Just to get things moving, I’m going to give you a brief biog of my life, without giving away too much personal details incase someone tries to rob me (i.e some dodgy Nigerian scammer or even HMRC).
I was born and raised on the rough streets of Prenton in Wirral. Life could be hard in our cul-de-sac…..hmmm perhaps I wont go that far back.
Basically I am from a working class background and went to a good local grammar school (coz I wusnt fick) but alas, I didn’t really get much out of it. I followed the advice of Mark Twain, who ‘never led school get in the way of his education.’ Though perhaps he was a bit brighter than I am, so I could have concentrated at least a bit more.
I mooched around Europe for a few months (my Dad now lives in Belgium) and then travelled for a year or so around the Far East and India, staying in Taiwan for a while to teach fat, spoilt chinese children who had wealthy parents.
Upon my return I set up my own business. I wont go into too much detail, but basically it went incredibly well at the start (I won a Trinity Mirror Business Award amongst other things) but then came crashing down due to a few personal reasons.
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after living with it for god knows how many years and ended up on the business scrap heap with no clue what to do with my life. It was at this time that I sat down and worked out exactly what I wanted to do with my life. The best way for me to do this was to write down what I love…..the list ran like this:
1) Everton
2)Beer
3)Wine
4)Food
As it was fairly obvious that I was never going to play for Everton (for reasons being mainly that I played football like Roy Cropper) I would therefore persue a career in either food or drink…..simple……or so I thought.
Yes, my knowledge was very good for an amateur, but I had as much chance being hired on my hobby as Nick Griffin had of getting a job in equality and diversity simply because he talks about blacks and muslims all day.
So, I immersed myself (with frightening bipolar obession) into everything drink. I took every course, read every book, visited countless vintners, breweries, pubs, bars, etc, and gained WSET and BII qualifications.
To cut a long story short, I now consider my knowledge to be enough to at least give a rounded opinion on beers, wines and spirits. I’m now working in the industry, but profess that I’m working towards becoming buyer at some point rather than what I’m doing now.
So, that’s a bit of a short summary of my life, and perhaps gives you an indication of why I’m writing this daft blog.
