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in the beginning my childhood was blissfully happy! my mother hates children and therefore at every school holiday my sister and i were packed off to stay with our grandparents. annan was a nice place to spend those long lazy easters, summers and christmas'. being the youngest of the grandchildren always had its advantages, and disadvantages. as a classical cherub child "blond over blue", i had an innocent air about me that i used to maximum devastation. however this did inspire great deed of devilry from my sibling and cousins. i am forever scared by being a chip frying or kidnapped by the living dead! born in auchincairn and raised in kirkcudbright for five years, i can't really remeber much. stranraer from the age of five was nice enough, sheuchan primary school began to shape me. i was a shy kid, smallest in my year that is where the above photo is from. these were the years that i 'holidayed' in annan. but in the end julia was troublesome and dad got his promotion and transferred. langholm was our next, and last destination as a family. a sleepy little mill town in the south of scotland that i will forever remember as 'the abominable catalyst'. we moved there in 1985, dad had a promotion to sergeant and the constabulary built us a new house and i do remember the long lazy years of my early teens. julia started seeing stuart, a painter at a border fine arts, a local ceramic model factory. in 1989 my parents split, amongst all the re-assurances there was a lot of lies, but then that is what adults do to kids at times like that. at first it was all quiet nice but turned nasty on christmas day 1989, oh the shit hit the fan! at this stage i was very angry, i was an angry adolescent. confused and decidedly wobbly at times. as usual for kids in divorce situations where everything appeared fine right up to the day they split up i demanded answers to questions that neither parent was willing to face up to. during this time i had great support from my aunt carol and uncle don, little did they know what that would lead to! they helped me extract some promises from ma and pa that would benefit me, none of them were kept. by the beginning of july 1990 the were divorced. in the mean time julia had married stuart. july 21st 1990 my mother married james kenny stark, 22nd july iwas 16 and 23rd july my father got engaged to doreen henderson. but there was no competition! january 1991 my sister had a baby girl, terri-anne, and i was an uncle and godfather. by the end of that year stuart had tried his damnedest to kill julia and that was over. this was also the time that ibegan to grow into my independance, life with dad and doreen was not easy, there were a lot of restrictions placed on me, i didn't take them too well and therefore got a summer job where i had to move out and never went back. i moved in with the people i love the most now, my aunt carol and uncle don. form there i went to glasgow university and i feel i
should just say that i discovered roblz, a some what fun, if insecure at
times, young man, a dreamer and an artist trapped in the body of a scientist.
a would be civil servant of the student representative council and
notoriously bad studier.
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