Wow, give me a chance to reply!
(I am trying to give specific answers to specific questions but that went out of the way as soon as I saw over 100 messages in the thread!)
OK - about me. 35, married, three kids, live in Yorkshire. Private contractor by trade, do lots of work for the police all over the country. I go to church - one of less than a handful of people under the age of retirement who still does where I live.
Methodist born and raised, but my father’s family hails from Plymouth and we’ve traced it back to 8th Century Cornwall. We’ve had a few Pilgrim Fathers in the old family tree. Naturally, I’m interested in history.
My wife’s a postgraduate historian from York who briefly served on the Parish Council but gave it up after getting fed up with the fact they never did anything (if you get the Vicar of Dibley stateside, then the Parish Council here was like that but with everyone in it like Eli in Last of the Summer Wine).
Her family background consists of a Catholic mother-in-law and a Protestant father-in-law from Northern Ireland who served in the British Forces (so no discussing politics at the dinner table there!)
Politics-wise, I’m Tory, as was my dad.
I’m REALLY anti-Unions, having had to (twice) join them for previous jobs and I found them to be wasters.
Cool! Where in Yorkshire? I was in Whitby / Staithes / Redcar last year about this time.