Not long after he took on a smallholding for his cobs, the builder boyfriend found a couple walking through his fields with their dog.
They had appeared out of nowhere, apparently by squeezing through a small hole in the hedge with a neighbouring property.
As there is no footpath through his land, the BB was perplexed.

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