30th November 1979

Friday 30

Sam comes up
he arrived at 7.30pm
Went to the flicks to see two films
Went to Follies (nightclub) with my brother and his girlfriend = ok
Went for a long walk along the promenade = cold (mmm November on the sea front in the NW of England is darned cold in the wee small hours..)
Home at 1.30 am

I watched 'Strictly Come Dancing' dance offs earlier (good decision to keep Rachel in although Christina has done amazingly well. Still hopeful that Austin will win though).

As the camera panned around the audience I spotted 'the Fonz'
I said ' hey the Fonz is there!'
My teen said 'who on earth is 'the Fonz'?'
I said 'the Fonz. Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli, Happy Days'
Teen said 'Huh?'
I sang 'Monday, Tuesday Happy Days, Wednesday, Thursday Happy Days tra la la tra la la ... something something .. the week for you!'
This was received with a blank look.
I went on to explain that my dish of American programmes in my teens included Happy Days ..
Still a blank look
So I rooted out the Jackie Annual from 1978... 'this is him'
'well he looks nothing like that now?' teen said
'erm it was 30 years ago when I was the same age as you are now!!'
She proceed to look through the annual .... making comments like .. OMG what is that makeup about? Tell me you never went out dressed like that? Is that Noel Edmunds? How old must he be ?



I loved Happy Days, it was one of my regular T.V. watches then. Teens having fun in middle class America in the 1950s/60.
I guess the Fonz is a kin to your teen bringing home a 'hoody' and then realising they ain't that bad underneath ... once you get past that cocky exterior!!

29th November 1979

Thursday 29
Cooked from 8.30 = knackered (oh come on it wasn't exactly Master Chef!!)
Skived off the rest of the day (god I hope my Mum doesn't read this .. oh or my teen come to think of it lol)
Did 1/2 of Sociology essay
Wrapped Corinna's Crimbo pressy
Phoned Sam
he wasn't very interested cos footy was on.

Well we are almost into December and only one month left of 70s teen years diaries. Can't visualise myself as 80s teen (although I was for a 2 years of the 80s)... must decide what tack to take with my blog come 31/12/1979???)

During December I will be posting extracts from my cousins e mail advent calendar. (CKX you should start a blog ... ) If any of you can remember from last year it is a mixture of the weird and wonderful, including games, pictures and bizarre web pages.

here is a taster from CKX of what is to come....

Are you at a loss of what to buy the man in your life this Christmas.... try these ........ yes very wrong!!
or how about some meat water...... eeeew!

what about a new tattoo in 3D?










Oh and from my brother .. some reasons not to own a cat lol (all the below I have witnessed with my two now elderly cats)

1. They stare with the exact same expression whether they are looking at nothing or an ax murderer.
2. They wait till your their human lays out their clothes and decide this would be the perfect place to take a nap.
3. They race through the house, hair on end and stop in an attack pose. Then walk of nonchalantly. Repeat as necessary.
4. They play with invisible objects.
5. They wait till their human is asleep and jump up and start kneading any available body parts.
6. They do a figure 8 through your legs while you are walking around the kitchen cooking something they won't get a bite of.
7. Before you get out of bed, they will make sure they are napping in the bathroom doorway on on the stairs.
8. They leave gifts of small animal body parts. Then wait to be praised. Stalk off if not rewarded for your gift.
9. If you absolutely have to go to the vet with them, they cling to your head with oh so sharp claws.
10. They wait till you are eating, then jump on the table and shed fur.
11. Using the litterbox at mealtimes appears to be great fun to a cat.

27th & 28th November 1979

Tuesday 27
Skived Sociology
Business Studies lecturer was away
Got a letter of Stan & the Insurance Institute (huh?? I can only think it was something to do with Business Studies??)
Going to Northampton next Friday to a do maybe?
Phoned Sam
He wasn't too happy when I said I wasn't going to his this weekend

Wednesday 28
Dentist 2.45
had a small filling
Prepared cookery stuff = boring
Sam phoned at 4.00 and 11.10
May not be going to Northampton cos of expense.

It is the last Friday of the month ... so that means T-shirt Friday with Nurse Myra.
Gosh the next T-shirt Friday will mean Christmas is over !!!

This T-shirt I bought in 2000 from the Warner Brothers Store in the Arndale Centre, Manchester, sadly the store is no longer there. It was great.

