In cleanliness and purity Leslie was the complete opposite of my first employer, but he shared Oul’ Mac’s difficulties in the dental department.

And so I had been handpicked from a throng of young hopefuls, the same way the casting director had chosen the new blonde Charlie’s Angel, after Farah Fawcett-Majors left to become a big film star. The day I met Juvens in Kigali I had been visiting his country to learn about the incredible work of reconciliation since the genocide in 1994, when a million people were killed in a hundred days. Leslie was very holy but I realised that he must have had sex a few times because he had young children. And author Tony Macaulay is hopeful that a young unknown talent from the west of the city will rise to the challenge and star in the show.I can’t wait to see and hear this mix of teenage kicks, tatey bread, music, love and war on the stage of the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. He took a Sunday School class, taught the Bible to the Boys’ Brigade on a Sunday morning (even when some of the boys were still hung-over from a bottle of Mundies up an entry the night before) and he looked after all the money in the church. I can promise you Breadboy is like jumping into the TARDIS with Doctor Who and travelling back in time to Belfast in 1977. Sooner or later, Breadboy is sure they ll become a proper couple like Paul and Linda, and Judy will be his girl.

Our city was more divided than ever and yet we were completely united in our love for the humble soda farl.In 2016 Tony’s first three books were translated into Braille by prisoners in the Braille Unit in Maghaberry Prison. Macaulay even brought the American director on a paper round to give him an insight into the world of the old Belfast Telegraph paperboys. It tells the story of how ordinary people not only survived, but tried to live with joy and hope during a traumatic time in our history. I had hung up my dirty canvas paper bag for good because it was time for me to move on to bigger and better things. The Bee Gees fill the airwaves, there’s Smash and fishfingers on the table for tea, and Tony’s love of peace and pets is soon rivalled by his interest in parallel universes and punk … and girls, especially gorgeous Judy Carlton, who sits opposite him in Chemistry.