Comments on: I’m Backing Britain, 2008

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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:58:53 +0000

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By: Will - ArenaFlowers.com

Will - ArenaFlowers.com — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:26:18 +0000

Glad that I struck a chord…was quite surprised at the response on FB to the update, I must say. First day back in the office after a few days off to chill after 6 months of hell…and all I could see was the BBC trying to give the impression of nuclear meltdown!

By: DBL

DBL — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:14:42 +0000

Supporting local business was easy years ago, what I’m getting at is the ‘local’ businesses are not around as much now. Perhaps we need to visit http://www.touchlocal.com when we need something on the run up to Christmas. On top of the reasons you’ve given above, there’s that customer service level in small businesses that just isn’t in the cloned city High Street anymore … now I am sounding old :p

By: Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:15:39 +0000

DBL: thanks for the comment.

Well, you can’t beat a bit of pot roast beef brisket. Really tasty. I’ll leave the pig cheeks to you. ;o)

For me this is about supporting local firms day-to-day and small British firms (wherever they are) as far as we can. Christmas seems like the best time of the year to do this: we’re all gonna be spending some money anyway on presents and the festivities and I’m wondering how much of this can be spent with small businesses (locally or online) to help them make their way through the worst of the downturn.

By: DBL

DBL — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:09:59 +0000

Oh and can I add I’ve not tried pigs cheeks

By: DBL

DBL — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:08:51 +0000

Just saying the same thing to a relative today, everyone is so scared to spend it’s making things far worse than they needed to be.

There was an interesting piece on Working Lunch today about cheaper cuts of meat that can be bought in the high street butchers and not in the supermarkets but apparently they had problems finding a traditional butcher in London to supply brisket, belly pork and pigs cheeks!

At least good old Morrisons have British Meat on sale but not a pigs cheek in sight, if we all bought British again (am I really old enough to remember this? Only just) things would get better far quicker. We too lost our village butchers (2 of them) post office, green grocers, launderette, video shop and papershop, now we have a Tesco extra and all the big supermarkets a mile away … nuff said ;D