My primary school years being over forty years ago, it was obviously a time where electronics of any sort were unknown in terms of being used for entertainment. Obvious exceptions being tv and radio but these things weren’t something kids took to school and even if we’d wanted to, they were generally expensive or just…

Those early years of school  provide a lot of memories, many of them revolving around cutting colourful strips of plasticine carefully with plastic scissors then creating little clay figures. Unfortunately most of the figures ended up as dark brown balls as the colours got mixed together and when said figures never turned out as hoped and…

Before I go further into my own history, I should give some background as to my other immediate family, in this case my parents. My mother, at least by the time I was born was a full-time mother. At some point prior to this she worked in a local shop in Wales called “Lipton’s” as…

Although I stated that being turned off drinking milk in those early years of school was the only major negative long term event I remember in terms of things that had an effect on me for years, it wasn’t exactly true. There was a second one and it was “short trousers”. In the winter, when…

As far as the area I lived is concerned in the early years, as I may have already mentioned, it was primarily a steel working town in between the two main cities in Wales. The capital, Cardiff was about 30 miles away while the second biggest; Swansea was less than 10 miles. Such was transport…