My idol is Beatrix Potter!

I have always loved Beatrix Potter from when I was very young and have visited Hill Top a couple of times throughout the years. She was so much more than just an author and illustrator! She studied and painted fungi which led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. After buying Hill Top with the proceeds of her first three 'Little Books' she became a farmer and an advocate for preserving the unique hill country of the Lakes. Throughout her later life she would buy tracts of land and farms to prevent them being built on or ruined by roads. She was a prize-winning sheep breeder of Herdwick sheep, the local breed of the Lake District fells, and won many awards. She was an incredible woman and I believe if I had known her we would have got on brilliantly as friends!