This website is not an opportunity for me to showcase a hidden talent or inflate my ego. Quite the opposite. I don’t rate myself as a writer but it is something from which I have drawn solace over the years. A few people have asked me to set up a blog or a webpage for a while so I’ve done just that. Rather than clog up peoples Facebook feeds they can dip in and out as they choose.
I suppose if anyone is reading this who doesn’t know me, and as I can come across as opinionated, I should give a brief précis of what I have done in my life to this juncture to make me that way.
Career wise I have done many things. I worked for 16 years as linguist in the RAF, reaching the rank of Sergeant. I’ve been criticised for talking too often about my military links but I make no apologies. I served with pride and regret nothing from my time served. It was a huge part of my life and one that required dedication and integrity. I gave all I could.
I have also worked as a Civil Servant, a pensions administrator, a butcher, a bouncer and assistant manager of a pub. I have endured unemployment as recently as last year and I loathed that feeling, one I can never allow myself to return to.
I have been an accomplished sportsman, as a junior footballer before injury ended my dream and later in life as a scratch golfer. I haven’t picked up a club in five years and my walking these days sees me with a backpack as opposed to a bag of clubs.
I have battled with my image all my life, and have been the victim of self doubt when I needn’t have worried and confident when I had no right. I have and continue to battle my weight and will always teeter close to the self destruct button, but never close enough to press. I have known elation and I have known despair and would rather endure either than an emotional status quo that would see me die inside.
I have loved and I have lost, I have been hurt often but torn apart only once, and recently, but still believe in the fairy tale ending. Whether I will be the Prince or the pumpkin I will leave up to the hands of fate but I know one thing, I would rather have worn my heart on my sleeve than never risked anything.
So, if you enjoy some of the things you read or can take something from it then I will be happy. I have lived at times an extraordinary life but during those times I never lost sight of the fact I have nothing to mark me as such, I am just an ordinary man.