Category: Blog

  • Matthew’s Story

    Matthew’s Story

    Matthew was born in 1997 weighing in at 9lbs 14oz, a big boy considering my wife Alison is small (OK let’s get this out of the way at the beginning, yes of all the women I could have met and married, I had to marry someone with the same first name as my last name.…

  • About Mark

    About Mark

    My father was a factory worker his whole life in the north of England, I remember him saying, “Son, don’t work in a factory. Do something you love, and no matter what you chose to do I’ll always be proud of you”. I took his advice and followed his example into the garden instead of…

  • Three Boys & a Chef

    Three Boys & a Chef

    I’ve had a love of food for as long as I can remember. As a child I’d help my father in the garden, growing every kind of fruit and vegetable you can imagine. The landscape was covered with cabbages, potatoes, carrots, rhubarb, and fresh mint, and his greenhouse full of ripe tomatoes, grapes and marrows.…