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Back to my old stomping ground with Crime Factor!
On Thursday June 30, the Crime Factor rounds off National Crime Reading Month by visiting my old stomping ground – East Kilbride.
Well, it’s me we’re talking about so it was less a case of stomping, more treading lightly and not causing a fuss.
I’m older now, though, and all set to raise a ruckus!
Yes, I spent my teenage years in the town. I went to school there, I got drunk there for the first time, fell in love for the first time, second time, probably a few more times. I fall very easily. Especially now when I’m not so steady on my pins.
I developed my love of the movies there, attending the Cinema sometimes twice a week. That’s what it was called, stunningly original I know but it was my home from home.
I built tree houses and dens. I roamed fields and forests that are now housing estates. I did hospital radio in Hairmyres and Philipshill. I stand up – well, I was on my feet and there were jokes of a sort – in school concerts.
Anyway, Neil Broadfoot, Gordon GJ Brown, Mark Leggatt and I – overseen with an iron first by Peter Burnett – will be in the Waterstones store in the town centre, which hasn’t half grown since I lived there. I mean, I remember having my first shave when I turned a corner in the square one day. As you can see,I haven’t had one since. Now it’s all enclosed. And it’s some place, too.
So come along and see us. It’s free and it’s fun.
Myself, Neil Broadfoot, Mark Leggatt and Gordon GJ Brown. Picture by Daniel Morrison. And yes, Neil was holding me up.