Stephen Fry isn't openly gay, he's openly celibate. He once referred to it as being "bi-non-sexual, I don't sleep with either sex".

It's interesting watching these people discover their roots. I've been researching my family history for over 20 years now, got back 9 generations (6 in one village!) with one side and a likely 12 with another side; 1600s and 1700s). So far, not a single one has come from another country, and only a small number from outside the county! I'm sure my story would be mindbogglingly boring for anyone not connected to the family, but to me, it's finding out what I am the product of. Most of my family were agricultural workers, farmers, dairymen, shepherds and thatchers; so much so that it reads like a Thomas Hardy novel sometimes.... my generation is the first to own their own houses, the first to have white collar jobs, the first to have University educations.

We're also the first not to have children in double figures, have children dying before their 6th birthdays, have smallpox and scarlet fever to worry about or the stigma of being illegitimate to blight our lives.

LTS