I bought the T-shirt because 1 it was in the sale and 2 Penelope Pitstop was a nick name I picked up in my former job (much prefer that to Ma'am...lol)
Also as a teen I loved the Wacky Races cartoons with Professor Pat Pending, the Anthill Mob, Dick Dasterdly and Muttley












Penelope also branched out with the 'Perils of Penelope Pitstop' just check out her running technique lol

25th & 26th November 1979

Sunday 25
Brother's girlfriends 22nd Birthday
Ice skating 2.00 pm
Went ice skating with Fi, C, Debs, Chez, Bernie & Ann = fantastic
Phoned Sam in the morning = really nice
Phoned Sam in the evening = really grotty
I hate him when he is like that

Monday 26
Only in college for 1 hour
Sociology cancelled
Ann came for dinner
letter off Sam = nice
Bought some Crimbo pressies
Sam phoned at 11.15 = lovely (what a difference a day makes)

Had a busy, tiring day in London yesterday and a right old busy evening this evening.. home late, friend called round and have had phone call after phone call .... = exhausted....

Being back at work I forgot to mention that there was a change of number one on 17th November 1979.... thank goodness Lena Martell was knocked off the top slot after 3 weeks.

She was replaced by Dr Hook (originally Dr Hook & the Medicine Show) with 'When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman'... a classic 70s hit .. I wonder how many weddings this has been played at??

24th November 1979

Saturday 24
Sam in Manchester to watch footy
Worked 9-6 £7.00 wages
Stayed in all night
Haven't heard from Sam
Fi phoned


I am off to London tomorrow for a meeting. It will be a pretty long day leaving home at 7.30 and probably not getting home until 21.00. I must say that the trains to London now from Manchester are ace ... 2 hours 10 minutes. Better than flying as my feet are no more than about 4 foot off the ground.
I am also going to Horse Guards for the first time ... I am quite excited really (I am like a big kid!!) .. must remember my camera....

Today I was tagged. Yes I don't normally do them but there again I can't resist a challenge particularly as I have to challenge my tired grey cells to think of some stuff. I do think I may have weakened and done a similar tag before... but what the hell!!

The tag was from the loverly tNb at Atomic Dogma .. I am still reeling a bit as tNb reckons I understand Boney M?? I understand the shudders that go down my spine when I see the male singer in silver pants ... I can tell you it is NOT a pleasant shudder... eeeeew



If you can now focus after that horror.. the tag is

7 Things About 70s

1. I am really a big softy and cry at Lassie films, animal hospital, etc EVERYTIME. No matter how many times I have seen them

2. I once did a strip-o-gram for a leaving top executive were I worked because some one dared me

3. I now wear flat shoes more than I wear high heels (sob...)

4. I can not go out the house with out at least applying a touch of mascara (if left on a desert island that is what I would take with me)

5. I once owned a black jaguar car .. had to sell it. Sold it to tinkers for cash and next day had the police knocking on my door to say it had been used in a robbery (it was such a beautiful car too with chrome bumpers ... ahhh!)

6. I part own a hotel in Germany which we want to sell (any tinkers out there willing to pay cash lol)

7. I have a thing about stationery and craft type stuff ... (put me a shop that sells it and I am like a kid in a sweet shop.. oh B&Q warehouses have a similar effect... lol)


So now I have to tag 7 others. Normally I would just say help yourself but on this occasion I am going to select bloggers

Sylvie - because she is loverly and I think she may like to do it :-)
Olga - because she is a bra and bra's love this type of stuff
Dear Frac - as she is on her sick bed and want to keep her mind racing
Claire - coz she is a fellow Liverpudlian although she is from Widnes
Diane - coz she is a 'game' Norvern lass but living down Souff
Nurse Myra - as I would love to see her take part .. NM is worse than me with tags
John C - well OMG who knows what we may get, but it would be fun ;-)

22nd & 23rd November 1979

Thursday 22
College at 9.00
Bought a gift voucher for brother's girlfriend between me and other brother
Home at 4.30
Phoned Sam at 11.00
He'd been at home all day
Don't know why? (I bet he was skiving and had told his boss he was still on jury duty....)

Friday 23
Skived Sociology (it's a wonder I got any qualifications at all !!)
Home at 4.30
Going ice skating on Sunday
Sam phoned at 4.45
He'd been off all day again
Had quite a long natter
He said he'd ring back later but he didn't

My it has been chilly here this week end ... 30 years ago here re some suggestions they would have us wear in the winter to keep warm and still look 'trendy'.. I so remember the layered rustic look, with hacking jackets ...... loved my hacking jacket but just couldn't get along with the jodhpurs though....

I may, however, knit some of these darlings!!! hee hee !!

21st November 1979

Wednesday 21

1 year since Sam started his job

Went to Liverpool

Bought a jewellery box for Mar

Bought some material for a skirt

Sam phoned at 11.00

He has finished jury service

1 fell got 3 years, 1 got 18 months and 1 got 3 months

He asked me to get engaged again!

