In my early twenties I started studying. I had been a mediocre student who l left school at 16, admittedly with a diploma called The Cambridge Overseas School Certificate. Then I started work doing an office job with an insurance company, started dating and boozing and all the other things a young guy growing up in the 50's and 60's did do.
In 1961 I was called up - drafted as Americans say - into the Army. This br more...