On July 17th, 1973, I came into being in Newport, South Wales.
So by August 91, I had gained 10 GCSE's , 3 'A' Levels and left Rougemont school with a smile to go to Bath University to study Chemistry...Hang on, CHEMISTRY? Are you mad?
Ummm, what happened then... well my earliest clear memory is my 4th birthday party, which was very memorable because I had a Mr. Nosey (of the Mr. Men) birthday cake.
Pretty soon after that it was off to school - Rougemont in Newport, which had the pleasure of my attendance for 14 years right through to my A level's. So are school days the happiest of your life?
Don't know about that, but I can't complain, I had some good friends there and generally had a really good time.
The music and sport bugs hit early on in life, I started learning piano at 7, and even though I didn't continue past Grade 1 (which I did twice for some strange reason) I kept playing regularly. During my early teens I had
electric organ lessons which, although I sat no exams for, made me a far better player and taught me loads about chord theory and that sort of thing - first big thankyou going out to Clive Wallace. Also I started playing guitar
first on my dad's HUGE Acoustics and then at about 14 I got given my first electric - a wonderful Marlin Slammer, and a practice amp I still use today.
Sport consisted mainly of rugby, playing mini rugby from about 7 and playing pretty much every game the school had while I was there. It took me until the age of 16 and over 100 games for the school before scoring my first try - such is a forwards life.
Shortly after that try, I moved out to Centre for my last few games. I also played tennis regularly and Cricket for the school as well as dabbling with other sports but in January 1985, a much stronger bug bit....
On Jan 20th when I was supposed to be in bed, I stayed up and watched Superbowl XIX . And saw the 49ers take apart the Dolphins, despite the presense of a great 2nd year QB named Dan Marino. After that there was no stopping football. My sympathy for the Dolphins that day
has made me a fan for the last 15 years. You'll find more on this in the more obvious 'football' section.
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