Nothing was ever clean enough for my father. You could never clean as good as he could; you could never clean as fast and as thorough as he could.

I remember my first day at grammar school, being the only person who was me. Everybody else was like everybody else, and there I was, tanned, in a freezing cold playground in the middle of Middlesbrough, wondering what on earth I was doing there.

My father used to control the wholesale of many ice-cream items in Middlesbrough. He was central distributor for most of the region.

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