Telstales

Category: starters, early days

  • Fractions

    As I sit here on Thursday 5th December 2024 I realise I am now 66 and 3/365 years old. The quiet of the room listening to the clock tick away second by second makes me realise how precious time really is and how fast it’s going!

    And my 3/365 of another year of my life is probably wrong. I wasn’t really that good at fractions at school, although algebra really screwed me up….I mean …a+b=c, find the value of a…..who cares!…. Apart from helping me getting Maths ‘O’ level in 1975, I cannot recall a time when I have ever since pondered the value of ‘a’, in Mathematics terms!

  • 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!