40 years and Counting (down)
Some milestone eh? Yep, I started working here 40 years ago today. WTF! No, actually WHAT THE FUCK!!!! My (just) 17 year old self in 1978 could not have imagined what the world would look like in 2018. I wish I'd written myself a letter and sealed it up to be opened 24 July 2018! No I don't. What the hell would have said anyway? When I was 17 I was into music (punk of course), cricket and the Boro. I still love music (not punk of course), cricket (not so much) and the Boro (much more so) so in some ways not a lot has changed. I was forming my political ideas and already really into fighting racism which has been a life long fight documented in my blog many times. I was learning about Apartheid and was convinced justice would soon prevail and the all white South African government would be overthrown. Apartheid went on until the early 1990's, another 12+ years. It seemed a long wait, yet 12 years back from (a...