Holmes, MR David Michael

It would be difficult to say when I started writing, perhaps my first 'toe in the water' was listening to music on the radio and, in common with most people, would sing along with the tune, but forgetting, or not knowing the lyrics, would make up words and lines that fitted. I of course, was subjected to the usual composition writing at school, but never did it with much enthusiasm, although one teacher of English did inspire me, not least, by leaping onto the desk to emphasise a point and he, was quickly followed by another purveyor of the English Word, whose stock in trade was, 'End with a B...