Grimsby has been my home for forty years.  If I write with a southern accent, it comes from growing up in Reading.  I lived for some years in Milton Keynes opposite the works which built carriages for royal trains, then in Kerpen-Horrem, which opened Europe’s first carbon-neutral station in 2014. I’ve been an active member of Grimsby Labour Party since 1979, welcomed straight away and still finding friends there.