Birthday Blues No.1 #8 - Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

(HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICKERS) I am eight, Ian Dury is number one . I was recently telling a friend that looking back I realised more that I was an unhappy child than someone who had had an unhappy childhood. I didn’t fit in. I found comfort in books and films and pop music from an early age. But then, not long before my eighth birthday, Death entered my world. He didn’t come to Pemberley . He…