http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/dam-my-education Just another bbPress community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 01:16:39 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/dam-my-education#post-285695 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:39:19 +0000 Phillymorris 285695@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>So were do i start? I was left at the back of the comprehensive class room in the 80&#39;s as i could not read or write too well. I could pick up any musical instrument and play it with in weeks, i could paint, draw with ease and was known as the class &quot;funny man&quot; so to speak (type? you see i struggle with even grammar) &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_eek.gif&quot; title=&quot;8O&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; . I never really got the hang of it and as some of you may know that in the 80&#39;s if you could not do it then you were not on the teachers list of possible brags. I have always had fascination with Stephen Fry as he i always wonder that if i could have written well and could read then he may be what i might have become or could have been. Every time i see him on TV i learn some thing, every time i hear him talk i learn something and once having served in the army i can say that he got his role in Blackadder goes Fourth spot on!. I have not even opened a book since i was 23 (i turned 40 last year) give or take one, or one and on looking around the airport last week for something to keep me company i found his Chronicles. It came with me across Munich, through the Alps, down the valleys of Bavaria, along the Danube river and sat with me in the squares of Salzburg. I would laugh out loud to complete strangers, shreek with amazement on buses and reflect at my own bouts of depression, my smoking addiction and my troubled youth along with a man i greatly admire. I had cancer some years ago aged 30 and ever since i have felt even closer to Stephen , it brought back deep depression and close to suicide. Thanks to a treatment of testosterone i got rid of the darkness and feel better again (this is a new treatment which is making waves that it can be linked to drops and peeks in male hormones) <a href="http://www.androids.org.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.androids.org.uk</a> by the way . GOING off topic here so i will finish with Thank you for this book it has taught me more in the first 300 pages than the school ever did.I will treasure it for ever.</p> <p>Philly<br /> <a href="http://www.phillymorris.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.phillymorris.com</a><br /> <a href="http://www.checkemlads.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.checkemlads.com</a> charity </p>