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Hello, my name’s Michael. You don’t really need to know how old I am, but I’m no spring chicken. I’m married to Margaret. I’ve got a couple of kids, although they’re not kids anymore. I mean, our daughter, Juliet, has just had a baby girl. That’s my granddaughter, Lulu. And my son, James, is a gas engineer.

I’m not very confident with technology. Don’t get me wrong, I can use a computer. But all these iPads and smartphones, I just can’t get my head around it. I mean, my wife’s always on her phone texting and shopping and using Facebook. I mean, just the other week, we’re in the pub with James, and he reckoned his mum was ‘phubbing’ me, you know, snubbing me by using a phone. Can you imagine? Good-looking fellow like me.

Anyway, moving on. I’m a railway engineer. Have been for quite a while now. But recently, I’ve been getting itchy feet. I want to try my hand at something a bit different. See, last year my boss asked me to mentor one of the young guys, and I really enjoyed it. I’ve been thinking about becoming a trainer ever since. You know, train the train engineers of the future. So I need to learn how to train.

See, at work at the moment, a lot of the courses I’m having to do are online. It’s mostly compliancy stuff, but it’s given me a wee insight into the whole online training thing. I mean, not much, man, but enough to make me realise that I need to improve my basic skills. So I’ve been looking around for free courses, which is how I ended up on this one.

And I think I just need to get back into the swing of studying. And I definitely need to get on the digital bandwagon, join the twenty-first century and all that, you know. And I’m hoping this course will help me with that as well. So Margaret, if you’re watching, I’m going to be the digital king of the North.