Robustly Catholic man, married with seven sons and one delightful baby daughter, home-schooling, approaching a mid-life crisis, too fond of fine food and finer wine, (all of which will make said crisis more bearable than otherwise): born in Liverpool, education *peaking* in Oxford (Oriel College), now working in London (in the Mother of All Parliaments - ahem), living in south Reading, dreaming of rural France and hoping for Heaven...