Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and Nursing

Written by Raymond Moore

Narrated by Ged C

When you read about what I got up to you’re going to say I got what I deserved. You’re right—I totally agree. Many of you won't like me no doubt and that’s ok—I understand, I really do. I’m not all bad though.
I left the Isle of Skye in the early eighties to begin my nursing course in Edinburgh and it's fair to say I embraced the Capitals temptations with arms wide open. When I moved into a shared flat I met Bill, a musician, and got involved with his band Low Down, you know, helping them out, doing a bit of driving and humping gear about - it was great fun. Low Down were truly phenomenal. Man, I totally loved their music. We took drugs, I mean, I took drugs. Nothing heavy, just recreational-like.
I met a lot of girls who I didn’t treat right and I’m not proud of my behaviour—honest. Nursing is a female-dominated profession and male nurses were thin on the ground. The opportunities for getting up to mischief were many. I worked hard and played harder.
A lot of stuff I regret now. Especially what I did to Lisa – and others. Anyway, it couldn’t last, could it? The way I was living – something had to give.
And it did.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Baghdad Radio
• Release date: Oct 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798823489096

Raymond Moore

Raymond Moore is a Registered Nurse, working for The Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs in Saudi Arabia. As well as being a writer, Raymond has been a record label owner, band manager, and cover band. Born and brought up in Glasgow, he left his parents and moved to the Isle of Skye as a young teenager. Raymond is the author of the Skye Stories Trilogy available on Redshank Books and has self-published two poetry collections on Amazon. Poetry? Maybe and Poetry? Probably Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and Nursing is his first novel. When not at work he spends his time with his wife who is Thai and their three children in Surin Province where he has a house and farm. He is currently working on his next book Castledawn a ghost story set on the Isle of Skye in the nineteen seventies.