It's A Wonderful Life

As a very young boy attending a village school in the Highlands of Scotland, I started to realise the value of words at a very young age. Always telling stories of monsters, giants, or cowboys and Indians, I was encouraged to build on this natural talent, and even advised to pursue a career as a writer. Like most kids, I duly ignored that advice, becoming a soldier straight from school at the ripe old age of sixteen. I put that down to sheer luck, or the good Lord's intervention t