It probably was then - spring '96. I knew when we met at the Arthurian garden field party that we had met before, but I wasn't sure just when that might have been.

For the first 22 years of my life, I was a small Jacobean table in a house in Dorset. It was quite a surprise when I was suddenly incarnated as an actuarial student.

(More prosaically, you can only have 20 options in a numerical poll; and if you don't vote, you can't see the answers).