You’re fired!

I’m not up on blog etiquette and have just noticed I’ve jumped straight into the ramblings of a mad cheese maker without any warning as to who I am or what I do. I’m Louise, I work in my family business, The Swaledale Cheese Co and I will be filling you in on what we get up to and the history of how we came to be. Mum and Dad started the business around the same time as I was born and I’ve been involved most of my life, whether it be messing up pile of filing as a toddler or earning my first wage as a teenager. I was lucky enough to be offered a full time job as trainee cheese maker after college although I didn’t see things as such back then. Being 20 I worked out that 25 grand a year and a company car where mine by rights. So I entered the office in an Alan Sugar ‘The Apprentice’/ Dragons Den style pitch my proposal and left with my P45, ink still damp and a little confused as to what had just happened. After a stint in a pub, I realised that I was ready to join the real world and came back with my tail between my legs ready to graft. And by gosh has Mum made me graft!

Best go get some cheeses waxed,

Louise