18th July 1979

Come on would you put your son in this??
Wednesday 18
Wages £20.00
Weather = grotty, cold & wet (just like today grr! :( )
Worked 10.00 - 6.00
Bought a T-shirt £1.99 & a skirt £4.75
Phoned Sam = he was in a better mood
He got paid
Went to Fi's
Sewed buttons on my skirt (the button through one I had made 2 days before)
Sam never phoned back

Well it is Friday ... the weekend is here. I must say that this god dam awful weather we are having ooop Norff is now beyond a joke. I have not seen the suns smiley face in weeks.

It is difficult to keep up beat when the sky is grey and there looks like no let up ...
I have seen that b4by is suffering the ill effects of over saturation in Dublin too.
In a few weeks I will be in Madrid. Already it is topping 100 degrees.... OMG I will be like a piece of fried bacon. But at least I will have some sun on my back.

Anyway it is Friday so time for some tunes ... and no it isn't 70s music ... but rain based.

Love this song but really like this clip... very nicely done ... and 'I am never goin' to stop the rain by complaining' how true !!


A friend reminded me of this clip this week... whilst walking in the rain. Lovely & so cute.


Doodle week is almost at an end. There have been some fabulous doodles I have seen. Today the subject is 'Evil'.

OMG check out Claire's one... it scared me and oh poor Evil Willy (he is misunderstood you know!)
Doodle week has actually had me speechless in the fact that Olga has confessed to a 'body double' surely not? I hear you cry!! It is true! Olga has a body double how evil is that??

DP ~ if my great niece saw your doodle she would not go to the toilet again ... she already has a 'thing' about toilets!!
Drowsey Monkey's is evil but cute too. A fellow 70s teen and way switched on with this 70steen albeit we are across the pond!
Now Scratchbag~ I wondered if she had any evil in her and awww what a cute evil being .. so I was right :-)

My Evil has to be about Evil Willy .. EW for short or is that eeeeeewww!

He has a few things going on in his head but have some sympathy as he is about to 'fess something to Olga............

1978 July week 30

Sunday 23rd July
Got up at 10.30 am
Phoned Sam then had a bath
Started to sew up Sam’s Paddington

Sam came round & stayed for tea
‘J’ & ‘onion bum’ came round & they went ahead to the Natterjack
We followed later
2 teachers from school were in there
Came home at 10.45
Sam went at 11.15
Mar went to the Lake District today

Monday 24th July
Worked 9.45 – 6.15
Sam came to see me in the afternoon & he came home with me
Fi phoned she is just back from St. Tropez = lucky cow!

Stayed in and watched TV with Sam
My brother has dislocated his thumb

Tuesday 25th July
‘onion bum’s’ birthday
Got up at 9.00 & went to Liverpool with Sam
He bought a pair of straight leg ‘Levi’ jeans £13.99 = really good (there is something just so sexy about Levi's!!)

Went to Solitaire for lunch
Went back to Waterloo & stayed for tea.
Came home at 7.15
Mar got me a pair of straight leg jeans from ‘Mak 3’ £5.99 = great (I guess they weren't Levi's??)
Went for a bike ride with Sam
Called on ‘J’
He swopped Exodus – Bob Marely for Station to Station – Bowie (excellent swap if you ask me)
versus

Wednesday 28th July
Sam goes to Stafford
Café owners phoned to ask if I would work if the weather bucked up.
Sam came round at 11.00 and left at 12.30
Phoned Fi & she came round .. she is so brown
She bought me from France a Toulouse- Lautrec poster & 2 postcards for Sam

She arrived at 7.30 & we went for a bike ride
Sam phoned at 9.45 from Stafford me = pleased
Fi left at 10.15

Thursday 27th July
Worked form 9.45 – 6.15
Got C.S.E. results …….
Maths = Grade 1 German = Grade 2. I am dead chuffed
Weather = really hot in the morning so I bought a red & white stripey halter neck top for 75p in my luch time then in the afternoon it poured down
Fi came to see me.
She got a 1 in her Eng Lit & 2 in German
Bev got a 3 in Eng Lit & 2s in Physics & Maths
Phoned Sam 2 x but he wasn’t in
He phoned later he had been to the pub
‘J’ came to see me at lunch time

