When I first went away to college I lived in digs with three other guys who, like me were either from the country or small towns and eager to experience the delights of the big city. Towards the end of the first term we decided we’d go to the Turkish bath...

At the end of my last year at university I’d finished my last exam at the beginning of June then had an anxious three weeks to wait for the results. I’d nothing to do and very little money. I did not want to hang about college, although there were some pa...

At the end of sixth form after finishing exams I had a long summer wait for the results. In the local harbour where my dad kept his recreational fishing boat I heard there was a guy with a big, 38ft yacht looking for crew to sail up to the western isles f...