Interview for Club Sandwich

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When we got married, Linda started saying ‘Let’s go to the countryside, let’s get out of London’—anything to get out of London. And she’s crazy, Linda, she’d say, ‘let’s get lost, try and get lost’—which was the total opposite of any other bird I’d ever met, who was always saying, ‘don’t get lost, whatever you do’… So she was like a new adventure for me, bring on back this nature thing.

Anyway, I had the farm in Scotland, which I didn’t really like. I’d never fixed it up at all, I just bought it and wondered why there were dead sheep in the field — you’d go, ‘Ugh, dear me, that one’s dead!’ I never realized that the owner was responsible. It never occurred to me that if you didn’t want them dead, you had to look after them. So, Linda said to me, we could do the place up, take down the old sheds and redo all the walls. Because the state it was in was exactly how it had been left, a real little hill farm that was quite down at the heel.