"OK.. so I'm quite old, but I didn't used to be..."
The odd thing is, I like loads of stuff youngsters like, ie pop concerts, techno stuff..mp3's Snow Patrol, Keane.. even went to a James Blunt concert recently....oops! but I am old...just qualified for a bus pass...my toes are beginning to curl up...and I have made a will.
Early Days...
I was born in Oldham, Lancashire at the end of the second- world- war. We lived in a small end terraced house in the shadows of a large Cotton Mill . Outside my front door were cobbled stones and every morning the mill hooter would boom out, machinery clank, and the sound of clogs echo everywhere, as droves of people, some in shawls and caps, threaded past my bedroom window, to start another days work.
My mother worked in a cotton mill for a while, and my father was a foundry foreman, patternmaker and engineer for Platt Bros., a large textile engineering firm, but also worked in aircraft engineering.
I trained as a schoolteacher and moved to Plymouth, Devon around 30 years ago.