I want to be a 'Maundy man'!
I have a confession to make - actually three confessions! Firstly, I am a lapsed numismatist. Before you dig out your dictionary of theology or start worrying about what heresy I've become embroiled in (this time?), 'numismatist' is the term for a coin collector (quite possibly you knew that already). My interest in coins began when I found a tray of assorted foreign and old coins in my dad's garage (which had enough hidden recesses to hide various long-lost artefacts - the ark of the covenant, Shergar in a horsebox and Elvis Presley in a suspended animation pod could all be there waiting to be unearthed). I understand that those coins were collected by my maternal grandfather when he walked the streets of Belfast as an insurance agent, receiving payments door-to-door. I was fascinated with these items of living history. I bought coin albums, sorted out my small collection and even acquired a few additional specimens (family holidays in England i...