Finds time between lunch and a second lunch.
Nigel Fortescue interrupted his walk to lunch to advise Martin, the club’s gardener, on work Martin has carried out professionally for eighteen years.
“I don’t work in the field, which gives me a clearer perspective.”— Nigel Fortescue
His recommendations included moving a mature tree and obtaining a machine he had once seen from a train. He could not recall its name.
“These are hedge shears,” said Martin, when Nigel asked whether the tool in his hand was the one he meant.
Nigel later described the discussion as collaborative. Martin has been asked to supply the technical detail, the costings and the original idea.