Quotes from Derek Smith

Back trouble was the curse of the builder and

wasn't that the way with every builder? No one had all the skills. You come in as a carpenter and they want more and more of you. Plastering, plumbing, roofing. So you say yes to get the work.

Social workers are bastards,

he himself would have fought back. Not easy when you're naked,

England being England, weather is changeable.

Beautiful, they extolled, that much bandied word, that should be restricted to descriptions of children, flowers and birds of paradise.

filth was one of the things that turned you off sex. Smell and stains.

Twenty-two guys chasing a ball and a whole crowd screaming their heads off. It was an absurd ritual,