Well, what can I say. I was always good with words at school and preferred English and History as opposed to subjects which required a good knowledge of math. :(
I had a great English teacher (hopelessly undervalued by us boys at the time) and I would love to have met him as an adult and bought him a coffee (or a beer) and told him how much I appreciated his tutelage. His name was Mr. Lennox, so well done sir!
So then, really from around the age of twelve onwards, I began exploring writing poems, songs and plays. I was a big fan of the Marx Bros zany humour and wro more...