1978 April/May week 18

Sunday 30^th April

Got up at 10.30 am
Feel Yuk cos I have got Sam’s cold (well you could see that happening)
Mar is still in a paddy with me about last night
Did Maths revision all afternoon
Bev phoned Jack was round at her house he has come up for the weekend from Oxford. (beautiful city)
Sam phoned.
He came round at 7.15.
Went to Tiffany’s at 8.00 pm = ok
Came home at 11.10 pm

Monday 1^st May

Public Holiday
May Day (wow wee)

Got up at 10.00 am
Went to Sam’s grandparents. Met his grandparents = ok
Sat in their back room all afternoon
Stayed for tea
Came home at 6.15 pm
Sam & my brother went to see Liverpool v Man City
Liverpool 4 v Man City 0 (ha ha)
Revised my Maths. Don’t think I know enough to pass tomorrow

Tuesday 2^nd May

MATHS C.S.E. 2
2 hrs 10 mins start 9.30 am
Sad Café concert 7.30 pm

Have failed my Maths with flying colours = quite hard
Sam met me at 2.30 pm after English
He left at 4.00 (avoiding my Mum I expect!!)
Washed my hair
Went to the ‘Brick at 7.00 pm
Sam was late.

Sad Café = brilliant

(must say I have had many a lovely smoochy to this record & also shed a tear or two over it too!)

Played pool in the ‘Brick afterwards
Got home at 11.00 pm

Wednesday 3^rd May

Bev was skiving off this morning cos she has Physics & cookery exam this afternoon
Went to town with Sam
Got my wages £4.00
Came home at 5.30
Phoned ‘J’
Sam phoned. He was in Formby with all his mates
He is meeting me tomorrow
Practised my French Oral

Thursday 4^th May (20 weeks)

Went to Kim’s house during Art lesson and there was a fire drill. Teacher covered up for us (good ol’ Mr. ******)
Went out at lunch time
Bev, Fi & Jackie went home at dinner time cos of exams tomorrow
Sam met me from school & left at 5.15
Did French & English homework
Phoned Sam

Friday 5^th May

Boring day at school don’t know why I bothered going in, did no work at all
Sam met me at lunch time & after school
Weather = hot & sunny
Met Sam in the ‘Brick at 8.00 pm
He beat me at pool then we went to the El Tonel & bought a bottle of wine for £2.45 (what does a bottle cost in a wine bar now? About £12.00 upwards)
Got a bit tipsy
He asked me to marry him again (ha!)
There was a fight on the train on the way home = kept well out of the way of it

Saturday 6^th May

Worked 10.00 – 6 pm on ice creams all day
Got to work at 9.30 am but they didn’t need us ‘til 10.00
Me & Bev went to the ‘Brick and played pool
Got home at 6.35
Sam round at 6.50
Went to the Natterjack = quite good
Really tired. Got home at 11.15
I love Sam (arrrr!)

1978 April week 17

Sunday 23^rd April

St. George’s Day
Mum’s Birthday

Got up at 11.00 am
Gave Mum her ‘Equalla’ moisturizer and L’aimant’ perfume
(so it wasn’t Tweed!)
Bev, Fi, ‘J’ & Sam phoned
Fi = cracked up on Chris (huh ????)
Sam came round at 7.15 pm
Went to ‘J’s for a natter til 9.00 then me & Sam went for a walk and bought a bottle of cider (oh no that slippery slope!)
He left at 11.00
Did some Maths revision this afternoon (faint)

Monday 24th April

Went out of school at lunch time and met Sam
Bought a pie & an ice bun 24p (Jamie Oliver we ate rubbish them days too if we could!)
Sorted out our English assignments.
I have entered :- comprehension- Suburban Survival Course: Hijack: My Home Town: School Memories: Do we Live in an Age of Violence? = ACE (honest) (I remember this was the first year that they tried this a sort of continuous assessment and not wholly exams)
Phoned Sam at 8.10 pm
Went to tutor at 4.30 = Linear programming (What??)
Did 1 ½ hours Maths revision

