Shairen, like me, is going to embrace this whole new familial adventure. However I do know that if they were to meet, Mike would be fine, interesting, witty, funny, thoughtful, compassionate. He also has his routine - Nick is not in his routine. Not because of any hatred or bad thought - when you have a vasectomy at 26, so you don't make the same mistakes with your own offspring, you have strong, emotional thoughts on family, the past. He found him two weeks ago - a photo of Dad on one of our Facebook pages looked like a photo Nick had seen of him, and he plucked up the courage to get in touch with us all. He trawled again after his daughter was born, this time including all R. He had found the right one a couple of years ago, but dismissed it, as it seemed to be an American profile. E with connections to a Suzanne, a Sharon and a Michael. Nick, at 33, had spent time every couple of years looking through social media, for the R. That's the last time I use that term, even in quotes, to describe him. At 47, I am surprised, but pleased, happy, intrigued - and I embrace the prospect of having another brother. At 47, which is what I am, you can jump on that angry bandwagon, you can ignore it and make it go away, or you can accept that 'Dad's bastard' never chose to be born. I remember the loud tears of Dad, the crying and the hurt of Mum, the phrase 'Dad's bastard' being shouted angrily about. So where to start? I was 14 and I remember the bombshell. Nick got in touch thirteen days ago, out of the blue.

Due to a name shortening, we thought it was a girl, Nicola. An unhappy time in a largely unhappy marriage. We had always known that we had a sibling somewhere, it came up frequently when we reminisced. It sounds like you're saying half a person, or half-heartedly that that is your sibling.

My American brother has never been called my half-brother, even though I can count on my ten fingers the amount of times I have seen him in his 26 years. Two weeks ago I thought I had two brothers. I learned this phrase from my brother, along with the fact that the QI Elves have their very own podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish. I will instead get straight to the point. I can't beat about the bush with a whole paragraph about using it on the hill walk with Is and Katrina, and how funny I thought it was. I have a new favourite phrase, which seems to require a southern American drawl.

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