Fiona and Tom Ginnett are not afraid of a bit of hard graft. At their wedding, their friends gave speeches about how the world’s two hardest working people had found each other. And in the years since, Fiona, a former fashion designer, and Tom, a landscape architect, have more than lived up to their reputations.
They’ve had two daughters, Margot and Remi, founded Holte, a thriving kitchen design company, and moved into a house with a sprawling garden, in Catford, south-east London – a real fixer-upper, to say the least. Happy as they’ve been to put in the hours, there’s only so much time in a day, so extra help is always welcome. For the Ginnetts, it came in the form of a robotic lawnmower, the Honda Miimo, which they spent a week trying out on their new lawn. It proved to be as much of a grafter as the rest of the family.