Bert Scorgie

Bert Scorgie I was born on the 14th of December 1937 in Cullen Banffshire. My father was a regular soldier due for demob the week the war started,due to the war he was kept in the Army and sadly he was killed 1940. My mother re-married a farm worker, to keep employed my step father had to move virtually once a year, this meant that during my ten years of schooling I attended six different schools.At the age of Fifteen I left school poorly educated and unskilled I started to make my way in the world. I had to make the best of what ever work was available. At the age of twenty I met and married my wife we went on to have two daughters. I eventually managed to find a job in the Oil Industry where I achieved promotion to positions I didnt think possible. Then at the age of sixty two I suffered a heart attack that left me unable to work any longer. Having spent my working life working long hours I found it hard to hang around the house doing nothing so I bought a Computor and started to write after playing around for a while I decided to try writing a book. So why not write my own life story hence the book Tigers Under The Turf. The title is taken from one of my many jobs, for a few years I worked as a tunnel miner on the Hydro Electric Schemes in the Highlands of Scotland the tunnel miners were known as Tunnel Tigers and we worked under the turf so that was book one. My second book starts off in the N.E.of Scotland where I spent the first fifteen years of my life. We started off on a small holding farm so this prompted me to write about life in a Scottish Farming community, how the war caused problems and scattered populations all over the world. My story follows one family from birth until they start dying off nearly eighty years later although this book is fiction it is based on true happenings and of folks who did exist.Thank you for reading this article.