1. I make my own bread, eat lots of fruit, like to drink Earl Grey tea, weak and without milk, hate chocolate cake but love oysters.
2. I was once London Junior Chess Champion.
3. I was once Midlands Pairs Bridge Champion.
4. I have been a member of CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale) for over twenty years, having been the founder chairman of our local branch.
5. I have been a morris man for nearly twenty years and am a member of four morris sides, having danced in Denmark, Holland, Germany, Ireland, Turkey, New England (USA) and Lithuania, as well as all over the UK.
6. I have been Captain of Mummers for the past sixteen years, arranging at least thirty performances per annum and usually performing as Father Christmas, as I don't need to wear an artificial white beard!
7. I have a son who has fenced sabre both for Great Britain under 20s and for England adults.
8. I am a Sidmouth Anchor Middle Bar singer, having lost my solo singing virginity there in 1997 aged 51, and I am now a member of three singing groups.
9. I started to learn to play the English concertina exactly two years ago from scratch, having never had any previous musical experience - its frustrating but enormously enjoyable, so why did I leave it so late in life?
10. I like dressing up and during the folk festival season I sometimes paint my toenails blue.

"As I rose up at break of day ..."
Alan