My name is Bernadette Lynn¹, and I am married to Jim Lynn who wrote most of this site and who is the only one of the original TDV team still working on H2G2. As a result I am also the only sub editor who was subbing before Tomorrow's World.

I have three beautiful daughters; Charlotte, Isobel and Emily, and a lovely son, David; my firstborn son, Alexander, died in 1998 when he was twelve days old.

	Alexander

We took Charlotte out of school four years ago to home educate and have been enjoying it ever since; Isobel and David never started school and Emily won't. It has rapidly become a way of life and thinking that we wouldn't change for anything.

I play the clarinet² and recorder³, and own a saxophone and a piano accordion⁴. I conduct my Church choir and from time to time have been asked to sing at weddings (but not often enough, since I love singing but usually can't since I'm too busy waving a stick). Along with the rest of my family I have written and performed puppet shows - we used to do them for fetes and parties and suchlike - and I enjoy needlework and painting (among other crafts).

I have been known to make and repair violins⁵ but my varnishing isn't very good.

I have five sisters, and five brothers-in-law, along with eight nieces and two nephews. The younger nephew was born within an hour of Isobel. Luckily he was born after her; he was due (supposedly) six weeks after her, and with the frustration of going two weeks overdue it would have been the last straw if he'd come the weekend before as he nearly did.

James has three sisters too, one of whom has two daughters. David is a bit out-numbered on both sides.

Mary-Anne (eldest sister.)

Miriam (youngest sister.)

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¹ nee Willmott
² A and Bb
³ I have a sopranino, descant, treble and tenor, and used to play (someone else's) bass and C great bass in a consort
⁴ Out of both of which I can just about get a tune
⁵ I did it for four years at the London College of Furniture.