I am completely exhausted after my first week back at work.. it should get easier as I get back used to the routine and pressure.. maybe? Isn't it amazing how quickly we can get out of the routine.. I reckon this is the reason why many fall of the perch directly after retiring??? Only about 5% in my profession go on to draw a decent pension... however, I fully intend to be in that 5%.... even if it means buying a life support machine with my lump sum ;-)

Anyway on a far lighter note, for the weekend a few personality testers from the Jackie Annual 1976.. it doesn't take long

Apparently I am very conventional, self-centred, practical with an air of knowing I am ok as I am just doodling but a pretty boring person (maybe my teen is right I am a complete geek)

I am lucky number 7

& I am basically down to earth with a business like mind

as Meatloaf said '2 outta 3 ain't bad' ;-)

19th & 20th November 1979

Monday 19

College for 2 hours

Nutrition cancelled (sounds about right in todays society before Jamie Oliver!)

Came home at 1/3 3 (see I did typos then when I wrote ... must have been 1/2 3)

Finished Sam's jumper (ah! that is what I was knitting.. a labour of love )

He phoned at 11.00

He has been in a terrific mood (!!!!)

Tuesday 20
Cookery cancelled
Lecturer away
Wrapped Sam's presy
Thick fog outside = lovely weather honest !!!
Rang Sam
Verdict tomorrow
He says he is bored (with court I suspect?... no surely not me?? lol )

I am exhausted being back at work.... it doesn't help when the train network is rubbish. The train this morning was 30 mins late and 30 minutes late again tonight .. walking in the house at 19.00 hours (sigh!)

Coupled with the mounting work on top of the hilly stuff (not a mountain thank goodness) I have had to catch up on my return those 4 weeks of chilling have paled away into more than insignificance.
I mentioned the other day that I was booked up until Christmas at work, I fibbed slightly as I had odd few days of free space.... today they were swallowed up. I now have 3 trips to London in the next 3 weeks, there and back in a day and to my grumbling disappointment, & on immediate trains back so there is no opportunity to shop at Harrods or Liberty's pre Christmas... it's just not the same shopping online (tsk and double tsk).

Mystic Veg sent me a most fantastic link to Swedish Dance bands of the 70s. OMG they are fabulous or should I say 'fabulous but tragic'!

So thought I would share a few with you... there are loads I could chose and I could give you the link (it is in my comments if you want to peek) but I will use the images along the way as they are so right for here...

Enjoy and cringe lol

Men who wear white pants should not tuck their shirts in ... what where they thinking

Swedens version of the Bay City Rollers maybe??

Wouldn't fancy their chances if they came up against some 'real' Teddy Boys

special flying collars












The names Thor & Eric just don't go together somehow??

18th November 1979

image courtesy of Body Technology Interfaces

Sunday 18
Sam at RAC Rally
Got up at 1.00 pm (1.00pm tsk!)
Knitted all afternoon and all night (a slight exaggeration me thinks??)
Judith came round (who??)
Watched 'Juggernaut'
Sam phoned at 8.30 on his way to the pub

Found this You Tube clip of the Rally. Sam attended the opening in Chester on the Sunday, the footage is of the final stages on the Wednesday.


2 things struck me when watching it. One was the cars... Vauxhall Chevets (we had one of those but it certainly didn't drive like a rally car.. so heavy and clunky), Datsuns and Ford Escorts.
The other thing was at the end Murray Walker said that in the 3 days they had to contend with ice, snow, wind & rain ... a harsher November than we are having just now (hopefully I haven't spoken too soon!!!!)


'Juggernaut' was Britain's entry into the blockbuster disaster type movies that were so popular in the 70s... Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake etc
I went to see it at the pictures in 1975 (aren't tabs ace lol) ...this is a fab dramatic trailer for the 'Greatest Sea Adventure of all Time'

17th October 1979

Saturday 17
Work 9 - 6 £7.00 = cold all day
Phoned Sam at 7.30
Went for a drink with my brother, Stan & Mike
Home at 11.00



well my first day back at work after 4 weeks off!
My train was 45 minutes late.
It was raining and I was so cold & wet standing there waiting.
It was all I could do to resist just going home and phoning in 'still not well enough to come in!'

Got to work at 10.55 straight into a meeting that had been on going 25 minutes before my arrival. (No time to dump my stuff so was accompanied with wet brolly and wet me).
That finished then had another meeting from representatives who had come up from London for 3 hours............. not read any thing on the subject matter for at least 6 weeks!!!

165 e mails which I had managed whittled down to 95 (taking out the emails whose deadline dates I have missed to respond to and Child in Need cake sales, they made over £400, that is a lot of cakes)

I have 2 trips to London in the next 2 weeks and a full diary now up until I finish for the Christmas break
Had a back to work ... 'are you ok?' type interview........
hey ho......... home at 18.30...
so much for a gradual edge back into work... erm no chance!!


