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I didn’t bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed
My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail
As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement
By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with
I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the
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