4 Decades ago my family proudly believed my passing the 11 plus
would be a passport to life as a comfortably well off gentleman.
Grammar School would educate the council estate out of me
and lead to a good permanent job in the Civil Service
and membership of an exclusive golf club.

Unfortunately what good education did do was divert me into a life of cultural & political dissent,
and a life as a pennyless unemployable smart arse agit pop punk folk guitarist........