fat charlie was only ever fat for a handful of years , from shortly before the age of ten , which was when his mother announced to the world that if there was one thing she was over and done with ( and if the gentleman in question had any argument with it he could just stick it you know where ) it was her marriage to that elderly goat that she had made the unfortunate mistake of marrying and she would be leaving in the morning for somewhere a long way away and he had better not try to follow , to the age of fourteen , when fat charlie grew a bit and exercised a little more .