After attending three different secondary schools, Si decided it was a waste of time taking his GCE exams and bunked off to head for the workplace via the YTS scheme. Earning little more than twenty-something quid a week and a clip round the ear for cutting carpet 'very wonky', Si set off in search of new horizons.
He describes the next ten years of his working life in grim fashion: 'I worked as a telesales 'thingy'