How about Christmas tips?
“I’m not telling you,” he replies. “Taxman might find out. But, yeah, I do really well out of what customers I have.”
Colin was born in a farm cottage more or less opposite the village shop and has lived in Little Weighton, a small village in the Yorkshire Wolds, ever since.
When he left school, he worked on a pig farm, which was later converted into a care home, where Freida worked for 22 years.
Freida passed away last July after 35 years of marriage. He then lost his brother in October.
“Out of the Bradley family of seven, there’s only two of us left,” he says.
Other than sweating in his waterproofs, Colin’s biggest complaint is traffic speeding through the village.
“It’s a 30 limit, he’s doing more than 30,” he says as a car goes past.
“We want traffic slowing down a bit – there’s a school there and there’s a care home here on the left, and the traffic comes tearing down here”.