My daily work takes place in a small industrial unit deep in the English Lake District has been described at various times as a busy "Aladdins Cave" of hand finishing picture mount activity. Yet surrounded by picture mountboard , tape, glue,there are numerous pictures of my three grandchildren. There images beam out in stuck photocopies on every wall space every computer.

Many years ago Carters Mounts had a concrete shed at the bottom of the garden. A very small one less than 10 foot square. In that shed Carters Mounts with  a single Ultimat hand cutter was born. As the business , a larger shed was built, still in the garden, near the orchard where during the summer the children could play and the sounds of the dawn and evening bird chorus were accompanied by the constant sound of my efforts with one of the very first computerised cutting machines in the UK.