D. Batho

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Born into a family of merchants, he has always lead a privelledged lifestyle, yet never without the threat of losing it all. His father, the late Gregory Batho (BSc), worked for the first 20 years of his life mediating between the states of Great Britain and the then USSR hoping to work towards trade agreements that would benefit both countries. Alas, it was not to be. With the break-up of the soviet union all that he had worked for - namely increasing Russia's export of wool, red meat and graphite tennis rackets whilst simultaneously decreasing the UK's export of such items, amongst other things - went to pot. The democratic Russia showed little interest in what his father was working in since the playing of ball games was now either prohibited or impossible due to the removing of certain prominent walls (in Berlin most notably) that had previously been used as a practise wall or as a backdrop upon which to paint in the crowds sorely missed and continuously dreamt of in the communist society. Just prior to the end of the cold war his mother, much to his father's discontent, had begun exporting rice seeds to asia and the subcontinent. Although his father was at first apprehensive about such a move (it was, of course, a time when Britain's paddy fields were experiancing difficulties), both he and his lady wife later reaped the rewards. Rice went down a storm, especially in China and what was then East Pakistan. Now, thanks largely to the efforts of his parents, rice is the mos

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