But then came Covid! Following the downturn in the industry I found myself with just one Board role and, in the ensuing lockdown, a lot of time on my hands. Like many in this situation I learned new zoom skills, attended virtual conferences on energy transition and, in my Director role, focused on new business models, debt restructuring and survival.

Outside work I decided to face up to the challenge posed by my four daughters, who believed that I had spent much of the last 40 years destroying the planet and should now spend some time putting it back together again. 

We had just bought a 16^th century mill house in West Sussex and faced a six-month renovation project. In a determined effort to ‘go green’ we dredged the mill pond, installed a water-sourced heat pump to provide hot water to the house and built a rainwater harvesting system.