My A-level results were a big let-down. Not quite Disastrous or Shameful; but significantly below what I was hoping for...

[ Previous chapter ] [The Corner Shop: Autumn 2000–Summer 2001 (Three evenings per week)] Toward the end of the first year of my...

My mother said I should get a Saturday Job, since The Garden Centre Job had come to nothing, and I’d sacked off my second paper round...

I don’t remember what (if anything) I was predicted to get for my GCSEs.

I should at this juncture mention The Posh School–mandated two weeks I spent in The Photography Shop in The Cathedral City...

Between January 2022 and March 2023 I wrote a sort of memoir entitled "Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story". I had long had the idea...

I got my first regular Job at the age of 14 because we’d moved from North Wales to The Hog County in the South of England...

I was born in The City of a Thousand Trades, in the West Midlands of England, on St John’s Day 1983...

I’m nearly forty, and I think I’m in the first stages of an early-onset Midlife Crisis—if not a full-blown bout of Existential Dread...