Tuesday 25^th April

No lessons this morning
Me & Jackie went to the village.
Dis 2 hours Maths revision, still don’t think I have done enough
Sam phoned at 9.45 pm
I missed him today

Wednesday 26^th April

MATHS C.S.E 1 2hrs start 1.30 pm

Got up at 10.00am
Washed my hair (good exam prep)
Sam came round at 11.00 am (even better exam prep hee hee )
Went to school at 12.30
Exam started at 1.40 pm
It was ok not as hard as I thought.
‘J’ phoned
Sam came round at 7.10 pm
Went to the offy & got a bottle of cider & 50p refund on some bottles (recycling at its best… why doesn’t that happen now… money back on empties? As a small kid we used to think it was ace to go to the shop and get money back off pop bottles also taking the empty glass soda siphon to be exchanged for a full one)

Sam went home at 11.00 pm

Brian & Michael STILL number 1 (terrific!! Thought I would post Oasis’s version instead of the original … it’s not much better)

Thursday 27^th April (19 weeks)

School
Went to the village in the Art lesson on a message for the teacher with Bev.
Sam met me at lunch time & he met me after school
Didn’t do any lessons in the afternoon, don’t know why I bothered going in.
‘J’ phoned, we are going swimming tomorrow
Sam = full of cold so he will just spectate (aww man flu!!)
Phoned Sam at 9.00 pm
Had a bath
£4.00 wages

Friday 28^th April

Went to the village at lunch time
Fi brought Heidi to school again
After school went swimming with ‘J’
Sam is streaming with a cold so he just watched.
Got home at 6.30.
Sam stayed for tea
Washed my hair the me, Sam and my brother went to Fi’s at 8.20
Had a ride on Chris’s moped to Rotten Row = ace
Got home at 11.10
I think Gail fancies Sam but she can hands off

(Rotten Row is well posh I am sure they appreciated teens on mopeds …. This is the write up from the Sefton Councils site

Victoria Park & Rotten Row

Home of the Southport Flower Show, with Rotten Row considered to be the longest herbaceous boarder in the UK. The Park has new play area, croquet lawns, 3 bowling greens, minature train club, small pond, boating lake and some ornimentail planting.

(it was a direct cut and paste from the Councils site so that isn’t my spelling of miniature or ornamental !!)

Saturday 28^th April

Worked 10.30 – 6.00
Sam came to see me at work
He bought me ‘Too Much, Too Little, Too Late’ by Johny Mathis & Denise Williams

New girl started today
Sam met me from work. Came home at 6.45pm
Had my tea & Sam went to the Railway in Ainsdale then came here
We were going to go to the Natterjack but I was too tired.
Mar was out & when she came back she was cross- examining me left, right and center. Don’t know what she thought was going on ? (erm!!)

Thank you FMB

Well I was truely amazed when I won the Friday Fun competition & then to find out there really was a prize took my breath away.

Then a bit of panic set in as I realised that it was going to be something random out of Kevin's cupboard & Sylvie held no responsibility for what maybe selected...... what would it be? Maybe an old sock all the way from La Rochelle. How would I explain to my teen why I would be getting an old sock from France!!!!!! Oh yes it could be an iPod cover
I had my 'cover' story ready

Anyway today, after a hard days graft, I came home to find a white envelope on my door mat from that well known French town of Ware!!!!!???? (oh and a package up video from my Mum, last weeks episode of 'Casualty' - my video won't record!!)

Oh what a prize it contained!!

