Follow Barry as he loses his freedom and starts school before working in Huddersfield until he is conscripted for National Service and is posted to Malta. This is a sequel to his first novel "Nowt to Lose". Still full of mischief and fun Barry deals with the "Dollops of Life" that he is served. Blotting out the Regal cinema soundtrack and being chased by the police in Valletta are recalled in this second Autobiography of a young lad brought up during the war years in Yorkshire.