By Paul Harmer (Women and Wheels Video)

The day had started badly.

I lay in bed on the Sunday before Christmas and casually checked my diary only to see “job – Dunsfold” written in red. You’ve never seen me move so fast. As it turned out, I had enough time to get from London to Surrey. But it was unsettling that the pre-Christmas wind-down had gripped me so firmly that I’d completely forgotten about the commission. Either that or it’s old age.

There were five generations of a very important family (important to me at least, being one of my clients) expecting to see me, so I was immensely relieved to be on the road. The weather was beautiful; clear blue skies and sub-zero temperatures. There was a sharp frost in London which gave way to snow covered fields.

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