He wasn't born in the early 1900s, nor was he educated at Queens University in Belfast, or at Magdalen College, Oxford or at Trinity, Cambridge. He hasn't been awarded the Pulitzer for poetry and although he likes to read a bit of T S Eliot, he hasn't been nominated for that prize, yet. No Nobel medal either, although he is quite humble about all of his swimming certificates. One is for swimming 1500 metres (one metric mile) aged seven. Although rarely a swimmer nowadays, and especially not in the Thames, George lives on a narrowboat somewhere between Oxford and Reading. He has a full driving license with lots of endorsements, a Welcome Host Certificate, seven GCSEs at grade C, Crohn's disease and, at times, very low self esteem.