Almost famous

My brother-in-law, Simon Proctor, has his own Wikipedia page.  It's not exactly fame, but it's still nice in an odd sort of way.

He is a composer, and he specialises in composing music for unusual instruments.  One of the reasons I decided to embroider a serpent was because he composes music for serpents.  A serpent is an extremely old English instrument, which is black and bendy and does indeed look a little bit like a snake.