"The buck stops here," he says with a shrug. "I don't do everything, I just like to see the final product." Lord knew he didn't want to get his head stuck into acquisitions and animal husbandry. "And my system works pretty well for us, I think. Hand me the adhesive."

It's not that Hadyn's was bad. It's just that their minds didn't work the same way.

"You'd be an amazing department head, you know." In the Hearts, or the Spades, or..the Clubs.