My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.

I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.