I'm married to Trudy ( we met at the Southern): children are David, a self-employed hotel consultant living in Berlin, and Dawn, who has mild cerebral palsy and learning diffculties but copes very well and works part-time in the local Tesco store.  Our lovely granddaughter Lia is due to have a sister in January 2011.

After an arthroscopy of my R knee in 2008, my consultant said I should never jog again or walk on rough terrain.  I was delighted to write to him after climbing Scafell Pike in 2009: he felt this was 'miraculous'.