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Sailing

Posted onJune 10, 2012

I’ve no idea how it happened really, I suppose it was inherited from my dad who always enjoyed sailing, but I’ve always been drawn to […] Read More

Australia, Family, Life line

It’s ok, I got back to the UK

Posted onSeptember 14, 2001

So it was that Osama Bin Laden put an end to my round the world trip hopes, I was in Melbourne, Australia with tickets to […] Read More

Australia, Life line, Mates

911 I remember where I was

Posted onSeptember 11, 2001

On the night on 911 I was passing emails back and forth with my best mate, Geraint, I was just coming to the end of […] Read More

Business, Cardiff, Life line

Worked for Sharpe & Fisher Builders Merchants

Posted onFebruary 15, 1988

When I got back from my sailing trip I desparately needed a job and a friend of mine worked in Sharpe & Fisher, he gave […] Read More

Business, Life line

My first job

Posted onSeptember 15, 1982

I started my career, having left school at 16, as a counter assistant in a locksmith’s shop, the plan was that I’d do an apprentiship […] Read More

Cardiff, Life line

Llanishen High School

Posted onSeptember 4, 1976

Probably the less said the better, I was called Tich because I was so short and in my year there were probably 15 lads from […] Read More

Cardiff, Life line

Lisvane Primary School

Posted onSeptember 5, 1972

Dad’s job brought us to South Wales where we settled in Lisvane, Cardiff. We didn’t know it at the time but Lisvane is a posh […] Read More

Family, Life line, Yorkshire

Guisborough School

Posted onJune 14, 1970

I’ll be very honest and say that I can’t remember much about school in Guisborough, North Yorkshire. I seem to remember that it had an […] Read More

Life line

My birth

Posted onMay 24, 1965

I was born at a very early age in Chester, ENGLAND for all those people in Weymouth who think I’m Welsh. Don’t get me wrong, […] Read More

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