Little Barry was almost ten years old. In fact his tenth birthday was due in a couple of weeks. To Barry this would be a very important birthday. After that no longer would his age be a single number, then it would be in double figures.
Barry lived with his Mum, Laura, in a small, council, 2 bed-roomed house in a town in East Anglia in England. He knew nothing of his Dad who, apart from assisting in creating him, had then vanished from both his and his mum’s life, leaving her to bring him up