My Story
Onion
Okay... My story? A very complex onion, I would think, grown in an unusual form, as a result of the many and varied life experiences that have befallen me. For politeness a multilayered onion okay, not some malformed wizened, carbuncle of a vegetable, but rather an offshoot of the lily family, interestingly formed?
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Uprooting
My parents were very busy people, having thrown themselves into bettering themselves, by night schooling, where they met. They had me and my brother, and got grants for further education as mature students, the grants were actually a little more than the wages they were getting, so you can tell we were not rolling about in dosh
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The Macduff Arms
But here we were in Macduff, yes that famous place from Macbeth (Not!) The Macduff Arms was a beautiful pub previously run by a musician and businessmen were behind the spit and sawdust front bar, he could "play the bottles" which meant knocking out a tune on the whiskey and other spirits bottles behind the bar
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The Academy
So I managed to get along better than would have been expected "for such a runt" but I was never really one of “the chosen” at the Academy, I wasn’t any good at football, and I wasn’t from a farming family dynasty or a fishermen’s. Instead I formed a bond with some misfits like myself who were not into the same stuff as everyone else for the most part
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The Sea
Then through the contacts we as a family made, from being a harbour-side bar, I went to the sea first messing about in wee boats of friends, then more seriously, helping out at “The Fishing”, on the small but rugged, North Sea fishing vessels, and then progressing onwards and upwards to a small merchant marine coastal vessel
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The Writing
Presently trying to put on paper an upbeat slant on this world and society we live in, where we seem to be woefully unprepared and without a plan, for how to continue as a race, into the future. I am at the centre of my existence, someone who believes in justice, and I get very upset about the world's injustices
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