© Peter Parsons
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Carving Notches on the Family Tree
Nineteen things:
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Both my parents were only children, and I was their only child – yet I had eight half-brothers and sisters
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I built my own guitar
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My father was English, my mother French – they were 2nd cousins
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I love football, but don’t support any teams although I can’t stand Manchester United
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My Ipod has 5742 tracks on it
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I worked for the same company, on the same site for 24 years and 7 months, with five different company names on the door.
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I am a parent governor at my old high school
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I have no middle name
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I don’t like cabbage or cauliflower. Actually, “don’t like” is nowhere near strong enough
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My guilty pleasure, musically, is Dvořák's “Stabat Mater”
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I would love to see and cross the Viaduc de Millau in the south of France
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I don’t believe in God, nor am I an atheist. I just don’t do religion.
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I do love to be beside the seaside.
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Politically I’d go for a free, but fair and regulated, market economy. I’d never join a political party.
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I was once summarily smacked at school for beginning a sentence with “Because…”. Thanks, Mr Winterton
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Because of, or despite, this I am pedantic about grammar.
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Favourite food? Probably paella
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My celebrity dinner guests would be Clarkson and Jennifer Saunders
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My favourite places are the beach here in Goring and the Cap de la Hève  near Le Havre, France