In mid-June 2008, along with my Wired In colleagues Lucie James and Kevin Manley, I visited the North-West of England, where there was a fast-growing Recovery Movement.
We travelled to Manchester where we visited Geoff Allman, Director of Spoken Image, whose team was developing a Wired In educational CD-ROM for us. Geoff was kind enough to drive us around for two days, which gave him the opportunity to see some things happening in the field.
We stayed two nights in a bed & breakfast run by a close friend of his. When I headed down to the kitchen on the first morning, Lucie asked if I recognised the room. I didn’t. She told me to look around again, but still no recognition.
Finally, she had to point out that I was in Pete and Jenny’s kitchen from Cold Feet, one of my favourite TV shows. Lucie then asked if I had recognised my bedroom. I hadn’t. She then told me that I had slept in the room that Adam had woken up in at the beginning of the first ever episode. Our host’s house had been used for two of the ‘Cold Feet houses’.
