1993
Ice Cream Pancakes
twice at the Dutch pancake house.
Didn't want it to end.
(When I got to 21, I went out for 4 nights on the trot. This was my favourite exhibition – eating Ice Cream Pancakes)
1994
Got drunk in Paris.
Slept throughout my connection
heading to Brazil.
(My second trip abroad was a trip to Brazil which involved an 8 hour stop over in Paris, getting very drunk in a bar near the station)
1991
Saw the Blue Nile live
The first concert I went too
I still love them now
(In 1991, I saw my live concert a scottish band called The Blue Nile. I still love them many years later)
1992
Got drunk at Christmas
at the works do at Laceys.
Ill on Christmas Day.
(The first works do I went to when I was 20 I got very drunk at.
Regretted it on Christmas Day somewhat)
1990
Ardwick was too far
you told them not realising
you would stay for 8 years.
(After not a good experience at two placements at YTS, I thought my third payment was too far and told them so but let myself get persuaded to go there. I ended up staying for 8 years)
1988
After leaving school
you got beat up at college
and on the next day.
(After leaving school, I had no experience of working anywhere and ended going to a YTS Scheme, the wrong one where the above happened)
1989
Changing colleges
you fused a BBC basic on
your first morning there.
(Changing colleges, my second YTS was better where I learnt I.T. Studies and proving popluar with the teachers on my first morning there)
1986
You were buying fudge
when your coach left heading back
from york to your school.
(A school trip to York nearly resulted in me walking back to Stretford from York)
1987
A shop assistant
the careers advisor said
when you said writer.
(Things have changed since this memory, but back then it was expected I would be working in retail or warehouses. I wanted more)
1984
We still don’t want you
your class team to said after
scoring twice for them.
(A early memory of playing in my class football team. It was not the best of times as I never really fitted in that class)
1985
Waking me early
I knew my nana had died
before mother said.
(My mum’s mum, my nana died 10 years or so after the death of her husband, all of us realising afterwards how she simply went to pieces)
1983
Moving to high school
you nearly walked straight back out
after your first day.
(After a reasonably happy time at Primary School, my day at Secondary School was a complete change in tone)
