Most families get together over the dinner table or spend as much time as they can hanging out at the beach.
But for the Stannages, their bonding time is a little more active. This adrenalin-fuelled family’s idea of fun is setting each other alight and jumping over cars on motorbikes.
“Obviously there is a risk involved, but who better to trust than your husband or your son?” laughs mum Janine, 40, who is regularly set on fire by her nearest and dearest.
Dad Mark, 43, has been involved in stunt work since he was 14, after being influenced by stunt greats Evel Knievel and Eddie Kidd. But getting married and having a family didn’t stop this man of action from putting himself in the line of fire. In fact, he was running through a blazing rugby field for a stunt show when he first caught Janine’s eye.
“I saw him and I thought he must be a nutter,” she says. “But it didn’t stop me falling for him and we’ve been married for 13 years.”
Janine did the commentary on Mark’s stunts at first, then decided to join the action and get involved in high-risk acts too. When they had their son Aaron, now 15, it was inevitable he’d also become an adrenalin junkie.
