Stories Our Daddy Did Not Tell Us

About the Book

This is the story of a boy born in a two-room terrace flat who had quite a normal life but struggled with his own weaknesses until he finally got married, had children, and started traveling. He has written down his experiences as a child in the 1940s, as a teenager in the fifties, and as a young man in the sixties and then wrote about his experiences while traveling the world during his working life, which, when read, suggests he did not have such a normal life after all.

About the Author

Alan Raine was born in 1941 during World War II and went through infant, junior, and grammar school like the majority of children of his age. He left school and started to work seriously at the local iron and steel works and was there for twenty-one years. When the works closed, he moved into a company that was just getting involved with the offshore gas industry. He spent a number of years there, working with other engineers in the offshore oil and gas industry. When the facility that he was working at closed, he started to work for a small company that was involved in the inspection of welded components from subsea to out-in-space structures. Even after he retired from that occupation, he was asked to use his knowledge to act as a consultant and to train engineers to use the equipment that he had been involved with. This was supposed to be short-term but ended up being over ten years. During all of this time, quite a bit of traveling was involved. Several unusual and sometimes funny incidents occurred, and these are recounted here. When he retired again at seventy-four, and as the ukulele classes were not going so good, he decided to write some of these experiences down.