Friday 28th July
Got up at 10.00 am
Phoned work but they didn’t need me
Phoned Fi
Weather = boiling so I sunbathed = quite brown
Fi phoned at 3.15 so I biked it down to her house
Came back at 6.00
Phoned Sam then he phoned back later
Miss him
Watched a film called ‘Sweet November’ = sad (can't find the 1968 version but the synopsis I have found for 2001 version states 'emphasizes more of its story's tearjerker qualities than the original.' best I don't get this out of Blockbusters then as I thought the original was sad!!)
Made Paddington a pair of cord trousers

Saturday 29th July
Got up at 11.00
Had a bath & washed my hair
Sunbathed for a bit & then phoned Sam
Stayed in all afternoon & made Paddington a shirt (did Paddington have a shirt ??)
Fi rang
Went to the Railway in Formby at 7.20
Met up with one of Sam’s mates (no not the one I married)
Nige turned up and we went to Mike’s party
Dan crashed his car in a tree (great car it had fungi growing in it)
Sam is staying at Mike’s house
Had a great time Came home at 11.20 pm

1978 May/June week 22

Sunday 28th May
Got up at 10.30 am
Washed my hair
Sam phoned and he came round at 1.45 pm
Today is the hottest it has been for a long time
We decided to take a pique-nique (oh cool spelling!!) lunch & go to Formby beach away from the crowds
We stayed there until 6.00 pm then we came to Ainsdale
Watched The Godfather 1 it continues tomorrow = great (horses heads in beds, revenge a dish best served cold and all that .. fabulous)
‘J’ phoned, she has been pig farming today (wow) (think I prefer pique-niques myself!)

Monday 28th May
Bank Holiday
Worked 9.30 – 8.00
Weather = boiling hot again = dead busy
Came home at 8.10
Mum picked me up
Fi & ‘J’ phoned
Sam is in Stafford with his parents
He didn’t phone but I didn’t expect him to
Miss him
Watched The Godfather part 2

Tuesday 30th May
Got up at about 10.00
Did 1 ½ hours English revision

Stayed in all afternoon
Sunbathed for an hour
Sam had an interview at Bournemouth College
Al, Bev & Sam phoned
He doesn’t know if he’s got in yet
He’s in Stafford until tomorrow
I miss him
Watched ’79 Park Av’ by Harold Robbins on TV
Went to doctors with bad throat

Wednesday 31st May
Got up at 10.30
Did some Maths revision (WT is this??? I like the Q7 quip though!)
Went to Southport at 3.00pm met Jane on the bus
Went round with her.
Met Fi after Jane had gone home
Bought 2 badges (Paddington one for Sam and a Rupert & Edward one for me)
Bought at tiered skirt £6.50 & a T-shirt £1.20
Came home at 6.00
It thundered & rained & was sunny
Went to the Natterjack with Sam (of course) . ‘J’ and a few of her mates
£4.50 wages

Thursday 1st June
World Cup Starts in Argentina
Party at Tiffany’s
Got up at 10.15 did 2 hours Geography revision
Sam came round at 3.00pm.
It thundered again
Sam left at 5.00 he came back at 7.15
Watched Poland (0) v W. Germany (0)
Went to Tiffany’s = great
Had a few to drink (hic)
My brother = some girl called Sue
‘J’ = some lad nicknamed Wolf (hee hee 'J')
Sam stayed the night (on the couch)
Got home at 1.25

Friday 2nd June
Got up at 10.00
Woke Sam.
Made baked potatoes with mushroom & ham filling for dinner = ok
Went to Southport in afternoon
Beat Sam at pool (YIPEEE)
Went to Art College for ½ hour
Sam came round at 7.20
Watched Italy (2) v France (1)
France scored after 31 seconds
We then went to the ‘Brick & Art Centre
Sam beat me 2 x at pool (DAM)
Came home on last train 11.00
Argentina v Hungry

Saturday 3rd June
Revised Geography today
Phoned Sam at 12 o’clock
Had a bath
Met Sam at Formby station at 2.00
We went round Formby village
He bought his sister a pair of blue wellies £2.99
Went to Formby Gala Show it cost 40p to get in
I bought a ‘7 up’ necklace and Sam bought a ‘polo’ one
Same came round at 6.45 and we watched footy
Brazil (1) v Sweden (1)
Scotland (1) v Peru (1) (wow a draw against Peru!)
Bev & ‘J’ phoned