Ben

Ben Wellham is a thirteen year old trying to avoid becoming fourteen by becoming forty...

He supports Wolverhampton Wanderers despite being mired in mid-Essex because they were the mighty Wolves when he made his irrevocable choice of team

He supports the Rolling Stones rather than the Beatles because frankly there's something effete about the lovable Liverpudlians

He likes most sports and games and tries hard to become good at them but competition is fierce and often merciless. (Just like Life)

Then he realises that a stamp club might provide him with a rare chance to impose his own will on the random tapestry of Fate - where he can be respected under his real name of Graham and where mature schoolboys can discuss important subjects like Heligoland and Tizer.

But ominously he has recently begun to notice mini skirts, or more accurately what they reveal...

And then he began to notice....

Leonie...