Just who the hell does he think he is!

Who is that Jim Buttons guy?

Born and raised in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire the family moved to Frome when I was 7. I transferred into the first year at Milk Street school which is now opposite a successful brewery. That Frome is home to micro breweries and became hip, thanks partly to Madonna is a long way away from our experiences as teenagers coming of age in what then was a rather sleepy market town near Bath.

I moved away from Frome to Bradford to go to University where I mastered disco dancing, drinking to oblivion, curry eating with chapattis, northern girls and punk music. On the side I learnt about business studies.

In the pursuit of paid travel I joined Unilever and in return for a used Ford Cortina wound up in the container industry and the owner of a small Victorian 2 up 2 down in Market Drayton. 15 houses, 2 apartments, 2 children, 2 marriages and numerous cars including one other Ford, spread over 2 continents later I find myself in a small market town in Saône et Loire, still playing with containers.