Contents
CONTENTS
Prologue – ‘Just get on with it’
PART ONE - A Nottingham Youth
Chapter 1 Look Up, Look Back, Look Forward
Chapter 2 Family 1- Ancestors
Chapter 3 Weekends
Chapter 4 Family 2 - Parents
Chapter 5 Teach Your Children Well
Chapter 6 Space Cadet
Chapter 7 5:45am - Addicted to Chlorine
Chapter 8 Always - Mum
Chapter 9 Family 3 - My Generation
Chapter 10 Golden Years – Sixth Form
Chapter 11 Forest - Mist Rollin’ in from the Trent
Chapter 12 University - Time of your Life
Chapter 13 A Girl - Peaceful Easy Feeling
PART TWO - Bristol Adventurer
Chapter 14 River Deep, Mountain High - Part One
Chapter 15 Work 1 - Moving on Up
Chapter 16 Namaste - Heat and Dust
Chapter 17 Family 4 - Freedom Decade
Chapter 18 The Girl - Perfect
Chapter 19 Sunsets
Chapter 20 Sidetrack (ii) - Merlin
Chapter 21 Anchorage - The Family Home
Chapter 22 River Deep, Mountain High - Part Two
PART THREE – Downend Dad
Chapter 23 Family 5 - Small Faces
Chapter 24 Work 2 - Life at the Top
Chapter 25 You got a friend
Chapter 26 Sidetrack (iii) - Imagine there’s no heaven
Chapter 27 We’re all going on a summer holiday
Chapter 28 DNA Diaspora - a genetic backpacking trip
Chapter 29 Work 3 - Controlled descent
Chapter 30 One Summer - 2012 vintage
Chapter 31 River Deep, Mountain High - Part Three
Chapter 32 Family 6 - Boys
Chapter 33 Sidetrack (iv) - A Day in the Life 1859
Chapter 34 Acetabulum - The Curious Adventure of the Dog in the Park
Chapter 35 Focus - This month in Shoot Magazine we focus on ......Pete Sheath Forest's No 9.
Chapter 36 Sidetrack (v) - Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed
Chapter 37 Work 4 - Building the Best Team Ever
Chapter 38 You’ve Either Got It or You Haven’t
Chapter 39 Charge Sheet - I Fought the Law
Chapter 40 Work 5 - It’s the End for the Best Team Ever
PART FOUR – Retired Reactionary
Chapter 41 Sidetrack (vi) - Cuisine, Couch, Calories or Cardio?
Chapter 42 Sidetrack (vii) - Thin Blue Line
Chapter 43 Southmead Season Ticket - Crash #2 and #3
Chapter 44 Sidetrack (viii) - Who let the dogs out?
Chapter 45 Never, Gradually, Suddenly - Dad
Chapter 46 Sidetrack (ix) - Sisters are doing it for themselves
Chapter 47 Threepenny Bit to GB Ironman
Chapter 48 The Path
Chapter 49 Sidetrack (x) - We used to own that
Chapter 50 Sidetrack (xi) - Manifesto
Chapter 51 Time Check
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 Desert Island Playlist
Appendix 2 Sports – Endurance Event Results
Appendix 3 Curriculum Vitae
Appendix 4 Family Tree
Appendix 5 Service History