I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a proper qualification before trying to make it as a cricketer,

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

I was very scared when I first started playing with Elaine and Bryce. I was used to four-four time signatures my whole life, and they switch up their beats and timing every other measure.

When the father woke up it had already started.

What's amazing is that when the first Renaissance fair started 35 years ago, and when there was a surge of them in the late 1970s, everyone involved anticipated a 10-year life span for the phenomenon, ... But with the resilience and continued popularity of the fairs, we're still on a growth curve.

The strip was a little more risqué when it first started.