It was five a.m. when Stephen woke to the sound of song birds. He did not like the voice of the cuckoo and so he had reconfigured the alarm clock on his workstation. Stephen had chosen to get up early that day to put the finishing touches to his Xmas project work which was due in at the end of the following week. The day was Tuesday 4th January in the year 2000. Stephen had travelled back to Aberystwyth the previous day having spent New Millennium's Eve with his parents in Capel Rhondda. It had been an amazing celebration, but more about that later.