I did it! I finally did it! Through the clouds of my mind and my own (indulgent) low self esteem in this area of my private universe, I came up with a success. Now this was not a universe shattering, Sky News Headlines sort of success, but that is all relative anyway. … More 59 – Ingredients (2008)
” By the summer I had my own council flat, ingesting copious amounts of speed, and had nearly overdosed, on paracetamol. ” … More 55 – FINALLY Understanding Education (1989)
“Mr Ward, towering next to me, kept whispering to me to relax and all would be ok.” … More 54 – That first time (1978)
ALL I WANT is normality And yet you give me smack but dress it up As a cure to make you feel better … More 52 Free (drugs or life)
“My first game I turn up at Celtic Park and meet with all the others the stewards in the upstairs of the old Celtic Pools Office building. It’s the 25th November and Celtic are playing Rangers. What a start!” … More 51 Stewarding Stuart – The Celtic Connection part 2 (1991)
“My dad would have called himself a supporter but didn’t really go to many games. Gary did. No 4 up the Celtic end was our normal place…” … More 50 – Stewarding Stuart (The Celtic Connection part 1)
At 27 I had the privilege of my real boss pointing a real gun at me and wanting to shoot me. … More 49 – We don’t need no education…
“These vagabond shoesAre longing to strayRight to the very heart of it…” From New York New York, by Fred Ebb / John Kander David Wilkerson had made the eight-hour drive from his quiet mountain village to downtown Manhattan for a simple reason: to speak to the seven accused gang members about their salvation. In a … More The city that never sleeps
I sat in a barber’s chair in Paisley the other day. I am a guy that keeps his hair short, so that is an almost monthly occurrence. Roberto had messed with my head by changing his premises around and moving. I like familiarity so that was slightly more uncomfortable than it should have been – … More 48 – Silver Fine (1988)
“I was sixteen years old, and I was on my way around the corner to score because I was strung out and I needed a fix.” … More 47 The first time – I FEEL Sick (1986)
I had enjoyed a few minutes chatting to Tracy and some of the other Dubliners. Paul Evans then gave us the look, so we continued packing away all The Evidence gear and getting it into our van. Stephen and I were back at our house in Penygroes before long. Stephen was keen, though to get … More 46 Communication (part4) – Sealed with a… (2000)
So life carried as normal for a couple of weeks. As I mixed back into the Teen Challenge routine the odd thought would cross my mind about the mysterious Irish lady in the other side of the phone. Tracy was different, though. Whether it was pity, or boredom or something else (after 18 years I … More 44 – Communication (Part 2) – First Class Post (2000)
stupatterson.wordpress.com 171 Lochend Road. The last close before the hill up to the loch. I knew it well because my granny and granda and our Peter lived there. I spent many a happy day in my pre-teens visiting. Even through to the first days of my teens I was happiest there. Peter would always be … More 42 – Lochwood Farm (1980, 1984, 2018)
It is too wonderful. You are doing the job you always longed for. Your kids are wonderfully happy and bringing nothing but joy to your soul. Real friends, voices, emotions and even touch. The incredible sensation of things hoped for coming to past. Family you thought had long gone are having supper with you. Such … More 41 – Lost (2018)
It started there, it went to there, it change here and it’s going there, just so you know. … More 40 – A bit of an explanation (2018)
“Finally she found a little respite right in the centre of where, for so many years, had been the cause of the storm.” … More 39 – Milk n a piece n jam Part 4 – Rest and be thankful (2003)
Piece n chips Posted on Jun 20, 2019 by stupatterson As wee bites go, ye cannae wackthe awesomeness of a Scots snackWhether deep fried Mars,or battered ice creamus Scots know whiteating food really means But for the purposeaw this wee tripa want tae tell yeaboot ma piece n chips Ye know doon in Wales, when in TCnuffink could … More 38 – Milk n a piece n jam (Part 3 – Chips) (1997)
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
― Nelson Mandela … More 37 – Milk n a piece n jam (Part 2 – no rest when arrested) (1989)
“Ardrossan Castle and its big slide. The assault course on the grounds. Football. My studying Ailsa Craig and the classroom studies. I felt ar home here and loved it (did I mention that before).” … More 36 – Milk n a piece n jam – Part 1 (1981)
This blog was originally going to be part of another, but as I was writing it, it was obvious that the moments recalled needed to be on their own. Christmas 2002. That was tough. Tracy and I were now married and living in our own fantastic apartment in the Irish Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in … More 35 – JP (2002)
Completing the Tenner 