Likes

I try to keep the things I like simple and within reach every day. Things that really get me stoked include being out in nature before dawn, flannel sheets on cold wintry days, hot soggy chippies, snuggly dogs, eating and sharing food from my garden or farm, my morning coffee, making little animals from clay, growing flowers and arranging them in bunches, mucking about with worm farms, and simply watching my plants grow. I could happily look at them all day.

Dislikes

Some of my choice dislikes include having to visit any big shopping centre for any reason, I find them so depressing. I can’t handle the heat of summer, I fume when I get served a bad coffee and I get super crotchety if I have to listen to radio or TV advertising.

If you could take the seeds from one plant you grow on your farm to a deserted island which would it be and why?

It’s a toss-up between potatoes and coffee. I could survive quite contentedly on a deserted island on a diet of fish and chippies. So, seed potatoes would be my first pick with coffee beans a very close second – if I could have both I’d be sorted!