Our Great Escape to the Country
Christine & Tony strolling in Hyde Park before the Great Escape As you now know, Christine and I consider ourselves to be in “refinement” (not retirement) but we have most certainly retired from the business that we’ve owned and operated together for more than 30 years. But we think we’ve been “in refinement” since a long time ago - refinements meaning changes we’ve made (both big and small) that have enhanced our lives. A major life-refinement for us was a relatively recent one - our escape to the country, or more specifically, to The Cotswolds . For more than a quarter of a century we had been living and working in the heart of central London. Our property was in South Kensington a few minutes walk from Kensington Palace and The Royal Albert Hall. We lived in a flat within a building constructed in about the mid-1800s. The property also contained our company’s premises. It was a fantastic set-up that worked brilliantly for us. The ...