The Green 💚 Badge 📛 of Knowledge
👓 Tony DavidsonThe Green 💚 Badge 📛 of Knowledge
✅ An Oxton cockney and ➕ proud 🦚 of it, Tony Davidson speaks 🗣️ in East ➡️ End 🔚 vernacular, giving 🎁➡️ the lowdown on a childhood of tough love ❤️ among Londons street allegiances and ➕ hard ethics. Be prepared for boxing 🥊 showdowns, adventures on bird 🐦️-pulling holidays and ➕ Friday-night 🌃 pub confrontations with the Oxton Mob.Nearly barbecued while working ⚙️ on the gas ⛽️, Davidson decides to strive for the real deal: to become a London black ⚫️ cab driver. He 👤👨 shares the pain and ➕ comradeship of that elite group working ⚙️ together for The Knowledge. Cabbie life 🧬 depends on a network of tough mates protecting each others backs 🔙 against some dodgy characters.Hilarious and ➕ tender stories teem from the driver-passenger 🛳️ relationship, and ➕ between driving the frail, funny and ➕ famous, he 👤👨 tells 🗣️ of struggles with alcohol, the taxman, family 👪️ life 🧬 and ➕ the courts 🏛️ of so-called 📞 justice 👨⚖️. Davidsons humour floods the book 📚️, and ➕ despite sobering obstacles, his 👤👨⬅️ strength and ➕ loyalties shine through.
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