Skeem Life: Growing Up in the Seventies

by Gary Robertson

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The 1970s had so much more to offer than just bell-bottom trousers and disco music. Gary Robertson takes us on a journey through the whole decade where he spent his early life growing up in the Whitfield and Fintry housing schemes in Dundee. It was a life without the restricting shackles of 'political correctness' where youngsters roamed with carefree abandon and sometimes got up to no good in the process. Diverse subjects such as berry-picking, skale days, Christmas in a multi-storey, drunken New Year pehrties, youth gangs, catching bees and bird-nesting are all covered in Gary Robertson's own unique and humorous style. It's a colourful account with intermittent bursts of local dialect to give a flavour of the larger than life characters from the streets where he lived and still lives.
  • ISBN10 1845023218
  • ISBN13 9781845023218
  • Publish Date 30 September 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 November 2016
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Black and White Publishing
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Language English