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Unlike me, after my only bottle of Brut aftershave had run out, it never smelt bad on a Saturday morning. The digital clock radio hummed quite loudly when you plugged it in and this kept me awake at night, but it was very good at waking me up at six o’clock on a Saturday morning. Every time I entered the van at six thirty each Saturday morning the seductive scent wafting from still warm loaves, fresh from the oven, made me long for noon when my labours would be finished for another week.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. He always wore old-fashioned slacks with braces and a shirt and tie under his white coat, just like my chemistry teacher, except Leslie’s white coat was bakery regulation rather than scientific attire.

The only two essential criteria in the job specification for a breadboy were no thieving and no giving cheek to the pensioners. When you pressed the red button in the driver’s cab a cheery tune crackled out from a speaker at the back. I knew Leslie was a master breadman who took no nonsense, so I committed myself wholeheartedly to learning my new trade and continuing my professional development. Although Leslie was almost completely without sin, he did have one serious weakness – he loved a good gossip almost as much as Big Aggie in our street.

Tony has performed book readings at a range of respected literary festivals including: Aspects Literature Festival, Edinburgh Book Fringe, Belfast Book Festival, Dublin Book Festival, 4 Corners Festival and Féile an Phobail. The Bee Gees fill the airwaves, everyone is in love with Princess Leia, and Breadboy s love of peace and pets is soon rivalled by his interest in parallel universes and punk. The King is dead - and even Big Duff, the hardest loyalist hard man on the whole estate has been seen to shed a tear.