About Me
I was in the army so i was. i loved it there, but it was very hard on Liz so it was, and i'd left by the time they moved into The Street so i did. i took a job as a security guard so i did, but i got a fright when i surprised a couple of intruders at the yard i was minding. i started beating them up so i did and i was concerned that my temper so it was could result in him killing some bastard if that situation arose again. I left that job,so i didi was also a mechanic so i was and tried running my own garage for a while so i did but that didn't work out. From there, i joined Kevin at MVB Motors so i did we got on very well so we did, but i kept having run-ins with Mike Baldwin so i did cos hes a fucker so he is. As well as being a mechanic, i got the job of chauffeur so i did when Mike started to hire out his Jag for businessmen.Liz and i had quite a rocky marriage so we did. we got married when we discovered she was pregnant-that fucking steve he's a shit so he is, so our early life together had also been with the twins, which was difficult. Liz had also found life as an army-wife quite lonely - eventually so she turned into a slag so she did!!! - so i had to give it up for her. This was one of many causes of resentment between us so it was. Despite it all though, we had deep feelings for each other which kept us together.However, Liz finally left me when i hit Steve - one day boy i'm gonna kill you so i am - during one of my outbursts. She said she couldn't take it any more. She'd been working as a barmaid at the Rovers and had been offered her own pub, the Queens, by Newton and Ridley. She moved into the flat above the pub, and took up with Des brother Colin - the slag - who also worked there. Hed recently left the navy and was making a new life on land so he was.i kept turning up at the Queens and eventually i smacked out Colin and was barred by the brewery. me and Liz made it up - i love you liz so i do,come back to me - and she moved back in with me.When the Rovers came up for sale, Liz persuaded me to try and buy it so she did. The brewery wanted the place off their hands, and would sell it to the first person who could come up with the money. Bet couldn't raise the funds so she couldn't, so it was left to the Duckworths and the us, both of whom had to find a buyer for our houses to get the cash.The Mallets looked at both houses, finally settling on the Duckworths. But Liz called me during a chauffeuring job, and said that if they could get somewhere at a certain time, they could still be in the running. Jim abandoned the clients and went back, but it was too late. we'd lost the Rovers so we had and then i lost my job when Mike fired me so he did.We were both very disappointed not to get the Rovers, as this had seemed like a new start for us so it was. Shortly after this, we went to one of my army reunions. His old friend was there, and i got a bit suspicious of the way he was acting with Liz so i was. On the way home, under my continual badgering, she confessed that hed seen her a lot when i was away in the army and she had slept with him one night because she was so lonely so she did.I called her a whore, beat her up and abandoned her at a service-station. Later, full of remorse for what i'd done, i wanted to speak to her so i did. But Liz was now in deadly fear of his temper and wouldn't see me so she wouldn't. This got me angry again and i tried to break into our house, smashing the back window. i was only stopped from getting in by Curly Watts and Kevin Webster, who dragged him out and the police took over from there so they did.Liz took out a restraining order on me, and called the police again when i followed her into the Rovers trying to talk to her. This time i was calm so i was and back to normal, but Liz was still very frightened and couldn't trust me so she couldn't. i was sent to prison for a few weeks for breaking the restraining order and i'm bitter about it so i am.By now i was working with Bill Websters building firm. Bill had had a bad experience in his marriage so he did, and was more than ready to give Jim his pearls of wisdom about the badness of women so he was.I'm very proud of my son Andy,he's in University so he is. i despair at that fecker Steve,i'm gonna kill him so i am!! he's a petty criminal. i am unable to talk to him and my attempts to put him straight invariably end up as a slanging match. However, i do love Steve so i do, and now that he's in prison, has given up drink in sympathy (as Steve can't drink in prison so i can't), and i'm putting all his effort into building up a good business with Bill so Steve will have a place to work when he gets out so he does.Jims mother recently died and left him £4000. Bill is hoping he'll put this into the business, but Jim wants to use it as a deposit on their old house. Liz was refused a mortgage so can't buy it herself. She's adamant that Jim won't get it, as "he'll have won". She wants strangers to buy it. Jim says she's being ridiculous. It was OK for her to buy it but not him. Anyway, he's had enough, and won't be contributing to the mortgage any more.
