Stuart Philpot will be starting his own basket weaving business.
- Credit: Stuart Philpot
A district council manager has quit the nine-to-five to pursue an old passion - for basket weaving.
Stuart Philpot, 56, is a former strategic manager and has decided to set up his own basket-making business called Countryworld Baskets.
He learnt the trade from his father and has decided to return to these roots and pursue it as a business.
Mr Philpot said basket making had been a skill in his family for many years.
Mr Philpot originally learnt the trade from his father.
- Credit: Stuart Philpot
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Without them you would have quite a silent and sterile environment. But if you bring animals in, which going back thousands of years would have been totally normal, immediately the whole place begins to burst into life. We know that given time this land will end up with gorse, birch, heather, native grasses and wildflowers, then eventually successional oak will come through and bramble. But the important difference is, because of the animals, it won t just be a woodland, it will be a mosaic. That is the key word. You don t want it to be just one thing, you want a whole host of different things, and you want it at all stages of a lifecycle.