Good idea, Dave. As I said some time ago, these battles do tend to limit other people's perception of the combatants to their fields of battle and omits the fact they are real, complex humans with lots of other interests.

So I will follow up your lead. I am 63, still full time employed, largely UK but occasionally dragged in to help with issues in the US branches of the company. A mathematician by training with IT stuff in all its aspects a large part of what I do. My main musical interests are the traditional ballads, with both Child and Bronson at my elbow as I type, but I look wider than that and have presented 'feature evenings' at my main club on "The Hammond Brothers" and "Alex Glasgow". I love the theatre in all its aspects and in the past month have seen The Northern Ballet's version of "Beauty and the Beast", Damian Barber and co in "The Lock Inn", Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band's current version of "Carols and Capers" and Lindisfarne. I was supposed to see a local West Gallery group "The Madding Crowd" last night but my wife was too exhausted.
I have three children: two sons (36, 33) who live in the UK and a daughter (30) who leads a complex international life but is at home with us for the next month or so.

While I consider myself quite well read, there are huge areas of ignorance, especially anything to do with sport (in quizzes my entirely family delegates these questions to my eldest son, and if he is not available we resign ourselves to a zero score on that section except by sheer luck.) I am also very weak on history for various reasons. And I have never got anywhere with spoken foreign languages, but a smattering of stuff I have picked up over the years enables me to vaguely guess a lot of German, French and Italian written notices etc given time.