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ME THEN.....
I was the
fifth of nine children, What can I say??, mum and dad didn't
have a TV
This picture was
taken in a village where we lived called Achnamara in Argyleshire. We soon moved to another small village called Kaimend
in Lanarkshire. Kaimend was so small you could throw a stone from
one end to the other. Only a handful of cars would pass our house in
a year. I enjoyed living in Scotland, lots of space to play, forests
a river to swim in and lots of adventure. Every morning I'd get up,
make myself a bowl of porridge and go out to work (I was only about
4-5 years old) I worked on the local farm for Jimmy Robertson. At
about 5am I'd bring in the cows to be milked, help in that and the
feeding, I'd clean the byre (milking parlour) and do lots of odd
jobs. In the afternoon I'd help again with the second milking of the
day. For all this work I got paid 3d that is 3 old pennies, worth
about 1.5p New Pence, that's about 1 US cent a week. After a while I
got a rise, it went to 6d a week a rise of 100% :) ( just try
to get that from your boss today) In In 1965 we moved from Scotland to
Liverpool. The big city was amazing to me and kinda scary. Not a
green field for miles street after street of houses and huge
buildings. Huge wide roads full of cars and lines of double decker
buses. We lived in Liverpool for a while before moving over the
river Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral.
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Margaret Peter Frank Ken Charlie |
Me Now.....
well, at least recently......
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The bit in the
middle is a bit boring, y'know.. school and all that stuff... Ok Ok I'll
say a bit..... I never liked school much, I found it quite boring. I
was far too busy to be interested in school. That's not to say I was
thick or anything, far from it, when I was in school my results were
very good. The scoring system is different from today's but I was up
there. After school I went to college where I learned Interior and
exterior decorating and sign writing. Unfortunately when I finished
college there was a big strike going on and I couldn't find a job in
that line of work so I finished up working in a supermarket (life is
shitty like that, as I was to find out many times) Then I had many
jobs, I built cars, worked on a construction site, drove a taxi and lots
more. At one time I even fitted condom machines in pubs and clubs, that is
work with a great sense of job satisfaction..... just think of all
those happy people
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Things I Like/Don't Like.... Music..... I Like music..... almost all kinds from Classical to Heavy Rock..... I don't much like Jazz, Rap/hip-hop or Punk Favourite bands....
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Strawbs, Styx, Queen, Status Quo, Enigma and many more..... Favourite song...... After a very long time of being at the top of my list of the best songs of all time "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel has been replaced..... I was driving through desert in Nevada scanning the radio for something to listen too when I heard this song, from the first few bars I knew it was something special.... "I hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack I think this song says everything you could wish for someone that you care about. Click the play button below to listen....
Worst song of all time..... "Don't Worry", by Yoko Ono. If you like the sound of scratching on a blackboard you would like this one
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Having been a fan of the books since I was about 12 years old I really didn't think that it was possible to make a movie that would do the books any justice but I think that Peter Jackson's trilogy achieved the impossible. Just like in the book, you can see the characters evolve as the story moves on, Elijah Wood is perfectly cast as Frodo with Sean Astin giving the performance of a lifetime as Sam Gamgee, Frodo's ever faithful servant as he takes on the burden of caring for Frodo as the ring's power grows greater as they draw closer to Mount Doom. Monty Python's "The Life Of Brian" is without doubt the funniest movie ever made.
Favourite TV Programs I don't watch much TV but when I do, I like to watch the Science Channel. My favourite TV programs would be comedy and mostly British.... Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers and Father Ted are among my favs. Undoubtedly the best TV program ever produced in the USA is "The Beverly Hillbillies"
Worst TV Programs Soaps and the worst of those is without a doubt..... Eastenders Oh My God!!!! it is so depressing
Favorite Books The Lord Of The Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) This story is so well written that it draws you into the world of Middle Earth. While reading you will see what the characters see, you will feel what they feel. This book is so funny.... here is a small excerpt where the Babel Fish by it's existence proves the existence and therefore the non existence of God.... The Babel fish... is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on the brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed at the next zebra crossing. Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book, 'Well That About Wraps It Up for God.' Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively
removing all barriers to communication between different races and
cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the
history of creation. from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) |
Favorite Movies
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