Batch Baby
Two of the best take some time to talk about working together and juggling.
Can you juggle?
Tom: No I cannot
Saskia: I can’t juggle but fun fact, I did grow up near a family of circus performers and was in a youth circus group and used to be able to juggle. My dad used to juggle and it was the lamest thing ever, it was one of his party tricks. He used to juggle baton, stick his tongue out in concentration and I remember being embarrassed most of my childhood about him doing it.
Saskia’s previous circus life lives on in this single image
What category of business expense does Wanda (your dog) come under?
Tom: She is an unwanted head of security
Saskia: Wanda actually comes under no category of expense but if I had to put her under a category it’d be employee.
What’s your earliest memory?
Tom: Going with my grandad to buy a comic book when we were in Perth, Australia when I was maybe 3 or 4.
Saskia: I do vaguely remember when I ran away from home. It was when my mum went back to work after having my younger sister so I must’ve been like 3 and a half. I was absolutely fed up with my sister crying so I took myself off to go and find mum at work. I walked down the road to a hospital and I remember I got picked up by a policeman who gave me a lollipop. A nurse or someone working there must have seen me and thought ‘what the hell?’ and called the police who then gave me a lollipop.
What is the funniest thing Tom has done whilst on shift?
Saskia: Okay this one is hard because he does a lot silly things. The first one that came to mind was when he went out drunk with a friend, came home at midnight, tripped over shoes in the hallway and knocked himself out. He gave himself concussion. Then he came into work two days later and was so dizzy that he had to sit down and fell off the sofa in the office.
He also put a straw in someone’s flat white the other day without thinking. That’s a more recent memory.
What do you prefer: tennis, skateboarding or pouring flat whites and why?
Tom: I’m only good at one of those things and that’s tennis. But I have PTSD of being a tennis kid when I was young. So I’m going to say skateboarding.
Where’s your most treasured place in the UK and/or Europe?
Tom: Erm probably it’s either Dundee in Scotland where my mum lives. Or Barcelona. That’s where me and Saskia used to live. Or even maybe the south of France for holiday.
What’s the one thing you wish you’d invented?
Tom: Haha a hangover cure. Or like a functional website that roasters can put their coffee beans on and people can access it and go through multiple roasters at once. That would make my life easier! Instead of having to go onto different back end stuff.
What is your favourite thing about Saskia?
Tom: This is a very dangerous question…she’s very kind. I think that is what she would want me to say. It is the truth, she is very kind, I’m just trying to work out what the correct answer is because if I say that’s she’s good at making ramen, that’s not the right answer…but she is very good at making ramen. You could say she’s got the biggest heart in the world.
