please empty your brain below

'A brand new DJ called Steve Wright started an evening show on Radio 1.' - and has repeated the same show every single day ever since.
:)
Wow. So much detail! But you did miss some out....
In 1991, in which publication was the Prize Crossword? Also, what were the clues you were unable to solve? I'm sure you'll find out we're all happy to assist.
I hope today is a happy one for you.
5 January 1985 - Watford 5 Sheffield United 0 in the FA Cup Third Round. I was at that match too.

There's some footage online - Premier League quality it ain't, even though the Hornets were a top-flight team at the time.
1979: Did you go to the Baker Street MacDonalds, between Bickenhall Street and York Street, or Haymarket?
I hadn't realised that bouncy castles have been around for so long
Great stuff, I remember watching V very late at night too. Still waiting for the follow up as I recall it finished with the Earth in a bit of a pickle.
Did you ever find the The The album? Were you ever into The Chameleons ? Again, our very similar life trajectory has me asking for a post on your favourite bands/top album of each year since '65...

This trip down memory lane has really distracted me.

cheers!
As a journal keeper I enjoy doing this sort of thing too.
Sadly not nearly as interesting as yours, for anyone else to read though.
"The Horns of Nimon"

There's bad-bad and bad-good. I'd say it's bad-good. So much scenery chewing from Graham Crowden that it's surprising he didn't get indigestion. Though I'll admit The Pirate Planet is much better for enjoyable over-acting. The Armageddon Factor is still the worst Tom Baker episode, because you can *see* the money's run out and the actors don't care any more.
Ooh, Repton. Son2 bought me a genuine Superior Software download for Crimble. PC is ok, but has steeled the resolve to restore my genuine Acorn hardware.
I keep wondering what expensive audio gear you bought in 2002 and recycled in 2018.
An iPod?
Hope there's no one from Lowestoft, or even Haverhill reading. Scarfolk?
On 5/1/79 I was already back at school - the last year of 6th form - recording that “we had as usual a day as you could get at school. The ice is beginning to thaw - the radio calls it ‘the big thaw’ - some weeks feel longer than others”

On 5/1/89 a very eco-minded work colleague was predicting that "the human race will be extinct after two more generations” ...so I guess we only have one left by now. I wonder what her current prognosis may be.

On 5/1/99 I “Noticed policemen leading a person away from a ground floor flat with electrical goods. Dropped a note into the new neighbours suggesting that their missing sofa could be there too”.

I take my hat off to DG for his level of diary keeping. I do it every ten years - not having the stamina for any more than that - yet wanting to lay down a periodic record of what I was up to on a day to day basis, with occasional thoughts on world events thrown in. One's memory is quite unreliable. I don’t look at the diaries often, but when I do, I am surprised about places, names, and timings that I would not have conjured back any other way, or mis-placed by years. My entries are quite brief, so of more interest is a box file stuffed full of letters from family and friends from the late 70’s to late 90’s before emails took over. There is something about seeing pages of my long deceased father’s handwriting nattering about mundane things when he or I were away. I like that I have this store of off-line entirely personal ’personal data’ to dip into whenever the fancy might take place.
Hats off to you DG, for the keeping of such records, which often get more interesting with time.
I just found among my old diaries one that my mother kept, from 1929! It will be especially interesting to look at in 10 years time (if I survive that long). She noted nothing of general interest on Jan 5th unfortunately.
Wow. I only started keeping records in 2005 and then it was mostly where I was travelling to and how much exercise I got.
@PJS - The Chameleons were brilliant!
Monday 5th January 1981: Does no one else wonder what instrument DG plays?
@Darren...

I concur about The Chameleons :)










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