Reg Varney died yesterday aged 92 . what a good innings though?
Who is Reg Varney many may ask ?

During my teen years in the 70s I was brought up on very un PC British humour. On the Buses, Nearest and Dearest, Love thy Neighbour.
It is a bit like Miss World as I never thought it offensive then.
We laughed at the jokes about colour, creed and sexual preference and double entendre (how do you spell that?)
Today yes we deem it offensive.
Yes we were laughing at differences then .....it was certainly a very different world then... and yes very naive of us.
As an adult can see now see how it would offend but now we should be adult enough to know it was in 'humour' then and by no means with any ill intent?

On the Buses was Reg Varney's big break through. It told of life as a working man and his family in London.

16th November 1979

Friday 16

Went to Southport

Exchanged my brothers Christmas pressy (the record rack.. I wonder why?)

Got the rest of the wool (I recall that you used to order your wool, they would batch it and you would leave it in the shop to buy when you could afford it)

Met 'J' accidentally

She came for dinner

It really cheered me up (nothing has changed there in 29 years!)

Sam phoned he was in a terrific mood! (erm was that sarcasm?)

My old boy PC is playing up and I am on lappytop, so anything I have scanned is sitting on there not here as this is not set up for the scanner!

Well, all good things come to an end and I am back at work tomorrow. The Monday Blues will be bigger than ever after having been at home for 4 weeks (how fast did that go?) can't even think what I have done in that month, granted 2 weeks were taken up with mind bending painkillers....

There s some sunshine on the horizon though, shortly after I get back to work I will be getting a new team (well 1/1/09 & not before time I can tell you)..

my boss forwarded me this application he recieved last week....

Dear 70z,
I waunt to apply for the job on yur teem.
I can Type realee quik wit one finggar and do sum a counting..
I think I am good on the phone and I no I am a pepole person, Pepole really seam to respond to me well. Certain men and all the ladies.
I no my spelling is not to good but fi nd that I Offen can get a job thru my persinalety.
My salerery is open so we can discus wat you want to pay me and wat you think that I am werth,
I can start emeditely. Thank you in advanse fore yore anser.
hopifuly Yore best aplicant so farr.
Sinseerly,
BRIAN
PS : Because my resimay is a bit short - below is a pickture of me.

Brian report to my desk instantly on Monday ;-)

14th & 15th November 1979

Wednesday 14
Stayed off college today cos of flu
Sam has been calledon a rape case
He wasn't very cheerful on the phone (erm hardly surprising??)

Thursday 15
23 months / 100 weeks (the amount of time I have been dating Sam)
Off college still
Fi came round at 5.00
She brought me some wool
Miss World Contest
Miss Bermuda won
Phoned Sam
He says the trial will continue into next week

I loved watching Miss World, personally I don't see what the fuss is about exploitation etc.
Then I loved to see how they did their make up and hair, and what ball gowns they wore ... and make the occasional 'ewww she doesn't stand a chance!' comment and 'I want her to win'.

A kin today where my teen 'has' to watch 'Americas Next Top Model'.... I listen to her saying 'I don't like her, she is so ugly', 'she has got weird eyes', 'I want her to win'.... 'who do you want to win Mum?'........ I am clueless with this programme as some of the gorkiest girls look stunning when photographed by the professionals and in return the pretty ones don't seem to shine that much.....

So back to 1979.
Gina Ann Cassandra Swainson Miss Bermuda took the crown
Second was Carolyn Ann Seaward Miss United Kingdom
Third was Debbie Rachelle Campbell Miss Jamacia

Shows how strict it was in them days. Miss Venezula was disqualified when one of her boobs slipped out the side of her dress during the dress rehearsal............that was a bit harsh!

However, 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' was not so coy 1979.....

13th November 1979

Tuesday 13
Long day at college (that'll be a first!)
Bought my other brothers Crimbo pressy
feel really "fluey"
Sam still hasn't been called (Jury Service)



Gosh I know how Sam felt sitting in court all those years ago with my many years attending court... the wait is impossibly boring.. the adrenalin is pumping then nothing happens day in day out but you go home exhausted, then suddenly you are centre stage in the 'circus' that is British Crown Court... lol



I went for my appointment at the hospital yesterday and boo hoo I have to go back to work on Monday. Well I suppose 2 weeks out of the 4 I have not felt too bad although the pain is still there but lessening thank goodness.

The physioterrorists surely know how to push you through the point of screaming!!

I have so loved being at home for a change. I have cooked loads obviously drawing on the learning I had at college doing food and nutrition.. I even cooked an old favourite dish as a kid.... in fact I have doen it twice due to popular demand from my teen.