The Good Wife's Guide 1955

Thank you so much Kevin & Sylvie I realise now (& I am sure you will agree) with my immaculate manners, wistful feminine ways and total respect for the male of our species I was born 25 years too late

1978 April week 16

Sunday 16th April

Got up at 10.30 am
Woke Sam at ¼ to 11.
He left at 5 to 12
Bev phoned
Stayed in all afternoon
Did some French Translation (Sylvie I was trying )

Washed my hair
Fi Phoned
I phoned Bev (lasted 8 minutes) (big brother must have been paying the bill still!)
Sam came round at 7.15 pm and left at 11.00.
We went for a walk around the village
After tea I went to see Kate’s Wedding presents (I remember the day after my wedding a constant stream of people ‘oooing & arrring’ at the presents saying ‘oh haven’t you done well’ I felt like a competitor from ‘The Generation Game’ I was so knackered with all the run up to the wedding I just wanted to have some peace and sleep!!)
She stayed in the Atlantic Towers for their wedding night

Monday 17th April
Boring day at school
Percentage mark for my C.S.E assessment = 74.25% (possibly Maths or maybe German)
Went to Maths tutors
Phoned Sam
His new number is 051- *** -****
He phoned me back later
Party at Tiffany’s but I was not allowed to go

Tuesday 18th April
Had an English comprehension test on the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ (one of my very favourite poems still it is one of the most powerful 1st World War poems that graphically captures the awfulness of what occurred)

Sam met me from school. Bought Mums birthday card
Sam left at 5.15
Phoned ‘J’
She had been to Oxford for the weekend and had a great time
Sam phoned at 8.30
My brothers divorce comes through tomorrow

Wednesday 18th April

School
Went swimming. P.E. teacher gave us a lift in his Capri.
Sam came swimming as well
Bev phoned she was in tiers (yes tiers not tears) as David is going back to Eton (I have no recollection about who this David was but hey I rubbed shoulders with some one who went to Eton!!)
Mike E rang her to ask her to go out with Chris G I think she should as it will help her get over david.
Sam phoned – my heart throb (ha!)
England 1 v Brazil 1
Brazil = dead dirty players

Thursday 20th April (18 weeks)
Fi brought a Canadian girl to school called Heidi, she was ok but a bit strange (sorry Frac) She was from Toronto. ( Fi’s parents were really into having exchange students and I remember being so jealous as I would have loved to have had the opportunity to do that too)

Bev still in tears over David going back to Eton
Sam met me from school he got in trouble thru’ kicking a football at some fella’s car (how annoying is that as an adult)
‘J’ phoned
Sam phoned
He seemed in a strange mood
Washed my hair (that’s the answer girl….. I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair)
& put it in a side parting lokks ok but I bet Sam won’t like it (doh ;-( )

Friday 21st April
Skool
Got my O’level timetable
Had a lecture about our exams of French teacher (witch queen)
Went to town and bought Kate’s dad’s birthday presy (beer shampoo, Denim talc &deoderant)

Bought Mum some perfume (I bet it was Tweed by Lentheric. )

‘J’ rang
Met Sam on the train
We all went to the Art Centre, ‘Brick and Houghton.
Sam asked me to marry him. I wish I could but not for a few years yet (WTF!!!)


Saturday 22nd April
Worked from 10.30 – 6.15 pm
‘J’ came to see me at work
Her sister is going out with Martin’s brother
Sam came round at 7.45 pm
Had a good time (eeeek!) but I am really worn out after working all day (oh too young to be too worn out for........!)
Sam left at 11.00

1978 March week 15

Sunday 9^th April

Sam comes home (Yipee!!)

Got up at 10.15
Phoned the café but they weren’t opening (obviously another wet horrid day)
Tidied my bedroom and played darts with my brother. (I loved playing darts, in fact this put me in good stead for the future. I played for a ladies darts team (we were a refined lot G&T’s not pints) and I was their captain for years. In my loft I have an array of tacky trophies for all the tournaments I won (180, least darts, Captains cup, league champions etc……. I even won a years free drinks in a pub once when this bloke challenged me to best of three and I won …….. ahh those heady days lol)

Bev phoned at 7.15
Sam phoned at 7.00 & he came round just after 8 (like a mint???)
He bought me a little leather boot, a small bottle of wine and some sardines (SARDINES??? Well I suppose Portugal is famous for them)
Didn’t realize how much I had missed him until I saw him tonight (erm read back in your diary)
‘J’ phoned after seeing ‘Annie Hall’

Monday 10^th April

Tutor (Maths) 4.00 pm

It snowed last night
Got up at 10.50
Sam came round at 11.00 (mmm? only 10 minutes after I got up!!)

