Five times 15.
Thank you so much.
What wonderful stories they were.
I feel quite intimidated.
In actual fact, people ask me a lot, why did I. Why did I write this book now?
And the simple answer is I didn't know I could write a book.
It took me a long enough time, I must say.
But the book is about my time with David in the 70s and I'm going to tell it to you now.
A little synopsis.
I was born a few years after World War II and lived with my parents in a typical suburban house in a typical suburban town,
Bromley in Kent.
My parents got married after the war simply because that's what everybody was doing.
The government encouraged families and were generous with allowances.
My brother and I used to get free milk and cheap lunches at school.
Both my parents worked.
My father was a long distance lorry driver who delivered meat all over England and my mum was an assistant in the local chemist shop.
I don't think my parents expected too much from me.
I think they thought I would, you know, leave school,
have a bit of fun, get a job and get married and live around the corner.
Well, the swinging 60s changed all of that.