Before the beginning

If you have read any of my blog post then you will probably have noticed that spelling is not my strongest skill. But this is nothing you should have seen what my spelling/grammar/writing were like when I was very little, I was very dyslexic and am written work was difficult to understand at the best of times. When I was about Ten we had to write something about what we wanted to do when we grow up for the careers adviser. So i wrote that I wanted to be a rabbi. Unfortunately for some reason best known to my younger self I though that there was a silent "T" at the end of the word Rabbi; so what I had actually written was 'I want to be a rabbit!' as you can guess this didn't go down all that well and I was called in to see the head-teacher who told me that I was being silly and that I couldn't do that when I grew up.
I was a stubborn little boy and I held fast so my parents were called in and there was some talk of my needing to see an education psychologist.
It was only after sometime that i said rather angrily "I don't know why you're saying that I cant be a Rabbi' cue much merriment and a not inconsiderable amount of relief.