Trevor's year - Part I

Celebrating Christmas this year:  We’ve got family gathering at home on Christmas Day, my daughter Collete and son Warren, and a couple of friends will be coming around in the evening. We tend then to have a little board game, whether it be Trivial Pursuit or we have a racing game. Something to have a bit of fun.

Collette’s husband's family, the Thomas', came down last Christmas - he's a very bright lad who works at the Bank of England, and his dad is a teacher. The Thomas’s and the Brooking’s paired up in Trivial Pursuit - in football terms it’s like a non-League side taking on a Premiership team for us to take on them with all the academic backgrounds they’ve got.

We were about five or six cheeses down and they need one more but then we had an unbelievable run, and suddenly we were all square with one cheese to go each. Then we had an economic question on the Euro but just picked the wrong option and of course that cost us the game.

So I was deflated for the rest of the holiday period, I’ve got to say. That would have been the biggest cup upset of the lot if we’d managed to beat them.

Favourite Christmas song: I suppose the one that always comes out is Slade's Merry Christmas. I’m dating myself really but it always surfaces at some stage. I got the cassette with all the Christmas songs but Slade is one of my favourites.

If a film were to come out next year about your life, who would you like to play you? Unfortunately I’m at the age now where you’d have to go through two or three potential actors to cover all stages.

A younger one - erm … I need my children to help me out!! I think Orlando Bloom is a pretty up to date person, he’s got a few curly locks that might fill in for my younger generation.

Later on I suppose as an east end lad Michael Caine could be a good one with his Alfie role. He’d get my Essex accent I’m sure pretty comfortably.

So we need somebody in-between, I’ve got to be a bit selfish now, and try and look for a smoothie. George Clooney if he’s got an English accent. He’s quite a good ladies man. I think that’s not a bad trio - there’s a bit of potential there for sure!!