I had to do six months on the job training and then I qualified.
We logged on to the Revenue & Customs website, hmrc.gov.uk, clicked on "tax credits online" and then "do I qualify?".
But if you broaden the definition to mean "someone who is passionate about niche subjects," then I still qualify.
And then I will qualify that by saying: "For a sense of the way in which I hope the word 'true' to be understood, please refer to Plato's Allegory of the Cave, or any Facebook page at random, or Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, or the twenty-first second of the opening credits of Louie".
"Then again, I qualified in 2006 and won in 2010, so it's not like I'm someone off the street who just got lucky," she said.
Back then, I still qualified for a student discount, so I thought I would use those 12 days while I waited for the discount to be approved.
"Somebody told me you'd have to be a little nuts to take on this job," she says, "and I said, 'O.K., then I'm qualified.' " Ms. Lancaster discovered her planning inspectors couldn't even look up the building code the way the public can.
Then, just before I qualified, my partner was offered a job in Sweden.
"But then I decided to qualify for an international licence so I could take part in the European rally championships.
"Then I was already qualified, so those matches are hard to manage.
