The decision was made to sell this fantastic business of ours and so with the majority of the large Highstreet names interested in buying us the deal was soon done. The business was handed over on a plate with everything running like clockwork, all they had to do to carry on doing what we had perfected as the success of the business was to feed the golden goose in the same way as we had to achieve the golden eggs every day that we knew was in there, our hopes and dreams were to see the business that Marilyn had built carry on forever giving our family and many people jobs for life and millions of happy customers.

We would have liked to have stopped to oversee the transition and to have taught them just how important it is to look after the golden goose, but I think my knowledge would fell on deaf ears.

Having said that I believe we achieved a world record for an Independent Baby Nursery Shop and worth every penny, selling a business that we had grown from nothing over 34 years was a great achievement.

Over those 34 years along the way, we had sold 3 other Nursery businesses always putting the proceeds back into building a bigger and better business, but this one was going to be the last.