Made him an egg omelets = YUK! (1. can you make an omelet out of anything but eggs & 2. hey I had not done my A’Level in cooking yet)
He left when I went to my tutors at 4.00
Bev phoned she was having a get together but I didn’t go
Sam phoned. He is meeting me outside the Classic at 7.00 tomorrow
Watched a film called ‘Heist’ with Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn (apparently it was called Dollars in the US ...............'Join Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn in the heist of the Century in this suspense-packed romantic thriller! Joe Collins (Warren Beatty) is a charming American technician installing a new security system in a Hamburg bank run by Mr. Kessel (Gert Frobe). With the help of Dawn Divine (Goldie Hawn), a feather-brained hooker with a heart of money, Joe masterminds a scheme to beat the burglar-proof system from within. According to the intricate plan, they’ll steal only from the criminally rich, including a kinky attorney (Robert Webber) and a racketeer, Sarge (Scott Brady). Everything clicks for Joe and Dawn until the brutal victims discover the theft and pursue them in a riveting chase across a frozen lake')

Tuesday 11^th April

Back to skool Skull =ok ish

Got 92% for an algebra exam (well blow me down doubt I would get 2% now!!)
Met Sam outside the Classic Cinema at 7.10. He was 10 minutes late (oh obsessive ‘time’ woman)
Went to see ‘Annie Hall’ = quite good 6 ½ / 10 (oh that Annie Hall look.. the hat & masculine clothing but looking fabulous.. the waistcoat & tie!!)

Came home at 11.00
Watched Elvis Costello on the Old Grey Whistle Test (& whispering Bob Harris!)
Number one still the same as last week (oh deep joy)

Wednesday 12^th April

Went to school
At 2.30 came home then went to town .
Got copped by the big guy on the station for not paying at Ainsdale.(oh so you were trying to bunk the train then? Tut tut )

Met Sam at 3.00 pm in the ‘Brick
Then we went to change Mum’s handbag & I got me a pair of grey stilettos £10.99 (they were such lovely shoes, suede and leather) & a hat for £2.50 (it is quite amusing 31 years later the last pair of shoes I bought were £8.00!!)
Then we went for tea in the Arts Centre

Got £7.00 wages
Phoned ‘J’

Liverpool 3 v M’ Gladbach 0

Thursday 13^th April (17 weeks)

Went to school
Sam met me afterwards
Phoned ‘J’ we are going swimming tomorrow
Sam phoned. He was busy packing cos they are moving tomorrow

Fi’s boyfriend finished with her yesterday after 1 month 4 days (those 4 days are so important!)

Friday 14^th April

Sam moves to his grandparents
Went swimming after school with ‘J’ , Sam and Fi
Bought some ‘Almay’ mascara £1.25 (current RRP £4.00 so things are relatively cheaper nowadays)
Got home at 6.45
Went to Formby at 8.15
Helped clean Sam’s house
Stayed there until 10.45 & got the train at 11.15

Sam now lives in Waterloo
‘J’ & Martin = 3 months

Saturday 15^th April (4 months to the date)

Kate’s wedding (incase you are not with the whole diary read.... Kate is the daughter of my Mums 'boyfriend'.. my dad died aged 44 in 1967 and Kate's dad found my Mum some 6 years later and was her constant companion for 25 years)

Got up at 8.30 am & had a bath.
Went to the hairdressers at 9.30.
Hair not too good.
Went into town to see my brother be best man at his mates wedding at the Town Hall (now this was a strange wedding as my bro was once a Teddyboy and the groom still thought he was!)
Went to church to see Kate’s wedding = ok
Sam came round at 7.30 & we went to the Parish Hall to the night do = quite good
Kate’s dad gave us £5.00 between us for drinks

Got a bit drunk = 6 Martini’s (if you can remember how many drinks you had you ain’t that drunk lol)
Sam stayed the night in the front room. Went to bed at 1.30 am

(there is a photo of me somewhere at the wedding wearing a floral shirt, gypsy top and those grey stilettos... will have to hawk it out !)

