well the, the, the, the, the sort of, the sort of background as i have seen it  he never  struck me as being particularly clever or bright  it's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem, and so  he went off to  wolverhampton poly which he selected for, you know, all the usual reasons, reasonable place, reasonable course, a reasonable this a reasonable that,tt  erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now  erm twentieth centu no it isn't it's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver isn't it?