The dish is 'Scouse'. Yes the dish that gave my birth city residents their name... Liverpudlians aka Scousers.

Scouse is a very simple dish, with simple ingredients but takes about 5 + hours to cook ever so slowly.. so not convenient for full time working mums & dads.
I will be sending my recipe to populate (hopefully) a space in the Global Cookbook that Fuel My Blog are compiling..... so if you have a local recipe do join in it is a great idea.........

12th November

Monday 12

College at 9.00

Bought my younger brother a record rack for Christmas £2.30

Knitted (I wonder what I am knitting?)

Haven't heard from Sam

He is on jury service

OMG I mentioned Christmas!.... I shopped early for Christmas then? I certainly don't do that now. I do think about and then wipe it out of my head until December. Working in a city centre is an advantage combined with flexible working hours ("I am off shopping see you later") I can pop out and shop when I want to (meetings allowing of course)

It would seem I was far more organised in 1979 because in the back of my 1979 diary is a shopping list with red ticks next to the items as I bought them

Sam - Jumper £7.68
Darts £4.99
Necklace £2.50 (no expense spared on that item then lol)

Mum - Jewellery box £6.00

Youngest Brother - Record rack £2.70 (huh I thought it was £2.30?)

Oldest Brother - Cassette box £2.80 (ahh cassettes.. does any one still play cassettes?)
- Sponge etc £0.90p (etc??)

Mums boy friend - Airball £6.55 (Airball what was that?)
- Screwdrivers £0.50p (quality screwdrivers obviously)

Sam's parents - Phone book and diary £3.75
Sam's sister - bubble bath £1.50 (how much on bubble bath?)
Fi - Umbrella £3.00
'J' - bag - £3.50
Sam's grand parents - Phone book £1.50
Sam's other Grand parents - Phone book £ 1.50
Niece - £5
Nephew - £5

God how easy was Christmas shopping back then ??? Still it cost about 60 quid and I only earned £7.00 a week!! I should be uplifted by this revelation because if it cost almost 10 times my weekly salary now I would be bankrupt!

However, as a 70s adult, Christmas will not be mentioned again (I mentioned only once but I Howevethink I got away with it).. until it is appropriate.. can't guarantee 70steen won't though!

As an aside ... I bought Sam's Mum a copy of Fungus the Bogeyman in the late 70s.. it is worth around £40 now.. I wonder if she kept it??

11th November 1979

Knit a poppy

Sunday 11

Remembrance Day

Got up at 12.00 = knackered (guess I slept through the 2 minutes silence!)

Stayed in all afternoon

Phoned Fi

Sam left at 7.30

He phoned me from Lime Street

Washed my hair

I have realised that I have missed off a couple of number one hits in the UK during October. Mind you when I have looked you haven't missed much.
on the 20th October it was Buggles with 'Video Killed the Radio Star' I really don't like it but you can see it here if you must.
But even worserer a week later on the 27th was Lena Martell and 'One Day at a Time' what on earth was going on??? It stayed at number one until 17th November.......

It got me to thinking what vinyl I still have from the 70s and sadly not many.
The most affordable way of getting your top hits music then was to buy compilation albums. Many a time, however, I got stung by the fact it was not the original artists, was it Ronco that did these? K-Tel did the original artists and I have this one 'The Hot Ones' from 1978. Had to scan it in 2 as it wouldn't fit

I have no idea who some of the artists are now... I probably didn't then either... but for 49p, a bargain!

This one obviously nearly parted company from me at car boot sale at some stage but thankfully it didn't get sold hee hee ... it is such a shame I don't have one of these anymore

10th November 1979

Saturday 10

Work 9.00 - 6.00

Babysitting at 7.45

Work = easy but hard on the feet (what time did I go to bed the night before starting a new job? Didn't get home til 2.15 am. Those were the days when I could do that lol. The job was easy, not rushing about, just helping customers find the right size of jeans etc but what I hated was having to stand at the front of the shop for hours as the owner had racks of clothes on the street outside the shop.. it was boring and cold)

Sam = bored as I was working

Baby sat til 2.00 am = knackered (I bet!)

Got £2.00 (was it worth it?)

So who were they yesterday?

Diane was right with her guesses of

Alex Kingston

George Michael

Tracy Ullman

Hugh Grant

The two you didn't manage to get .....

8th & 9th November 1979

Thursday 8

Cooked this morning
Gave in Sociology assignment
Sam phoned at 8.15
Talked for about 15 minutes
Did some Business Studies
Watched T.V.

