It all started such a long time ago

….1958… well the end of it!

Second of December it was, the birth of me! Sounds a long time ago…well, it was!

Almost didn’t make it though on this ‘cobbled street conveyor belt journey of my life’ I was a poorly baby apparently given the last rights (wouldn’t have minded if I could have had my first rights and my continuing rights before jumping straight to my last, but hey ho…) with Pyloric Stenosis messing me up for a while. I think that whoever mended me did too good a job allowing too much food intake thereafter hence I ended up as the fat kid in the family, at school and with my friends.

Humphrey grew on me

Humphrey…it had a Crescent you know and I grew up there at no.41 in a rented semi detached house, complete with a small front and medium sized back garden and gated driveway. Very modern for it’s day! Set within a southern suburb of Manchester called Urmston. Was a quiet area to live almost on the border of Stretford, old folk living as neighbours and I guess it never really dawned on me how they felt about a ‘younger’ family living between them. Why should I have even thought of how annoying we probably were, I was too busy being a kid.

Vision

It wasn’t my fault that with the invention of television albeit all programmes in black and white, I got the label ‘Vision’ by my bro n’ sis. Did I really spend so much time watching the tv for them to call me Terryvision or Vision for short? I mean there weren’t that many programmes around in the early 1960’s, although, Bill and Ben appearing on Watch with Mother, kind of carved out a path for me and my future. More on that later!