My standards were set early. I trained as a butler aboard the QE2, then spent years in the restaurants of Terence Conran, Raymond Blanc and Rick Stein — dining rooms where excellence wasn't an ambition, it was the minimum expected. Three decades on, those standards still shape everything I do.

That training led to estate butlering in private country houses, and in 2010 to founding Get Me A Butler — a modern take on traditional butlering for homes across Edinburgh: dinner parties, event service, cooking, housekeeping and home management. Alongside it, White Glove Cleaning looks after a small number of households, some of whom have trusted me with their homes for more than ten years.

What my clients value isn't just the cooking or the immaculate rooms. It's discretion, reliability, and the quiet calm of a home that simply runs well. Thirty years in, that's still the work I love — and the standard never changes.