“He lived in the village we were working in and I think he liked what we’d been doing to the pub. He asked me if I’d be interested in taking on one of their pubs.
Alan shook his head and said no.
“They were nothing if not persistent, though,” he recalls.
Sarah remembers it vividly. “I knew they were wooing me. I knew exactly what they were doing - but I liked it. And, more importantly, I liked what they said.”
“I went to the interview,” he says. “But I was still sure I was going to do something else.” He changed his mind in the reception area at Everards' HQ.
“I remember seeing people walk past, up the stairs, through the corridors, and they were talking to each other and smiling. They liked each other.