20 years ago my father (a dairy farmer in the Forest of Dean) was among some of the first to try and produce a new phenomenon called Rosé Veal. I remember the virtually valueless Holstein Friesian males and Hereford female calves running happily round the cattle barns, in ocean deep straw drinking as much milk ...
My wife asked me where I would like to celebrate my 40th birthday. My first thought was a funeral parlour – then having accepted my 40th year fate I replied to go to the @merrymonkfood at Isleham, Cambs. I’d realised that astonishingly we had never been in the 10 years of being in the area, ...
I love twitter – my wife hates it! But it’s through Twitter and Sarah (@brays_cottage) that I got to engage and meet with Dr Tim Kinnaird. And my wife, now having met him briefly, hates Twitter a little less. When we announced that Tim would be headlining our Regional & British Producer Fayre on the ...
I have a lot of time and respect for Jay Rayner both as a balanced & knowledgeable columnist and tv & radio celebrity. However, like many celebs I believe that sometimes he forgets that there exists a world outside our capital.
So what made two qualified chartered surveyors give up their well paid jobs and lovely cottage near Bath to convert an old piggery into a Farm Shop near Newmarket? Our friends and family said madness, lunacy & insanity but we like to think it was passion... Which maybe is the same as the former?