Biography
Goodbye to School Hello to Work, Part Six
Part one is here Part two is here Part three is here Part Four is here Part Five is here This time: Days off and the new kitchen porter. Tuesday. I was up and about [more…]
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Biography
Goodbye to School Hello to Work, Part Five
Part one is here Part two is here Part three is here Part Four is here This time: Fallout from the lock in and Eck’s sudden departure I was woken by the alarm going off [more…]
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That’s Life, Part 2
My first time in France was in 1963 on an army ‘Adventure Training Expedition,’ aka ‘Think up a jolly which has a ‘ military slant ‘ and have most expenses funded. We were to canoe [more…]
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Goodbye to School Hello to Work, Part Four
Part one is here Part two is here Part three is here This time: A day off, my try at water-skiing and a lock in. Thursday, my day off, no alarm set and I woke [more…]
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That’s Life
I was interested to read 1O210ken’s piece: it is good to read and perhaps learn from other peoples’ experience. I had the same question put to me by my father when I was 15. I [more…]
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Goodbye to School Hello to Work, Part Three
Part one is here Part two is here This time: Working on my own, hippies and the loch. The alarm woke me at six, I fumbled to switch it off and lay in bed for [more…]
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Deborah, Part V
Alone again with Deborah, he recalls, in no particular order, every one of the eighteen funerals he’s attended in his ten years as manager. Some bloody miserable, most just a funeral, one of them, Rory’s, [more…]
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Goodbye to School Hello to Work, Part Two
Part one is here This time: My first day The next morning, I was up at 08.00 had a bath and breakfast. By 09.30 I was ready to go. All attempts to persuade Graham or [more…]
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Deborah, Part IV
“Gavin, nice to meet you,” said Oliver, extending his hand. “You too, Oliver isn’t it?” “It is but everybody calls me Olly, except my wife, but then she is Welsh.” “OK, Olly it is then,” [more…]