…this ol’ Jurassic can savour the finer things in life with great enthusiasm… decades of tramping across the globe and the privilege of exposure to great places, personalities and events… some uncannily wonderful people stepping into my life at pivotal moments… some outrageous behaviour too libellous to report here, for both myself and others… surviving my own share of dark, dark times… all in all, I consider myself unreservedly fortunate to have lived until now the life that I have… to many it may appear ordinary… I know in my own heart the notoriously fickle turn of the cards of fate has dealt well with me on balance… and betimes, I ponder on the genesis of it all… like millions of others in post-war Britain’s large cities, our family struggled to make ends meet in Docklands Govan in Glasgow… and glimpses come flooding back into my head… of simple…
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