Friday 9
Sam comes up
Bought some wool (hee hee)
Sam arrived at 7.30 pm
Went to the Houghton (pub), the Snooty Fox (pub) and the Sundowner (night club)
Went my brother and his girlfriend = very good
Got home at 2.15 am


I went shopping yesterday and as is my thing I went to some Charity shops.
I love Charity shops. The original recycling plants with that added thing that others will benefit along the way.

I hit lucky. I found a 70s book and a couple of 80s ones.
I asked the girl behind the till whether they get much stuff like this in.
She said 'oh yes all the time' .. so I have left my number with them for future finds. ( Note to self- I must get some cards printed and a new bookcase).

The 70s find was about the teen magazine 'My Guy' and it cost me 20p (gawd you can't even buy a bar of chocolate for 20p here now !)

It first came out in 1978 and ran into the early 80s.
I remember buying it the late 70s as it was a bit 'ladette' not the 'cutie' Jackie stuff I was used to. It excelled itself with dramatic photo stories and gritty problem pages about losing your virginity etc.. (I do know my Mum gave it a big 'tut tut' rating at the time.)

Many 'stars' of later years had their debut in My Guy's photo stories......it must have been great fun to do

Here are a few ... can you name them??

5th, 6th & 7th November 1979

Monday 5

Back after 1/2 term

Met Sam at dinner time

Left Stafford at 1.30

Miss him already (eeew!! "missing you already" lol)

Phoned Fi & Sam

Priced up some postcards (how random? But I reckon it was the collection of Victorian postcards up to the 1950s I have inherited from my grand parents. No internet them days so it would have been from a book ... oh how last century lol)

Did some Sociology but not a lot

Tuesday 6

See yesterdays post as I read out this diary entry .. item number 22/60.

Wednesday 7

College at 11.00

Home at 1.40 (how great was college?)

Did homework all afternoon and evening

Sam phoned at 10.00 am and 8.30 pm

Can't wait to see him on Friday

Well winter is fast approaching over here. It isn't too cold just yet but it will be soon I am sure.

In the Jackie annual 1978 it published 50 ways warm up your winter (you know until I started publishing knitting patterns I never realised it had a 'startling' sweater on the cover girl). I am not going to type out the 50 but a selection from the list. It must have been money for old rope writing these things for teenagers then ... mind you my teen reads some utter 'tosh' these days too.......

Oh and these were written when life wasn't so PC as it is today.

Get in with the road mending lads, and they'll let you war your toes on the brazier. (70s ed. Gosh my mum would have gone mental if I had done that!)

Knit a vast scarf big enough to wrap around twp or three people - and share. Queueing for buses can be fun from now on

Sprinkle itching powder in your undies - the scratching, rubbing and jumping about maybe agony, but keeps goose-pimples firmly at bay! (70s ed. and any prospective boyfriend too I would imagine...)

Fall in love with a fur salesman and hint.

Always go to social occasion that have been jinxed by bad weather, bus strikes, and anything else likely to cut down the numbers attending- more boys than girls will manage to show up, and you'll have less competition (70s ed. Huh? Lads is this true??)

Make yourself a quilted outfit- but better lose weight first or you'll look like a walking Eiderdown

Be a walking hot water bottle - strap them round your waist, under your arms and inside your little woolly hat (70s ed. & just how much weight would you have to lose to look good in this little number)

Grow an extra layer of fat to keep you warm (and don't write to us complaining about it come Spring) (70 ed. Gawd no wonder teenagers get confused!)

Plaster your walls with holiday brochures, put on your bikini and use your imagination 70s ed. WT....??)

Go on, buy that Afghan Lamb coat: it'll probably smell so bad you will have to keep it in the garden shed but it's warm.

Give up surfing!

Knit knit yourself a toe-length Balaclava helmet (70s ed. ??? saying nubbin')

Wrap yourself in a sheepskin coat and bleat at the snowman (70s ed. This could be kinda hazzardous in certain rural areas!!)

Find some who fat to cuddle who isn't a fresh air freak.

Marry an Arab!

Fanzine VIII.. anything special to note??

Thursday 6th November 2008

Apologies from the Fanzine Editor for the lack of Fanzine issues of late... there are no adequate excuses for this absence. It is just tardiness on the Fanzines part...

The Ed. team have managed to put down their cups of Earl Grey and custard creams. They worked side by side into the wee small hours to cobble together this fine edition of a Fanzine in honour of 'the phenomenon that is Daddy Papersurfer (now dot com)'..... because it is his burpday ... whoops sorry Birthday, damn typos!!

For those of you who have not seen a Fanzine before (where have you been?) back issues are available on line at no additional cost.

