we’ll give them a hand out at any time. “I’ve got a beautiful shack down at Opossum Bay which has been sort of left idle for quite a few years. So just to spend time down there a little bit relaxing and not go down there and feel that I’ve got to go to work at four o’clock will be good. “I want to sort of enjoy a few years of going to the beach and not having to come back. “Mind you saying that I’ve had quite a few venues in my time in Tassie and each time I get out of it I think this is going to be it and I’ll put the feet up for a month and think ‘how good is this’. “Three months later I’m itching to get back in, the last time I did that was 15 years, so hopefully that doesn’t happen again because I don’t want to get itchy feet at 70.”
“I think ‘what’s going to happen to such and such from Melbourne, who’s going to look after Colin?’ I have a bit of panic about all my regulars.” Whether Baker can completely remove himself from an industry he has immersed himself in for three and a half decades remains to be seen, but there is one thing already firmly on the agenda during his retirement – spending time with his young grandson. “Lucy has produced me a little grandson. He’s two and a half nearly, there is a small age difference between us but we are best mates, so I’ll be spending a lot of time with him. “Also, with her being busy out in the other restaurant, I’ll probably help out there just to take the pressure off her a little bit and we have said to the new owners that are coming into Rockwall
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