The first Redwings have arrived in Cheshire for the winter from Iceland or Scandinavia. Flocks of them are feeding in the fields around us and flying low over the hedges, their pale grey rumps make them easily identifiable in flight.
I'm 39, happily married and mother of Kate (5 years old) and Charlie (3 years).
I trained and worked in finance for 16 years, but set up orchardcards.co.uk in April 2006 because I couldn't easily buy tasteful and unsentimental cards in my local town - I used to visit John Lewis (an hour away) every few months and stock up on about 20 at a time, and I figured there must be others out there like me who would like to buy nice cards by mail order.
The other members of the Orchardcards.co.uk team are my husband Richard and colleague Becky Pass