Is there a really outstanding butchers in Romsey/Stockbridge area anyone?

[Madora]

Just moved here and getting bearings - need a decent (in all senses of the word) alternative to Waitrose for meat.

Thanks.

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patronising?! who me?!

icod - do you cross your hands over when you type? And which one/where in Salisbury?

By the way I am now MUDora

Just outside Andover is a village called Appleshaw with a butchers called Bennetts. There used to be an abbatoir but that ceased to exist and now the meat comes in from a slaughterhouse in Wales. There is a packaging plant attached to the place still.

its excellent quality and fantastic personal service. They wrap things seperately for freezing, cut to size for things like stroganoff or sirloin and take it out to the car. Prices vary, some compare to supermarket basic and others to the top of the range like 'taste the difference'

eve- I have probably nearly killed you numerous times already!

yes cod will honk and holler "OI eve,been to the butchers!"next time,will look out for you on saturday!

hink LOUDLY near the horses head

"very amusing real country lad!
"

shall be sure to hink,we're good at hinking 'ere in the cuntry

aadnthen rev up
Horses like that

hate effing horses

i hate stockbridge
up tis owna rse tbh

codswallop i urge you to go and meet johnny................you will find my description to be very accurate!!

But Cod, you ktiss gavi voe ueplied.

Whatever name you use we can always spot you by your cross-handedness!

And please someone where is CROW?

Iahve never been to Stockbridge, only driven through - I am getting a peculiar impression of it from this thread!

crow is where I live, outskirts of ringwood

thanks ggirl

...hmm... I get 'hinked' at lots when out on the nag!

Crow is between Ringwood and Burley.

Day of work today, just about to go out for a very long ride!

Well, went to JR yesterday - hope the beef is as good as it looks. Have just come back from Romsey famers market - yummy! Thanks for all those tips everyone.

JR's beef met the brief - outstanding!

By the way I am the OP, in a new outfit!

Just wanted to say that we really like Dairy Barn Farm Shop in Houghton. They do rare breed meat and you can see some of the animals in a kind of farmyard area when you visit. If we lived a bit nearer I'd shop there regularly, but we're a bit too far away so we tend to mail order from Riverford instead. Hope this helps!

ooh yes - Drummonds on the corner near Bradbeers/the Hundred in Romsey. they make the best bacon ever ever ever. and everything else is v v v good from there too. love it. get order in early for their turkeys at christmas too

i only got fish from kimbridge farm shop once and it made me hurl. never tried it again...

but i do like the tea shop. me and the blue rinsers, like

madora - just read that youre in lockerley...snap! tis spooky to think of a mner living so near (i am the only mner in the village! -a la little britain...see what i did there?? im pretty funny, me)
would you like to meet up sometime and suss out if we like/hate/are indifferent to each other?? (im fairly new to the area too, btw)

Oh hello nappies! Does that mean that you have lots of small sprogs? How many etc.? Funny to think that I might have already met you..

yes tis odd... bet we find each other at toddler grp on tues and then stand there awkwardly trying to think of things to say... hehe