Current mood: HOW TO DO IT....
Category: HOW TO DO IT.... Life
is a genius...
His mother died of meningitis before he can remember her, leaving our dad with 2 kids...
It turned out Colin (the youngest) had pretty severe learning difficulties and when he was young, they gave him barbiturates because he had one hell of a temper...
My dad then married my mum and then she fell out with my eldest brother Nigel over rock music, smoking and long hair...
Colin stayed home until late and then he fell in love with Denise who is 15 years older than he is...
Denise had polio when she was very young, and was then mowed down by a car on a zebra crossing...
If Colin had been born 'normal', he'd have been a very effective businessman and then gone into politics...
And you know what???
He's done it anyway....
After he married Denise, he bought a flat in Southampton for £40,000...
A few years later that was worth £80,000...
He sold it and bought a terraced house for £120,000
He then sold that at the peak of the market for £145,000
He's got in and out of the property market at just the right time...
Now Colin and Denise live in sheltered accommodation, pay small rent to the council and are spending their profits...
They've been on 3 cruises inside a year...
Some members of the family have suggested they shouldn't be spending their money on such things - that they have to think about the future....
And this is the main problem with the Giovannis, we find it hard to keep our mouths shut on the contentious matters - out of love...
Tonight Colin phones me.
'Some people have been saying we spend too much money on the cruises, so next year we're doing it differently...'
'Oh yeah??' (I'm thinking they're going to go for a weeks self catering in Devon for £300)
'We're moving cabins from the £2000 ones to the £1600 ones - I'm not going any lower than that, NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS!!!'
 | Currently listening : Gold By Ella Fitzgerald Release date: 2007-10-09  |
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