I trained as a TV Repair Technician sometime during the last ice age, when women just didn't do that sort of thing, so I couldn't get an apprenticeship as a car mechanic. I've also been lead guitarist or drummer in various bands, a passionate motorbiker, artist, organic gardener, touring cyclist, animal lover and a wide variety of other things. I've had a chronic neurological illness for about 30 years, which keeps me mostly bedridden and gets in the way of everything I want to do, so any Ins…