Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.
I've got an interest in Zimbabwe. I spent a few months there before uni, so I'd like to get back to that.
People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.
Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It's a bit sick, isn't it, people spending all that money on clothes? I'm too stingy. I wouldn't pay £100 for a shirt.
For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.