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1978 April week 14

Sunday 2^nd April

Sam goes to Portugal (sob) 1.30 pm from Heathrow.
Got up at 10.30
Worked form 11.30 – 5.30
Miss Sam already (god he has only just left)
I am going to be really bored this week without him
Don’t know what I would do if he finished with me (I know what my mum would have done… a merry little dance!)
Little chance of that happening I hope
Went to bed at 10.30 after watching “A Play for Love” called ‘Games’
Phoned ‘J’ & Bev

Monday 3^rd April

Interview at Tech at 7.45
Worked form 11.00 – 5.30
Met ‘J’ at dinner time cos college went back today
Went for interview had to wait ½ hour.
Met this girl called Moira = good laugh.
Went to the ‘Brick afterwards with my brother and her
At Tech next year (provided I get 3 O’levels)

I am taking Sociology, Business Studies, Cookery & Nutrition A’levels

Tuesday 4^th April

Got up at 9.00 & washed my hair

Got a Christmas card ?? off Sam. He had posted it on Saturday before he went away, inside was a mad letter, it really made me laugh. (awwww!!)
Phoned up the café but wasn’t needed.
Did English revision (What!!!!)
Had a bath
Bev & ‘J’ phoned
Brenda, our manageress last year rang, she wants me to do a coffee morning 15/4/78 = can’t cos of Kate’s wedding.

Wednesday 5^th April

Dad’s Birthday – he would have been 55 years old

Hairdressers (Crimpers) 12.00
Got up at 10.00
Went to the hairdressers had a demi-perm cost £3.85 looked but after a windy day = a bit of a mess.

Went to town with Mum. Bought a skirt £7.99 and a gypsy top from Marks £4.99
Mum hates the skirt = massive row (yes as a Mum of a teen I know how that is … sorry Mum & on Dad's birthday too!)

Mum went to the Crem

Phoned Bev = wasn’t in
Phoned ‘J’
Got £8.00 wages

Bought Elvis Costello ‘this Years Model’ £2.99 (what an absolute fabulous album, must get myself a turntable)

Brian & Michael No.1 – Matchstick Cats & Dogs a tribute to Lowry (God I hate this song to this day)

Thursday 6^th April

Got up at 9.00 am
Worked from 10.45 – 5.45
Bev came to see me
Met ‘J’ at lunch time
Got home at 6.10

Watched ‘Top of the Pops’ (It was presented by Noel Edmonds)

Tried to do some Maths but didn’t succeed
Missing Sam = so boring without him

Friday 7^th April

Got up at 11.20
Met ‘J’ at Art College at 2.30
Went to the swimming baths (now a private health place) at 4.00

One of the girls at Art College gave me 2 photographs of Sam she had taken as part of her project = one nice, one not so nice but I am not complaining.
Still not heard from him yet perhaps he has run off with some sexy Portuguese woman
Bev phoned
Did some more Maths papers (wow I must have been bored)

Saturday 8^th April

Didn’t work weathert not so good.
Went to town with Bev.
Bought Mam’s Birthday presy ‘Equalla’ moisturisure £2.50.
Looked at stiletto shoes as well (ooo just looking and not buying … not good, glad I got over that as I got older)
Stayed in all night

Watched a horror film called ‘Countess Dracula’ til 1.30 = a load of rubbish

Sam comes home tomorrow (YIP!)