collect it at a pre arranged time.
Due to lots of isolating I have not been able to use the one near me so often, and I feel a bit guilty, because the meat is so much better than supermarket meat and is about the same price.
Oh and my local one saves all the ends of cooked meats from the slicer, puts them in 1kg bags and gives them out free for dog and cat treats (and the hedgehogs occasionally).