1978 August week 33

Sunday 13th August
Got up at 10.00
Stayed in all day
Went to the Woolpack with Sam tonight
Watched the Austrian Grand Prix
Played a few board games
Phoned Mam

Monday 14th August
Got up at 10.00 am
Went into Stafford this afternoon
Sam bought 70p worth of postcards
I bought some lipstick & blusher
On the way there this fella gave us a lift in his Land Rover
Jolly decent of him
Bought 5 postcards for folk
Went to the Woolpack & the Saracen’s Head for drinks with Sam

Tuesday 15th August (8 months)
Got up at 10.00
Went to Stafford
Went swimming at the Riverside Centre = good
Weather = grotty
Posted my P.C.s
Went to the market and bought 55p worth of Birthday cards
Visited the Woolpack at night
Played ‘Spyring’
Sam developed a film

Wednesday 16th August
Sam = E in his A’level Art (oops)
Got up at 10.00
Had a shower
Went to Uttoxeter
Coat 90p return on the bus
Went to the market = good lots of cattle
Got home at 5.00
Went to the Woolpack and met all the rawdy natives
Helped Sam develop 2 films in his darkroom

Thursday 17th August
Sam got me up at 10.00 with a wet sponge (touché)
After dinner we went for a long walk in the country
Bought myself a strawberry cornetto, it was ace I had never had one before

Watched Top of the Pops (I so wanted to be Debbie Harry)

Then we went to the Woolpack
Had a talk about Sam going to college = both upset (what he could get in college with an ‘E’???)

Friday 18th August
Got up at 9.30

At 2.00 we walked to Bingley Hall to an Antiques Fair
Weather = boiling
Sam bought some good postcards
Walked home
Went to the Woolpack, had a martini
Last orders weren’t called & they were still drinking after 11.00
It’s a drinkers paradise

Saturday 19th August
Got up at 9.30
Sam’s parents went to Sutton Coalfield
Packed and dismantled the sun bed
Went to the post office
At 3 o’clock Sam’s dad took us to Stafford Station
Train came and it was packed
Very hot & stuffy
Went to Waterloo for my tea
Then me & Sam came here

Watched ½ of Virgin Soldiers & looked at some postcards