Well there, I joined a college last year to take my mind off things during the week when there's nobody here, when my wife's away working and things like that, I started at the college and I said to my wife, “I'm joining the college, I'm meeting a lot of people and its passing the times of the day and I'm learning”, and she said “Right” and I let it go like that and I said, “I think I'll buy a computer” and she was totally against it.
She says, “You'll no sit at the computer five minutes, you haven't done anything like that for years, you haven't, you haven't, in the past couple of years, you haven't set your mind to anything in the past couple of years what makes you think you're going to sit at a computer?” I says, “Well if I do not do something pal I'm going to go up the wall with pain if I don't” so she said, “Look, we'll have it” and I bought my computer and I'm still going to college, I'm enjoying my college I just passed the first pass of my first two degrees this year, I got them through the Scottish qualifying authority in August.
I started a new program there I'm getting on with that. I'm never away from my computer at nights, I go up my shed and do the jobs that I want to do. I have another hobby, which is building model cars, which I build up, I maybe collect about four or five and then I'll spend every second night building them up bit by bit, and then I'll work on the computer a while, and I'll go back in the shed and we may go out for a drive, anything to keep me from thinking about this pain, because thinking about it, sitting here the way I am now, if I was to do this in the evening, I would be, I would need the doctor before I went to my bed, it's as simple as that. |
