My younger brother, Pete. The Man. An oaken, solid chap with oaken solid skills and interests - gardening and landscaping, cooking, good living, painting, guitar playing - and oaken solid worries - plants, weather, slow-paying clients, airline staff and timetables, ruffian neighbors, bureaucracy, and so forth.

I can't work out which I get more emotional over: our reunions or partings.

A host without equal, albeit seen here with suspiciously empty looking bottle.