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I asked readers to ask a question. Please keep asking and I’ll answer as honestly as possible. The first lot of answers are here.

Who’s your oldest friend?

Oldest as in the person I’ve known the longest would be my friend Len, who I’ve known since I was five when I moved to the US and he lived down the road.

We lost touch after I moved away and didn’t talk for about 15 years, then when I was 29 I looked him up in the phone book out of the blue when I went to New York on holiday. I didn’t even know if he lived in New York, I just figured he might end up there and I would be out there. He has a pretty distinctive name and called him up and announced that I was going to be in town. Luckily he humoured me and we’re close friends to this day.

Here’s a pic of that house. I helped my dad plant that tree out the front. If I were more organised I would put up a pic of me as a kid outside that house in the summer of 1976, wearing tube socks and a Superman t-shirt with CLIFFORD emblazoned across the chest.

Blogging will be so much easier for our kids when everything is digital. I say “our kids” purely as a  figure of speech. Although that might not be  bad competition prize for the fifth anniversary. No. Nobody wants my bloglets. That was wrong and I’m sorry. I don’t have children with any of this blog’s readers.

My wife read this site once, but as she delicately puts it: “I listen to his views all day, why would I want to read them as well?”

It’s a fair point.

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