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Tag Archives: Guildford
The Secret Diary
Until the age of seven my life was a bit of a blur; I don’t mean I can’t’ remember much, it really was blurry as I was diagnosed with myopia, severe short sightedness of minus 6. Looking through photo albums … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Childhood, Current affairs, History, Personal, Politics, Sport, Thoughts
Tagged 96, Adrian Mole, Anfield, Boys from the black stuff, corruption, eighties, Grange Hill, Guildford, Harry Enfield, Hillsborough, Joe 90, Kop, Liverpool, Liverpool FC, Loadsamoney, Miners strike, NHS, Nottingham Forest, Phil Redmond, Steven Gerrard, Sue Townsend, thatcher, Todd Carty, tory, Trisha Yates, Tucker, YNWA
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Bang Bang
I have painful memories of suffering dictation at school in the late 70s and early 80s; Mrs Chowney our geography teacher was particularly fond of this cruel sport, every week she had our class listening to her monotonous drone, making … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Education, History, Personal, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged ADHD, banger, chinese fire cracker, Chowney, commando, cruel sport, customs, dictation, Fincham, Francophile, frenc h exchange, gian redwood, grassy knoll, Guildford, headmaster, journalist, Lady Luck, Laurie Muir, lone gunman, Mrs chowney, petard, Peter Carey, Scottish, sexist, squirrel, St Peters, St Peters and merrow grange, Surrey, teacher, TR7, UK, writer
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Memories on Wheels
30 years ago I started a game keeping apprenticeship. The only problem was that it meant a daily 18.5 mile each way cycle ride (yes I measured it). I bought an ancient Honda C90 scooter and what an evil contraption … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Childhood, Motors, Personal, Technology, Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged 4x4, A25, Albury, Almeria, Andalucia, Arboleas, big end, Black Maria, car dealer, cassette, cycle, environment, Fiat, Fiat 500, game keeper, Guildford, holiday, Honda, Kia, Lady Luck, London, musis, oil sump, Peugeot, pimp mobile, Punto, rambla, Riva, Rover, sirocco, Spain, stolen, theft, Toyota, UK, VW, West Ham FC
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Oh what a lovely war II
As a young boy in the early 1970s I watched M*A*S*H which was set in the Korean War that raged from1950 until 1953. Jolly funny it was too and only years later did I realise that my childhood laughs were … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Bureacracy, Current affairs, Education, History, Politics, Uncategorized, war
Tagged Algeria, British army, capital punishment, casualties, civilian, de gaulle, foreign office, France, great leap forward. United States, Guildford, independence, Iran, Kim Phuc, Korean War, Kurd. Iraq. Hussein, MASH, mau mau, middle-east, Napalm, Nick Ut, politics, running girl, Vietnam, war
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