By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson
Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:35:25 +0000

In reply to Mike Lynch.

I was born in the 1940’s in England in a mining town, oh life was such fun there. I left school at 15, got a job in a shop that looked like Arkwright shop in Open all Hours, I think they modelled Granville on me. I bought a shitty little house in a shitty little street in a shitty little town. I got a job in industry and gradually got a better house etc, etc. It took 50 years of work to get nice house in a nice street in a nice town and yet young people say, “Aren’t you lucky”!! If I wasn’t in my mid 70’s I’d punch them. The young people I know want to go into a great house in a cool part of town. They’ve come straight out of Uni with a degree and they want it all, now. By-the-way, in my 20’s I had a black buddy who I used to work and socialise with. He wouldn’t go to dancers though, he told me “Sorry mate but I don’t have a sense of rhythm”, that’s another stereotype smashed