Issue 1 ~ an introduction to Daddy Papersurfer, plus a rare photograph of the power behind the 'peabrain'... LoTG

Issue 2 ~ DP's bid for Presidency of the USA

Issue 3 ~ DP's aides, The Oscar ceremony, DP fashion accesories

Issue 4 ~ DP Day, look alikes, DP memorabilia

Issue 5 ~ DP Fantasy or Fact? plus long lost family members

Issue 6 ~ Papersurfer genealogy, the Fanclub increases in size

Issue 7 ~ DP's life story

So with out more of a do (now that's an idea I reckon the Cliff Top Residence is a great place for a do .... see you there. Vol-u-vent anyone?) ..

60 random items for Daddy Pee Pee's special day

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4. 'Hi there Daddy Papersurfer... David Essex here. Just popped by 'me old china plate' to wish you a great Birthday. Still can't take it in though that I am older than you ... Rock On you old git... '

5.6.7.8

9.*snigger*

10. Daddy P old hunny bunny... have a great old birthday you little cupboard lover you .. call me.. we must catch up [Oh my what am I saying ??]... love Uma xx

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15. Gauisus Natalis Abbas Papyrus surfus

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17. 'Hi older long lost brother. Just wondering why you have not been replying to my letters? They must have got lost in the post along with the invitation to your BIRTHDAY PARTY. Glad the Cliff Top residence is coming along fine I look forward to moving in after Christmas ... hope you have managed to insert an ashtray in my annexe.... love (cough)
Gertrude Poppersufferer'
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23.Happy Birthday from your twin Maplesurfer (are you sure you are twins .. MS you look so much more .. well ... younger? *snigger*)

24. Sent in from your adoring fans a selection of knitting patterns coz they know how much you enjoy them ... aren't your fans so kind?
25.26.27.28.
29.30.31.32.
33.34.

35. Es nos prope illic etiamnunc?

36. A fellow GOG blog

37. Hours of fun to be enjoyed here ... you know you can do it ??

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39. Tsk
40. Tsk
41. Tsk
42. Tsk

43. 'Hey there DP. Just popped in to wish you a fantastic Birthday. 70s told me you were celebrating a special Birthday. I just have enough time to post here in between massaging 70s feet and pampering her every whim... sheesh it is tough going.... Crazy Horses wahhh wahh Donny (oh and if you want to borrow my teeth for the day just let me know)

44.

Ahoy there, thought you might like this you landlubber .... Johnny (as in Depp)

45. DP relaxing .. he likes nothing more than knocking down stuff

46. or he will stand for hours blind folded ( don't try this one at home ... it takes years of practice)

47. or just sitting for hours wearing a cardboard box on his head (only try this one at home if you have the curtains drawn)

48. or taking the lovely TG on a trip to the Supermarket

49. is it time for the cake yet? I think it is?


50...... care for some babycham
51 ... let me help you with that plate of food
52....the party is going rather well don't you think??
55.... crackers?
56....tra la la la dum de dum
57 . leading up to his Birthday Daddy Papersurfer made a sterling effort to win the Presidential election ... he was unfortunately unsuccessful (on this occasion) in his quest for world domination
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60. This was pre recorded in anticipation of his victory ... but we at the fanzine thought we should still feature it today ... just give this a click

4th November 1979

Sunday 4
Got up at 10.30 = knackered
Went to the post office
Took the Afghan for a romp over the fields
Took some photographs
Went to the Woolpack
Played darts
Then went to the Saracen's 'til 11.00
Talked a lot = good

Well this is a day of history in the making.... not only is the USA deciding who should run their mighty country .. the decision the people of the US make will have implications around the world (maybe it is too late to remind you of this! but please bear this in mind if you have not voted yet!) in addition it is Diane's birthday today over at Much of a Muchness.... have a great day hun
(it is also my ex F-in-law's Birthday, who has not been too well of late... hope you got your cards from me and Teen....Happy Birthday to you too)

Oh Diane saw this and thought of you with Milo

Oh and this too as I know you love Dr Who as I do too .. so I know you will recognise this knitted chap

3rd November 1979

are you afraid yet??
Saturday 3
Got up at 12.00
Went to Stafford for an hour or so
Went to the Woolpack in the evening
Then into Stafford with friends for a chinese = good (I wonder if it was the evening that the chinese chef chased after us with his meat cleaver wavingas we did a runner without paying .. mm maybe not but in the back of my mind there again it could have been??...)
Home 12 ish


When I thought my week couldn't get better (mmmmm David Essex .. swoon) I received this charming e mail this afternoon which reads:

'Congratulations weblogger,

your internet weblog has undergone stringent review from our panel of internationally acclaimed internet weblog experts. After careful deliberation and several large brandies they have concluded that your blog not only exists but should warrant approval from our panel of internationally acclaimed internet weblog experts.'

How absolutely amazed was I? Last week I tentatively submitted my blog to be reviewed (I have never sent the ramblings of a teenager for such scrutiny before) to the World Blog Council.

