Excitement gripped Loretta Lovell-Wynthrop; she couldn’t wait to share the news with her husband Percival, who was due home in five minutes. His daily return, after all, was as regular as a metronome. They had been lucky to find the conveniently located farmhouse in need of conversion back in 1992. Still, since then, they had steadily transformed their home into a detached mansion fit for Percival’s high-ranking position in BAE’s Farnborough headquarters. From his workplace to the farm was a 15-minute drive of five-and-a-half miles.
Loretta had grown up on Helena Street, Madison, Wisconsin, in arguably the greenest city in the USA. She lived within a stone’s throw of Lake Mendota and had to stroll only a few minutes to reach one of the nine parks close to her home or the Olbrich Botanical
