In your field: Charles Bruce - 'Christmas planning in the butchery is proving tricky this year'

The struggle that has been 2020 has now reached November and I can only pray that it is not going to be as wet as October, which was the wettest October on record in our part of north east Scotland.

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In your field: Charles Bruce - 'Christmas planning in the butchery is proving tricky this year'

The struggle that has been 2020 has now reached November and I can only pray that it is not going to be as wet as October, which was the wettest October on record in our part of north east Scotland...

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