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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

From the North West of the UK, I worked for many years building mountain trails for the National Trust in the Lake District. I lived in Tanzania for two years and the villagers gave me the name quarsan.

I was a journalist in Brussels, Belgium, mainly covering EU politics for New Europe. Now I'm back in the Lakes, working at a Christian retreat.