Richard Farley and Nick de Candole of Hobbledown.
(Picture: Handout)Richard Farley was showing a health and safety executive around his huge new children’s adventure playground, Hobbledown, before the gates opened to the public when he spotted something awry. “I noticed a bonfire was slightly out of control and an adjacent hedge had caught fire,” the entrepreneur explains. “So I used the watering can next to the fire to try and douse the hedge.” Unfortunately, though, the watering can was actually full of petrol.
