please empty your brain below
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3) As someone not born in 1984 I am stunned you were able to claim unemployment while on holiday from uni. When you include the maintenance grant and lack of tuition fees it shows how well funded that small proportion were.
TomH | 30.09.24 - 11:29 a.m. | #
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That's what five years of Tory government got you in those days.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.09.24 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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oooh, Frogger!
K. | 30.09.24 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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11: As you chose not to specify, I'll assume that the premium line was for something quite sordid.
sheepdog | 30.09.24 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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4) I despised that Stevie Wonder song, because my mother played it endlessly on repeat. "Listen to it, Greg, just listen to it... Doesn't it just break your heart?" My sisters and I still say that to this day, and break-out laughing.
30) Oh, thanks for the heads up. I grew up in Canada, so never saw nor knew of Threads until I moved here as an adult. In North America, we had the ABC film "The Day After" which aired November 20, 1983.
Greg | 30.09.24 - 12:16 p.m. | #
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Someone kept on releasing the sausages.
Still Anon | 30.09.24 - 12:20 p.m. | #
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3) In those days, when you actually got a grant, I believe it was made clear that it didn't cover the summer break and you were expected to work during that time. The corollary of of this was you were fully entitled to unemployment benefit though one felt the staff at the employment office didn't approve.
The problem in my case was that my tutor seriously expected those that were struggling a bit, like me, to spend their entire summer studying.
Although we were greatly privileged to receive a grant (which was staying static so actually worth less each year) there was no student loan so you were pretty much forced to live within your means, bank managers taking a dim view of people being overdrawn in those days - especially students.
Pedantic of Purley | 30.09.24 - 12:40 p.m. | #
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4. I was working in BT at the time, and I remember that song being credited with an increase in phone calls.
Ian | 30.09.24 - 12:46 p.m. | #
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3) I would like to point out that it was understandable if DG didn't report his earnings to the (Un)employment Office. It creates complications especially if you need a particular document from your temporary employer on termination and they don't promptly supply it - whatever their legal obligation.
It would be even worse if you had casual or intermittent work with the same employer. Even with the best of honourable intentions, the only practical solution was to not tell the employment office.
Pedantic of Purley | 30.09.24 - 12:49 p.m. | #
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25. My first day on earth! How unspeakable were these unspeakable things?!
Taffy | 30.09.24 - 1:16 p.m. | #
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The description of the canal trip is indeed fascinating. Both as a travelogue, and also as an illustration of team collaboration in a fellow-student context. Makes me wonder who exactly decided whether you, or any other participant, was "ready" to take the tiller.
Malcolm of Kent | 30.09.24 - 2:52 p.m. | #
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As another grant recipient, it never occurred to me NOT to seek work in the holidays. Fortunately for me, suitable jobs fell into my lap - I don't think that would happen now. The past is another country.
Malcolm of Kent | 30.09.24 - 2:57 p.m. | #
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Love a canal holiday.
For Sat 29 it may well have been Limes Farm Hall. I'm not aware of a Limes Hill in the area even in the '80s.
Jon W | 30.09.24 - 6:06 p.m. | #
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6. Bruno did indeed take over Peter's show but alas that freed up time for Peter to take over Bruno's girlfriend who in turn left them both behind to become the nation's favourite telly star.
Anyoldname | 30.09.24 - 6:31 p.m. | #
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I checked the Googlable members of my canalboat party, and one now researches in inorganic chemistry, one works for the Met Office and one runs a financial insurance company.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.09.24 - 8:26 p.m. | #
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11 - Surprised DGD hasn't commented (at least publicly).
23 - Threads passed me by completely back then, so will prepare to be depressed next week.
Trevor S | 30.09.24 - 9:01 p.m. | #
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29. Limes Farm Hall in Chigwell, I think.
Crispy | 30.09.24 - 9:25 p.m. | #
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11. I didn't know so can't comment. More worried that my son was part of a group of vandals spending a fortnight on the canals when I thought it was a geography field trip...
DGD | 30.09.24 - 10:12 p.m. | #
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1984 - happy student days here too!
Also made sure I ready George Orwell's book that year!
Cornish Cockney | 01.10.24 - 2:26 a.m. | #
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