Jess Warner-Judd and her husband, Rob, are collectors. Everywhere they go – and international athletics requires a lot of travel – they return with a mug, a postcard, a badge and a fridge magnet. All around their soon-to-be-former Loughborough home – new horizons await after a traumatic summer last year – are reminders of the journeys they have made together and races they have run. My tea comes in a Starbucks mug from Berlin; Jess’s mug from one of her multiple US ventures.
The coffee shop chain Starbucks produces different mugs in almost every region they operate in worldwide. There are hundreds; it is a collectors’ dream. Handily, for storage purposes, they are stackable, although the American ones have recently been displeasingly redesigned, apparently. All of this I learn as the couple’s dogs, Bruce and Bernie, run around breezily parading their favourite toys, and the house rabbits, Bea and Bailey, enjoy an afternoon on the lawn in the unseasonably clement weather.
