Gary Webster’s kids and my kids go to the same school in Richmond. One day Gary met me at the school gates at pick-up and pitched me his idea for a film about House Husbandry and asked if I fancied writing the screenplay. His treatment detailed the five house husbands, their five working wives, the five families’ ten young children and the specific contemporary issues, stresses and pressures each family faced. The families had mixed race, mixed faith and mixed social class relationships. In short they covered a cross section of a modern multi-cultural city - London. And the title HOUSE HUSBANDS said it all - I saw the film in my head immediately. Essentially it would be about five men struggling to fulfill a social role that is not, as yet, considered cool by their social peers...

Changing nappies ain’t exactly rocket science... Or is it?

Things used to be simple. The man went out of the home to hunt and the woman stayed at home to suckle the kids and tidy the cave. A few thousand years later and things are very, very different indeed… HOUSE HUSBANDS tells a very modern tale. Five guys meet once a week, with their kids, to bemoan the fact that being a ‘stay at home dad’ while their wives go out to earn the bread, ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. It’s Christmas. Frustrated, lost and confused, this culturally mixed bunch of middle-aged men decide to re-address the balance of the sexes and go on a testosterone fueled adventure to France, kids in tow, behind their wives backs. That was their first mistake...

HOUSE HUSBANDS - One small step for Man... One giant leap for Mankind!