During the next couple of years I found myself in and out of temporary foster homes with occasional stops at my Grand Parents house in Ickenham. This resulted in a bit of a mess regarding my early years of schooling as I can remember at least four different primary schools which is not bad for a two year period.

Around about the age of seven and with a few months of primary education left I found my self placed in a children's home in Yeading. This was the first half decent place I had been sent to, and at 7 years I think I was as happy as a child with no Parents and no idea where his brothers were could be.

The home was at 5 Hornbeam Road in Yeading and run by a lovely couple named Greenwood, to myself and the other children in the home they were known as Uncle John and Auntie Win ( Winifred, I think ). And they were really nice people. I would imagine they have probably passed away by now, as they were no spring chickens then, bless them.

Once in a stable situation I began to hear of the fate of my other three brothers, they, like me, had been placed into children's homes not too far away, although we only saw each other on rare occasions, and only then, when the children's homes were invited to special occasions like a Christmas trip to the American Air force base at West Ruislip.

Auntie June, Nan, Grandad and Me - Summer Days In The Garden at Baldslow Rd, Hastings

My brothers Jim and Geoffrey were kept together in the same children's home due to their age and I think because they were easy to manage. But Kenny was not so lucky, as he was born deaf and dumb and needed more attention than the rest of us, I think he was fostered out on a number of occasions until he was fortunate enough to be fostered by a couple named McQuean (not sure of spelling ) who had a daughter with the same condition and kindly took him into their family as their own child.

The next five years or so passed without much of a change, my children's home was transferred to a lovely house in Staines, Middlesex. 33 Rookery Road. Now a modern office conversion, but in my time a large Georgian house with a good sized garden. I continued to spend holidays and the odd weekends with my Nan and Grandad for which I shall always be grateful, as they had, in their own way, become my surrogate parents, and I shall always love them for that.

I continued to maintain a very close and loving relationship with them, right up until they both died. And I miss them both very much. I only wish they had been as kind to my brothers as they were to me, perhaps it was just too much for them as they were not getting any younger and I could be quite a handful on my own. I learnt in later life that my brothers also found this difficult to understand, and consequently, never held them with the same affection as I.

When I started secondary education I soon realized that my school in Staines, 'Matthew Arnold' would be a complete and utter waste of time due to the size of the classes, about 35 kids per class, so I managed to pull a few strings through the Hillingdon Welfare people and found myself sitting the entrance exam for a boarding school in Hampshire.

On passing and gaining acceptance, I began a more fruitful education at 'Tylney Hall' in Rotherwicke, Hants.

Tylney Hall, Rotherwicke, Hampshire.

I loved this school and all its quirks, more to come in ('My Story') and spent a most enjoyable five years there, then off to the Army as a 'boy soldier' for 2 years, then into 'civvie street' where I met and married my first wife Denise within  the first year.

So now aged 18 years, I had a wife and two lovely children (twins), named, Robert John Cain and Victoria Sarah Cain. Born 12th July 1971.

Having set the scene of my existence, and not wishing to decry from the task of writing a more formal version of ('My Story').  I will bring this short history up to date with the facts only.

Denise and I lasted about seven years as a married couple, by which time we had grown up enough to realize that our future was not together.

I spent the next couple of years as a single man. During which time I met a lovely girl named Julie. We spent about two years having a very casual relationship resulting in the birth of a son named ' Robert', her choice of name and more for the reasons and events in ('My Story').  I then met a fine lady named Elaine, we had a whirlwind relationship and married within a month of meeting. We spent about five years together until I fell head over heals in love with a beautiful girl named 'Shona'.

I will, for the rest of my life, always feel bad about the way I treated 'Elaine', and I know deep in my heart that she will never forgive me. I can only say that, I know she is happy now, and I wish her nothing but good things for the rest of hers.

'Shona'. I will tell of our stormy time together in ('My Story'). And of the five years we spent as man and wife, she will always be very special to me, and the only regret I have is that I will probably never see her again.

'Lynn ' came into my life as a great friend and remains, I hope, still a great friend.  I will always have a special place in my heart for 'Lynn' and will be eternally grateful for the birth of our son 'Samuel Henry Cain'. I think I must be a very fortunate man to have such a son as 'Sam' and I am very proud of him, and enjoy the close contact we have together, despite the fact that he lives in Hastings, and I am up here in the Midlands.

Then came my time with 'Valda'. We spent a total of five years together, the main part of which was very happy, but me being me, managed to completely ruin a good relationship and cause a great deal of bad feeling between us. For this I don't ask forgiveness, just maybe some understanding.  I have, throughout my life, been an utterly useless Husband and partner. And can only attribute this to the fact that, as a child I lacked a role model in the form of loving parents, and have had to look out for myself from the age of five. I guess, I have grown up selfish, and a little too protective of my feelings. I put up barriers when people get close to me, for fear of loosing them, like the loss of my parents, and my childhood.

For those, to whom,  I have hurt in the past, I ask only a little understanding. It has taken a great many years to come to terms with my childhood and the trauma their in. And I hope that my understanding of what has been will in turn give me a better grasp on the here and now!     

And finally we arrive at the 'here and now'.

I am now happily married, (once again) to a lovely lady named 'Kerry', and between us we have managed to produce two fine Daughters named 'Jo-D' and 'Ellen'.

I currently work as a truck driver and live in the Midlands, I am a very proud Dad of all my children and have a wonderful wife in 'Kerry'.

I will, in the fullness of time, sit down and write the epic ('My Story') part to my life, which, if you take the time to read,  you may find, interesting and quite amusing in parts.

So that's the potted version so far!