{"id":25425,"date":"2017-01-21T22:57:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T22:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=25425"},"modified":"2018-02-17T19:21:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T19:21:55","slug":"sweet-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/21\/sweet-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was 1999 when I turned 16, almost exactly 18 years ago given my birthday happens this week.<\/p>\n

I was at high school, seeing a girl a little older than me and working through my GCSEs. I would eventually gain a standard (for the time) 9 of them – 1 A*, 3 As, 4 Bs and a C – in various subjects (English Literature, English Language, Maths, Double Science, German, Graphic Design, Music and Geography).<\/p>\n

That would be in the Summer of course, however the winter of that year is not very memorable – I couldn’t tell you what I was doing this time then.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have a website then, I didn’t know I was able to get help from a SEO company<\/a> with it, that would all start the next year. I remember beginning to dabble in all of this the following year. My main computer in 1999 was likely to be an Amiga 1200 still, which was never online. A beautifully quick piece of kit, which I greatly love.<\/p>\n

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The Amiga A1200<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What else? I was playing the violin a lot at school and possibly took an exam that year. Overall I ended up with Grades 2, 3, 5 and 7, although I know I took Grade 7 in my A-Level year of 2001. I had just begun to diversify my musical experience as I began to be involved with the Morley And District Concert Band on keyboard.<\/p>\n

I can’t remember much else about being 16 to be honest.<\/p>\n\n

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