Acknowledgements

A book such as this cannot be written alone, and lots of people helped along the way with ideas and advice. The most important is my wife, Debbie, without whom this book would never have been possible. Thanks also need to go to Geoff Flower for advice on sourdough and brewing. A tower of thanks goes to my long-suffering agent Jane Graham Maw www.grahammawchristie.com, and to all the fab team at Watkins Publishing, who are awesome and so much fun to work with. Finally, and possibly most important of all, heartfelt thanks go to my friends both current and past, the animals: Darcy and Dex, my dogs; Kylie, the matriarch sow; The General Lee, our boar; the pigs, geese, ducks, chickens, turkeys, sheep, horses and all the rest of the gang, on whom we practised our craft and learnt so much.