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Diary: 15 February 1985 to 17 February 1985

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Friday 15 February 1985

Cold, No School,
Mum went to Work, Watched
t.v. Ann Cut Mums hair.
Played with Mark.

Why didn’t we go to school? It wasn’t snowing, so it can’t have been weather-related. Was it due to industrial action? If my mum went to work, who looked after me and my brother?? My nan probably came on the bus from Newport to keep an eye on us. At least, I hope someone did.
Ann was Ann Price, a friend of the family. She lived higher up Oxford Street, on the even side of the road. She also cut my hair. Did we sit in her lounge, or was it her kitchen? I did not look forward to hair cut day.

Saturday 16 February 1985

Cold.
Watched television,
Dad went shopping,
Played with Mark.

Two consecutive days of playing with my brother. If only I had added some detail. Did we play Lego? As well as the normal Lego that everyone knows, we alse had a lot of copycat bricks, in an off-white colour. They didn’t snap together in the same way. No doubt they were cheaper. My dad worked full time and my mum worked part time. We weren’t impoverished, but the choice was often ‘buy cheap’ not ‘buy quality’.

Sunday 17 February 1985

Cold, but sunny,
No Sunday School. Watched
television. Dad went out.
Did Butterfly embriodry

That’s a brave attempt at spelling embroidery.

Diary: 28 January 1985 to 31 January 1985

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Monday 28 January 1985

Cold, Windy,
Wrote our spellings, English,
Maths, Music, P.E, Watched t.v.,
Mark’s friend came down.

Who was my brother’s friend who attended this after-school play date? Was I jealous I didn’t have a friend of mine there too? Looking back at the first month of this diary, I had no friends in the house. Perhaps I’ll blame it on the cold and the snow.

Tuesday 29 January 1985

Rained, Windy, got easter egg,
Went to Brownies, Nan came
down, Maths, story, Reading.
Proget. got a tooth care kit

Another Easter egg in January? Perhaps it was a small Cadbury’s Creme Egg. They were introduced in their current form in 1963.

We seem to have started a project on looking after our teeth. Not really compatible with lots of chocolate. When I was 8 I had a general anaesthetic to remove lots of my baby teeth as they weren’t coming out properly. The dentist made the decision my mouth only had space for 28 teeth, not the full 32. I remember waking up with lots of blood in my mouth.

Wednesday 30 January 1985

Foggy, Windy,
Music, