Douglas Robertson

He works on a farm, but he's happy working there as a farmer.

Sandy's an engineer.

he works in engineering and still working to this day but we all have that attitude that was my dad's attitude about when we sail around the world that nothing we've survived worse than this and nothing can really shake us you know we're a bit unflappable when it comes to discussing things

Whether it was a situation they put themselves in... To me, it seemed impossible that we would survive the day.

Let alone what was to come.

You know, they never got over it.

They never got over it.

What did happen?

I was born in Staffordshire, in the middle of England, to a Scottish father and an English mother.

They themselves were professionals, worked in Hong Kong, all their adult life, Far East.

And I think they'd sort of made up their mind.

They wanted to come back home and settle back in the UK.

But Dougal had, my dad had had enough of the sea.

He'd been all his life and during the war at sea.

And my mum was a nurse and a midwife, a qualified midwife, and a farmer's daughter from a large farming family.

And for some reason,

No, not only to them, and we cannot ask them now, they decided to take up farming in the UK.

Well, it was the only life I knew to start with.

I always thought I was going to be a farmer when I grew up.

And I think we loved it.