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It taints your CV as people look at it and see what's gone on and it does put a bit of a black mark against you, says the man who, in 2006, was head hunted by Preston only for his tenure to be brought to a halt 17 months later.

We aspire to the magnanimous firmness of the philosophic sage.

I mismixed some treatment for fungicide on tomatoes, he remembers, and I killed every one of them, probably more than 50 plants. We had to buy tomatoes to can that year.