Before this, if I wasn't doing anything I would just be looking after my garden I suppose some people see me as a sort of a leader. I've never done anything like that before but it seems like the right thing to do - it still does. At first I was on my own, but soon a few others came down and we had quite a crowd. I always take a chair with me now and wear my yellow jacket - it helps you get noticed and it keeps you warm.I've got a badge which says I'm not an OAP, I'm a recycled teenager. We had a meeting in the community hall in January about these lorries with their animals and that's when I decided we should do something about it. I didn't see anything about it on the telly - I just heard about it at that meeting and I knew it was wrong, so the next morning I went down to the docks to protest. WHEN you live in a little town like Brightlingsea you don't think of these things. You hear about them, of course, but you never expect it to happen outside your house.

It gives the child's parents an excuse for a good piss-up.IVOR DEMBINA, comedian: As a Jew I ask, what are these Gentiles complaining about? A few drops of water on their bonce - I had the top of my dick removed!. I think for most people the whole idea of a christening is a ceremony of getting people together for a party and having a cake. But I think that it's a lovely idea to have a welcoming for a baby - a recognition that the baby is a member of society and that we make a commitment to that child's life.ANNE FAYRER, cake designer: I'm all for the civil ceremony Most christening cakes we do are fairly unreligious. Some have paintings of Beatrix Potter characters or Winnie the Pooh - we don't do any with storks and cradles any more, all that stuff has gone out.JULIET RICE, farmer's wife: I am having my daughter christened this summer I would like her to be a Christian But I'm not ever going to say she's got to go to church It will be up to her.JAMES GREEN, estate agent: Yes.

Baptism at birth saves muddles later. FRANK WARREN, boxing promoter: I am a heathen None of my five children has been baptised and nor have I. It's up to the individual and they should be old enough to decide what they want, rather than having something forced upon them.SHEILA KITZINGER, childbirth expert: No, because I'm a Quaker. If you are an atheist then I think a civil ceremony is better than not being baptised at all. BRUCE KENT, former priest and peace campaigner: Not everyone is into Christian baptism, but it's important that there should be welcoming ceremonies for new children. I have been to many ceremonies in which non-Christians have dedicated their children to life. Sometimes we pass a candle round the group as a light of life It's entirely what couples want to make up for themselves LADY ELIZABETH ANSON, party planner: Yes Baptism is your introduction into the church. And it seems the current heights of campery in death: the chink of champagne glasses over the corpse, the rendition of "At Last the Witch is Dead," at the funeral, the gloved and braceleted hand which parts the crematorium curtain with a histrionic wave, are all, in their way, bringing the rest of us a better deal when it gets to our turn..

"Actually, most people that I know who have HIV find it very difficult to talk about their death and to embrace that concept. Or they can begin feeling positive and open and become very scared." He points out that not everybody wants to die in a self consciously aware HIV environment, surrounded by other people dying through Aids who have been influenced by counselling. Tony Calvert, who co-founded the Terrence Higgins Trust, makes the point that a different atmosphere exists among those people with HIV who are not closely involved with HIV centres and wards. Marie Curie Cancer Care, a major provider of hospice care, reported that patients of theirs who choose a more high-spirited atmosphere for their death are very few and invariably young. It's hard to know whether a desire to die without formality or solemnity will remain among the generation now in their twenties and thirties when they reach old age, or whether it is just a characteristic of dying young.New approaches are not unquestioned and certainly not for everybody. In fact, sadly, cafs just aren't what they used to be; and the glitterati have long since moved on to smart bars and restaurants.

But it would be nice to see Formula One rise above such a low level of discourse when it returns to Imola this week on a wave of emotion.The governing body does not help restore dignity when it produces something like its historic ruling on the Schumacher-Coulthard affair, reinstating the drivers and thereby establishing a watertight precedent for absolving a driver from the guilt of his team. It's a very healthy thing."It is a common experience for homosexual men living in London to have lost a dozen, 20, or 30 friends to HIV in the past decade. "I'd like to die here, with my partner with me and that's what I've written down. I do not want to be kept alive when there is no point going on I don't see that the occasion should be over-serious.