‘I was part of the first generation of wives to follow their own careers instead of running a lock side shop (though I did do that for a few years in the 70s), serving teas or being summer assistant to their husbands but when I stopped being an admin assistant guess what I did?
‘The house and garden covered a third of an acre and this part represented about a third of that and for several years it was here I held cream teas to raise funds for four different charities, including the Witney group Against Breast Cancer (ABC).’
Maureen McCreadie