Being into drama I found it natural to take the role of another person - and absorbingly interesting! One thing quickly led to another. I made the mistake of boasting about my acting ability. I also, rather stupidly, mentioned the fact that after 30 lessons, I had still not managed to pass my driving test. This led to adopting the role of a university student at the other end of the country and taking driving lessons from an instructor who was doing private work and not booking work through their franchise, therefore defrauding the franchisor

Authentically driving round the streets of a town I had only visited the night before, stalling and hitting pavements while knowing the whole 2 hours was being audiotaped (never swear when you're wired!), photographed and videoed by a colleague was probably - at that point - the most bizarre assignment I'd faced in my life. This wasn't helped later on when our office was treated to a two hour film of my driving skills. Happily, it's a sign of the fantastic environment and atmosphere that I could take the mocking and ridicule in good part and give as good as I got; however there are one or two people still on my "revenge-list".

Although I left school some years ago I think I'm lucky enough to have retained my 'youthful looks' and have age on my side. The downside is having to go out on age checking assignments looking like I'm 14 or 15 years old. I am dreading the day I bump into a friend whilst looking as if I'm currently studying GCSE.

At the time of writing this I am currently catalogueing pornography which has arisen as a result of computer forensics work. The unsuspecting user thought that when he hit the 'delete' key evidence of his misuse would disappear. It is being able to provide this sort of sophisticated service in-house that makes the company something special - although the results sometimes mean you need to keep an open mind!