Please check out my friend Simon's blog, The Glass Walking-Stick where he's also written a post on his Top 3 Teen Punk Songs. Thanks to him for accepting my writing challenge, which I pitched to him a week ago. I had a lot of nostalgia-filled fun writing this and I can tell from his post that he had great fun writing his. So without further ado, here it is... In the process of thinking and writing about this blog post, I’ve been reminded just how important your teenage years are. You pick up hobbies and interests, sometimes influenced by your friends’ hobbies and interest but sometimes through your own exploration of your own likes and dislikes and you go on a journey with it. These years can be turbulent, confusing, messy, but the turning-over of the ground beneath you is perhaps what makes the teenage landscape so fertile for growth. I’m always reminded of this at work. The workshop is next to my boss’ house and three of his five children are teenagers. They’re ver