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A positive gold mine of reminisce provoking items. We are spoilt today for commentary choice. But I have to go now ... bother.
Malcolm | 24.02.20 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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Who's Jan?
Joho | Homepage | 24.02.20 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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28) Did they win, and if they did were the promises fulfilled?
scrumpy | 24.02.20 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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(I shan't be answering questions)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 24.02.20 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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11) ET Glow in the dark Action Transfers ... I wonder if they still glow in the dark today ... obviously I'll never know, DG, if you're not answering questions
Caz | 24.02.20 - 10:45 a.m. | #
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28) "new start for Britain" is one of those political slogans that seems to come around again and again. "New Hope for Britain" is something slightly different...
One test of the real content (or lack thereof) of a political statement is to reverse the polarity and see if it sounds plausible. For example, few parties boast about their package of nonsensical policies.
Andrew | 24.02.20 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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I sense early spring cleaning.
anonymous | 24.02.20 - 12:08 p.m. | #
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Youlgreave has a loverly Youth Hostel in the old co-op. Did you stay there?
Rick | 24.02.20 - 12:16 p.m. | #
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Several more things that I'd forgotten to remember: Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles also came in a bag, inside a box (why?); carbon-copy receipts for many simple transactions.
Frank F | 24.02.20 - 12:39 p.m. | #
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Your cunning plan to rival the Museum of Brands seems to be coming along nicely!
Cornish Cockney | 24.02.20 - 2:14 p.m. | #
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28) So near - I was born the same year as DG, but didn't get my first general election vote until 1987...
15)And despite my open day visit (to Kent) and conditional offer, it was to be another eleven years before I finally went to university ...
17,18,19) And nine before I repeatedly failed, then passed, my driving test.
Sarah | Homepage | 24.02.20 - 2:17 p.m. | #
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...me too. It's odd that everyone who takes multiple driving tests seems to pass the last one and fail all the others...
Malcolm | 24.02.20 - 3:07 p.m. | #
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Fascinating list of early 80s ephemera, but it horrifies me to see that you kept all this for 37 years! Perhaps I am not orgnised enough, or have moved house too often (14 times since 1983), but my equivalents to this are long gone. Do people generally keep this kind of stuff?
Jimbo | 24.02.20 - 3:12 p.m. | #
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*wonders whether this bag has a list of dates it was previousy accessed*
(that's a great idea that I am adopting henceforward)
And I really hope that you are not throwing all this stuff out.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 24.02.20 - 6:21 p.m. | #
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Interesting to see that unconditional offers were a thing nearly 40 years ago
Grizzle | 24.02.20 - 10:31 p.m. | #
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I remember LBC 261. It was listenable-to back then.
1) Crumbs - that was expensive!
2) Temptation to make reference to other Roger Hargeaves characters
NickW | 24.02.20 - 10:51 p.m. | #
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13) As someone with an interest in astrology, I found this snippet fascinating. Knowing that DG never posts anything without a great deal of thought, I wondered why he picked these two pieces of information to share rather than anything else in his birth chart. It may well be a subtle way of rubbishing astrology - "The interpretations for these are nothing like me, of course" - or encouragement to search for which public figures also share these placings (compare and contrast!).
Nails UK | 25.02.20 - 5:07 p.m. | #
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1) Adjusted for inflation that is £47.45. Current prices are around £30-35 (depending on if you block book) in the suburbs. The high cost of the theory and practical tests I imagine mean its probably about even, net.
R | 25.02.20 - 9:06 p.m. | #
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27) Continuing the theme, the BBC Micro valued at £300 in what I assume is 1983 now, is £1008.
If you shop around, that would get you a Mac Mini 3.0GHz CPU with 256GB Storage. Hilariously, neither come with a monitor. How times change.
R | 25.02.20 - 9:16 p.m. | #
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1) I'm 17½ years younger than DG and also learned to drive when I was in sixth form, and my suburban (albeit not suburban–Greater London) lessons were £14ph. You've been had, DG! :o
Rich Thomas | 25.02.20 - 9:27 p.m. | #
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I've gone back and read the handwriting on my driving lesson receipt more carefully, and it was a two-hour lesson that cost £13.
The one-hour lessons cost half that. Adjusted for inflation £25 (so a good deal at the time).
diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.02.20 - 9:58 p.m. | #
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A very good deal!
R | 26.02.20 - 8:29 p.m. | #
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