Me & Fleur are sisters so we like a lot of the same things. We share, for example, a keen appreciation of 1970s confectionary (like the funny foot ice creams that we used to eat on Sea View beach, IOW or strawberry jellies that stick your teeth together!), 1980s teen movies (which is ironic because now we never go to the cinema together as I love action films and she'll only watch films that are foreign.) and tidying up (Fleur is much tidier but her flat is a minimalist hutch and my place is rammed full of sails, boards and wetsuits...)

At 16 I based my decision on whether to go to school or not on daily faxes from the Met office forecasting the local wave height. Several broken limbs, titanium pins and thousands of pounds worth of steri-strips later, my choice of recreational activity is still based on waves, wind and speed. The latest plan is to go wakeboarding behind a racehorse on the beach in Cornwall (pictures soon...). This is a more adult version of our bike-drags-rollerskate sport, which we invented in a cul-de-sac in Hayling Island.

Fleur lives away from the coast these days, in London. You can find her in the front row of the Barbican concert hall any night Maxim Vengerov or Evgeny Kissin are performing or in a basement playing pot limit hold'em. She also writes fiction but no one will publish it because it's very 'raw' (not very good). This is who we are.

Grasshopper porridge is a kind of brownie project that took on a life of its own (like the cake mix in 'Sleeper'). We made instant porridge pots because we were always out and doing things that made us really hungry. After being on/in/under, the water I wanted hot food but could never get it together because I always stay in the water until my hands cannot move (AKA the claw). In London Fleur was always trying to find food that was hot and good to eat but didn't come from a chain of shops whose name ends in 'bucks'. Grasshopper porridge started out homemade, we made it for our friends and printed labels with messages or pictures on. The name 'Grasshopper' comes from the TV series 'Kung Fu' that we love almost as much as 'The littlest Hobo'. Actually, Fleur loves it and I think it is rubbish but we couldn't call the company 'Bagpuss'!

It turned out that many different types of people enjoyed our porridge and asked to buy it so we said ok and started selling it to cover costs. Nearly a year later, we are still selling it except now we are making and developing more flavours and have big plans. Now making Grasshopper porridge is our job, which is a very happy and surprising thing for both of us.