Eighteen months ago, Hugh Scale watched from one side of the road as his 40 years of hard work went up in smoke on the other. It was 10pm on November 11 and his business, the Four Seasons farm shop on the outskirts of Tenby, was all but gone.
His wife Jennette, 60, turned to him and said that was it, she'd had enough. But Hugh, a self-confessed workaholic who initially started the business as a side-line for the family farm, did what he's always done: carry on working.
Fire crews left the shop, on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, at gone 2am on the Friday morning. By 6am, Hugh was back at the premises taking orders for his wholesale customers. The gutted shop had barely cooled and already Hugh and some valued friends had organised a temporary marquee to be erected where the timber framed shop had once stood.
