"I'm fine really" and "I'm nothing special" were George's key phrases. I asked him where he grew up, what he did for a living and how he'd managed to live so long, and every answer ended with one or the other. I learned that he'd worked on a farm, played in a band with the scouts and had always enjoyed a hearty breakfast, but all his replies were poignantly humble. I asked him if he was pleased to get a letter from the Queen on his 100th birthday and he said he wasn't interested in all that. "The trouble with living so long," he said, after the longest pause yet, "is that all your contemporaries die first."

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