For Everything there is a First Time



First single bought: Lebanon by The Human League


First CD bought: Ambient Moods – a compilation.


First love: Jackie Morgan – literally the girl next door


First lover: Trisha Jones (many years later).


First job: General office worker in Central London


First owned home: My present location


First time abroad: Skiing in the French Alps with the school aged 13-14


First degree: BA(Hons) Social Ethics with Educational Studies


First drink: Vodka from a plastic elephant (previously containing bath oil) provided by my best school friend Andy aged 9-10


First hangover: Aged 11-12 after drinking the dregs of every glass left behind from a party my Mum had in our new house. Understandably I was very ill.


First book (that I remember): Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner written in 1929. I think I must have been about 10 and remember that it had a profound impact on me. Oddly I didn’t start reading voraciously until about 4 years later when I was introduced to SF by a friend of my brother.


First concert: The Stranglers in 1983. I was a very late convert to live music.