Who is that smiling at me in the looking glass? My reflection, I’m told, a true-to-life spitting image. Curiously, he seems not to know his left elbow from his right. So it seems we are one and the same, he and I, except that he is the wrong way round.

Edmund Piper was born in rural Sussex, England, and educated through grammar school to reading classics and law at Cambridge. Athletics Blue. Since graduating, he’s led a lifetime of wedded bliss and a career in paper making and publishing, moving from old fashioned Organisation & Methods to more with-it IT Director. Now he’s free to enjoy life exempted from working for his salary by his employer and is excused from all household chores by his wife.