Someone once said to me 'for an ordinary bloke you have had such an interesting life, you should write a book, it would be a best seller'. I ignored it, but more recently, others have encouraged me and so I decided to give it a go. Initially I expected it to be a series of funny stories linked together with other interesting events of my life, but it has turned out to be more than that. I asked someone to read it before publishing and he described...