View Kent Wildllife Trust's range of gift ideas for Christmas from sponsoring a dormouse for £10 to a Highland cow at £30. You can also dedicate trees and sponsor precious wildlife habitat.  Visit www.ethicalgiftideas.org.uk for more information.

You could also buy a gift membership to the Trust for any wildlife enthusiasts from as little as £28 for a year. Visit www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk now or telephone 01622 662012.

Both ideas are a fantastic way to do your christmas shopping and help Kent's wildlife at the same time.

It has been a little while since my first post, so it is time for an update.

Sausages

At the beginning of this month was British Sausage Week! For British sausage week we entered the BPEX sausage competitions to see how our sausages faired with the rest of the country. The results were fantastic, out of seven sausage varieties entered all seven received gold awards and further to this we won the legendary British banger category!

But the best part was being crowned British Sausage Champion 2011. Making our sausages the best out of around 300 entries! So we were happy to celebrate national sausage week with pride this year! We also got to meet Noddy Holder in the process!

Christmas

Christmas is getting ever closer and we are already seeing a huge increase in footfall and orders for the Christmas period. All hopes are on this being a really good Christmas for our stores and all of Kent's high-street stores.

Our legendary Christmas hampers are also back on sale this year so if anyone is looking for a great bundle of food for the Christmas period check out our hampers online or in our stores.

http://bit.ly/Christmashamper

Hope everyone has great trade and prosperity over Christmas!

J.C Rook & Sons