A peripatetic penguin, I...

We're natural born movers, I suppose. Since we've been married, we've lived:

• In part of a manor house, just west of Inverness


• In a modern bungalow, just east of Inverness


• In a first floor flat in Perth (we loved this one, but it had some bad memories, too)


• In a much less attractive second floor flat in Chorleywood, overlooking the Underground railway


• In a pathetically tiny starter home in Tring


• In a somewhat less tiny semi-detatched house on the fringes of Watford


• In a very comfortable detached house in a Buckinghamshire village

Odd, but true fact - in all the houses we've occupied in England, we have lived within half a mile of a county boundary. This has nothing to do with anything, but it amuses me.

Although the length of our stays in these houses has been gradually increasing (the first was about 6 months, the last nearly 5 years), we are basically inclined to move house. In all the time covered by these moves, our parents have remained in the same houses - I'm not sure where we get it from.

OK, that should confirm our identities to any passing person who has a vague idea of who we are. Hello; it's us.