Confessions of a Clumsy Scot

I’ve always loved reading since I could.
When I was little, Mum and Dad would put me to bed and the minute I heard the kitchen door close I would pull out a book from under my bed.
I’d read it end to end, over and over.
Any time I heard my parents come through I’d throw the duvet over my head and pretend to sleep. They knew I wasn’t sleeping.

It took them years to tell me they didn’t mind if it wasn’t too late because I was reading and not doing anything mischievous.

In school I adored writing stories and reading books.
In primary school (elementary or first school if you’re not from Scotland) we had reading homework to do weekly which was just reading certain pages of a book to practice before we read it in school with our teacher, and then we had to get our diary signed by our parents to tell the teacher we’d done it.
I went home the same night and read the whole book cover to cover and never ever got my diary signed and truthfully my teachers never seemed to care and I think it’s because I had a pretty good ability to read anyway.

Then came high school. Obviously you start writing essays and not just stories. I LOVED IT.
I wrote essays for competitions and won a few too and my English teachers were pretty proud too.
It was the one thing in school I was good at. I had a physics and maths brain (hello engineering, post school) and I played music and these are things I enjoyed but I was genuinely good at English. I left school early but pleaded with my teachers and office staff to let me come in for my English classes and sit my final exam and they let me. I passed.
That in itself is massive for me. I don’t do well in exams. I know everyone says that but I will genuinely walk into an exam, sit down and forget every single thing I’ve ever learnt and probably burst out crying. Something I still do age 25. They’ve never gotten any easier for me.
In English classes in school we did little friendly competitions to see who could read the most books each term and I read a mental amount of books to be honest at the time.
After leaving school, I stopped reading so often.
And as time went past I read less and less.

I missed it so a couple of years ago I bought myself a Kindle, downloaded a couple of free books and started getting back into it.
Now I’ll lose myself in a book for hours at a time. I maybe won’t pick a book up for a few weeks but when I do, I could happily sit and read a book in a night.

This is also why I started this blog. I wanted to start writing again. I’m not great at the fictional side of things. My imagination isn’t great, but when I find a non-fiction topic I’m interested in, I could write a whole dissertation on it to be honest.
So although I know there’s loads of people who are not interested in what I’m doing here but this is my little outlet so if you’re here and reading my rambles, Thank you.

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