A Mod's Odyssey

This is a very old photo of your bloggerist (is that a proper word? if not, it really should be don't you think?).

I believe, I would have been about 18 when this was taken in the back garden of my parents gaff in Wigmore Avenue. So that would mean it was around 1981.

I like to imagine that the vaguely tuned-in - albeit, slightly camp-looking (note the eyeliner!) - young rock 'n' roll scooter-kiddie staring into the camera here would, hopefully, have approved of his image being used, 20-odd years later, as a reminder to his cynical old future-self of his impressionable and wholly adrenaline-and-amphetamine-fuelled youth.

When this photo was taken I would still have been at school - in the Sixth Form, actually. Nineteen years in the Civil Service (yes, you do get less for murder) and a writing career that has seen me author or co-author over forty books (including a number of overseas editions), writing articles and reviews for numerous magazines and periodicals and, relatively recently, getting into local radio broadcasting was all way in the future when I slipped on my parka for the camera.

But I do like the photo's presence here. I find it somewhat comforting. He was a good kid was young Keith. A bit naive, maybe - but his heart was in the right place. Poor little sod, that was all knocked out of him when he got out into the Big Bad World!

So, anyway this, ladies and gentlemen, is my blog.

And you are very welcome to it.