Maker: Mike and Judy Smales What time do you get up?
Always about 6 am, and at work by 7am. The cows have been milked and the milk is ready to start cheese-making.
What’s your favourite cheese (other than the ones you make)?
Sharpham brie
What do you drink with the cheese that you make?
An very good red.
What’s your favorite cheese anecdote?
When I was working in Harrods for a few days, behind the counter, a Middle Easton gentleman, tasted our cheese and then Yarg and instructed us to put up an order for a very large dinner party, and incorporate 10 other British cheeses to cover the whole spectrum of British cheese, and the bill was about £200
If you weren’t a cheesemaker what would you be?
We are farmers and vegetable growers anyway.
What is your favourite view?
Mike: Probably the area around Old Winchester Hill Fort, or Hyden looking south to the Isle Of White and Portsmouth, across to the New Forest, and yet you can look north at the same time to the Meons and Petersfield and Alton.
Judy: The beeches overlooking the villages of Houghton and Broughton in Hampshire
What’s your greatest extravagance?
Judy: the AGA
Mike: the Audi TT