Time to Relax and Think about Diversity
It's always busy here on a Monday as orders arrive by telephone, text & email. Production carries on and then there's picking and invoices before the first deliveries of the week head out the door. Woe betide any of the family who might think of an excuse to avoid this routine (in the past few years, I've missed one day due to a medical appointment). The lads are absolutely superb though and would never dream of skiving off. Maybe because all of us have so much of our energy committed to it and our lives revolve around our business. This morning as we were slicing rashers, I began thinking of the variation in the size of the rashers and especially the free range. You'd think I was stuck in a groove as I regularly repeat that our pigs are not a 'one size fits all'. This is reflected in the rashers. Wandering around supermarkets and especially in our larger towns, it's easy to see why there is a disconnect between food production and the packaged product....