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22. Clockwise is a great film, it has a plot which wouldn't work today because of mobile/smartphones.
Adrian | 15.04.26 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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2. Watford beat Arsenal home and away that season. They were always a bit of a bogie team during the Graham Taylor era.
12. I saw an elderly man hit by a car and killed on the North Circular Road at Palmers Green while I waited at a bus stop. That image still haunts me to this day. That and the later knowledge that a radioactive cloud from Chernobyl drifted our way that morning made me wish I’d stayed in bed.
16. I had my first interview for the London Transport YTS scheme at the offices above Baker Street Station. It would be at the medical in July that it would be discovered that my eyesight didn’t meet the required standard.
Phil | 15.04.26 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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Really scraping the bottom of the barrel to write an interesting blog post. Unfortunately there's only so much you can right about before it gets repetitive
Grumblr | 15.04.26 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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19 - were 7th Day Adventists knocking on doors 40 years ago? Maybe it was a Watford and environs thing. The JW crews appeared plentiful then, but seem rarer now.
29 - spending time "punting with the second-best-looking student in college" would necessitate less sneaking in these more enlightened times.
Frank F | 15.04.26 - 9:22 a.m. | #
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You forgot the BBC2 revamp 😉
daveid76 | 15.04.26 - 10:35 a.m. | #
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I did not ‘forget’ the BBC2 revamp.
I chose not to include it because 1st April was busy enough already.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.04.26 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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16 - I thought London Transport had a YOP* scheme, not a YTS scheme, forced upon them by the Thatcher government.
Kim | 15.04.26 - 10:46 a.m. | #
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29. Second only to you?
timbo | 15.04.26 - 10:53 a.m. | #
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Oh this reads so much like my final year at university!!
3. Sibling's 21st birthday shenanigans. Preferred the original TOTPs theme.
15. Deja vue - but we're (semi) standing up to the current bully.
Cornish Cockney | 15.04.26 - 11:24 a.m. | #
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2. Haven't forgiven Watford FC yet for poaching Graham Taylor. (but then we've never been bought by a pop star)
The teams last met in 1981 in the Laegue Cup, two years after Watford were promoted, and the Imps relegated, from the old Division 3.
But barring a miracle, the teams will meet for the first time since the Graham Taylor era in the Championship next year.
Timbo | 15.04.26 - 1:07 p.m. | #
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Presumably unless the renaming tool place between my final year and yours the careers service was still called the Oxford University Appointments Committee.
So, Mr Geezer, you don't have an independent living, not going into the church or staying on to become a fellow, I suppose we better find you an appointment.
I assume the Emergency Career was either accountancy or software, as it was for anyone numerate but not terribly motivated.
Personally I went for software as a first choice. Apart from vaguely feeling I should have had a go at helping curing cancer I never regretted it
John Styles | 15.04.26 - 2:20 p.m. | #
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2: In todays world, your Dad's call wouldn't miss your Mum as he'd be calling the person, not the building, and he'd likely already know the football result.
But I can't help a certain wistfulness for that less hectic era.
Steve
Steve Conway | 16.04.26 - 5:59 a.m. | #
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2. Watford beat Arsenal 3-0 on 1 April 1986, which came the day after beating them 2-0 at Highbury. The games, both League fixtures, were indeed played on consecutive days.
THC | 16.04.26 - 7:15 a.m. | #
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