Some people don’t approve of the time and money and nature of the census. I’m not one of them. As someone who has made great use of the past censuses when looking up my own and Emma’s family trees I know what value they are to have. I shall thereby sending my back, as fully as intended, to be counted. In filling it in, I took a geeky pleasure in noting down my profession of Web Designer. Surely that has got to be one of the high growth job titles in the last ten years! I don’t know what Philip but down for my job title on his his form ten years ago, but if he put Electronic Content Quality Controller then future historians will see just what blip in history and a transient thing that was.

March 2001: Working as Electronic Content Quality Controller for Blackwell Science in Osney Mead, Oxford. House-hunting for a house to buy; likely to be Bicester but also looking at other satellite towns to Oxford. Single, no pets. Have been playing in a local band for just over one year. Looking forward to going to Iceland in a few months time; never been there before, but have always wanted to – I’m nervous about it, having done lots of conservation holidays in the past few years but all in the UK.

March 1991: Living in Lowestoft, Suffolk; doing A-Levels at Kirkley High School, and about to take exams. Hoping to go to university next September to Crewe+Alsager College of Higher Education. No girlfriends yet, and few friends (although lots of people I am friendly with), I am, or perceive myself to be quite shy, and I lack confidence in myself.

March 1981: Living in Lowestoft, Suffolk; attending Pakefield Primary School; best friend is Patrick Harboard. Learning to ride my bicycle; playing on the old golf course behind the house; playing with my trainset, and farm (which my Grandpa made for me); making up stories. I think my Grandpa is going to make me a toy theatre soon.

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