While on sabbatical from Debevoise & Plimpton, Ms. Robinson worked as a gardener for Rosemary Verey, at Barnsley House in Gloucestershire, England, and then for Penelope Hobhouse at the National Trust Garden, Tintinhull in Somerset, experiences she found life-transforming.
The Hundred of Tintinhull consisted of the ancient parishes of: Ilchester, Kingston, Montacute, Northover, Stoke-under-Hamdon, Thorne Coffin, and Tintinhull.
After leaving football he worked in the Supermarket business and continued working up until his death from a heart attack on 30 August 2001 in Tintinhull, Somerset.