It appears that i owe some people an apology. I started out listing all the various incidents in my life starting when i was younger. Due to events in my life now i stopped doing this. I am vaugly shocked that anyone noticed my lapse enough to object but to them i offer apology.

When i left off i had just reached secondry school, i shall pick up from that point.

In an all boys school never, ever, be anything that could look, act, appear or be construde as being different. Young boys, in all probability, will not know the meaning of any of those words but will know how to pumell you into the dust for being any of the above. Added to that if you have the audacity to be better at beating the shite out of them then they are at attempting to do the same to you their innumerable friends will come along and redress their error.

So, in the first years of school what did i learn: the weaknesses and general ground speed of the average 12 year old and that i was rubbish at french. Sometimes I wish someone had just sat me down and told me that, to be honest most 12 year olds don't like it when they get punched, gangs of them should be avoided (for a more eloquent account about avoiding gangs of young people go here; [link]) and the meaning of fils de putain.

it would have saved so much time