I popped in to see what the reaction was over the weekend only to find that the 'shop was shut' for the weekend. Oh how I have perspired (or is that 'glowed' being a 'lady'?) over the past 72 hours or so awaiting the result of my application. I really thought I would have a big fat RED reject stamp pressed firmly onto my blog header.. what with the glittery balls, knitting patterns, bell bottoms and Donny (swoon)

But no how wrong could a gal be I got a big GREEN approval stamp yip yip yipeeeeee.

However, I do think that the panellists may have still been recovering from an excess of bratwurst and Jagermeister this Monday morning

No matter I have the certificate in my itty bitty hands without having to use the information that dear Frac found whilst fossicking whilst delivering her secreatrial duties from her sick bed (Frac thanks hun... I won't disclose any of it you sent me ... but my it made fabulous reading, it is truely amazing what you can do with a rolled up newspaper and that slide show.. oh my word... lol)

So to Colonel Reginald Fotherington-Blogworthy II CEO, MD, ARSE; Prof. Wardrobe Gruber Esq. (MA, D.Phil); Frau von Sauertraut (great hair but I think you would look great with the 'Hamill' look); Ms Ashley Tutt and last but by now means least T. Ern (are you doing Earl Grey in the afternoons?).... I thank you from the bottom of my..... bell bottoms

I would urge other bloggers to go and venture forth and submit your blogs to the WBC. You never know when you may need them.........

[I am still not sure that apostrophe should be there ... it is like the teen belonging to a 70 year old rather that the tale of a Seventies teen... but hey what do I know about grammer ?? maybe the WBC can advise?]

2nd November 1979

Friday 2
Go to Stafford
Left our house at 10.15
Got to Stafford at 12.40
Got chatted up on the way there by a fella from Sudan (my oh my do I remember that journey. This chap sat opposite me and started to ask me what is that river, what is that village etc as we passed on the train. He seemed harmless enough!... Then he said 'do you have black relations?', I said no I don't but I have friends who are black'... he said ' No I mean sexual relations'.... I didn't know if to laugh or scream.. lol. Before I could catch my breath and answer he continued ' I am looking for pretty English lady to be my wife and come and live in the Sudan with me'....... luckily we were just pulling into Stafford station and you have never seen anyone get off a train so fast ... gosh I could have been part of a harem)
Went to Hixon football club do = great
Dressed up as a school boy (I wonder if it was a fancy dress party lol)
Home at 3.00 am

Well in answer to yesterdays ' so who did I meet?'... Annie Mouse was correct on her final answer. And DP you are about to resign tee hee.......

OMG yes David Essex.. I just couldn't believe it. He is looking great for 61 years old.

His current musical 'All the Fun of the Fair' just finished at the Palace Theatre Manchester, it was his final performance so how lucky (or jammie as Annie Mouse put it) was I to be passing at the right time... ahhh swoon.
I last saw him in the flesh (so to speak) in 1979

Ah swoon......

Anyway life is so exciting just now .. last weekend I did a mini blog meet... please pop over to Fuel My Blog and read all about it

1st November 1979

Knitting for your dog!! (quite like the pink number ...)
Thursday 1
Got up at 11.00
Sam rang
Had a bath
Stripped paper off bookcase in the lounge (hey I guess we were coming out of the 70s and a wallpapered bookcase was just not 'in'...... but was it ever 'in'???) Sam rang again at 11.00 pm
Look forward to seeing him tomorrow


My dairy today 1st November 2008
Got up at 9.00
Surfed the net
Put washing in
Had a long bath, washed my hair
Got the 12.46 train into Manchester
Met up with a good friend
Went to Manchester Art Gallery
Saw a load of great art including a brilliant Holman-Hunt exhibition (I was haunted by this painting which I hate with a passion)
Also saw a fabulous display of buttons (I so love buttons, they even had a Donny button.. )
Went to get the 17.43 train home
Passed the Palace Theatre
Saw a crowd gathered at the 'stage door'
Was it ~Mary Poppins'?
No it was someone in my teen years who was second to Donny
A woman (a complete stranger) grabbed my arm (unfortunately it was my right one ... ouch and double ouch!)
'come on girl get over here' and she pushed me to the front
I stood 2 feet away from him
I thrust the programme I had picked up from the Art Gallery in his direction
He signed it and smiled
OMG!!
Bought a bottle of wine from Sainsbury's for the firework party I am going to.

Kissed my good friend farewell.
Caught my train home (with a load of man united supporters... tsk!)
Went to firework party (great hotpot!!)
now writing this.............

So who was my 2nd teen hero?

mmmm I will let you guess and will tell you tomorrow ........... maybe!! ( I am still in awe!)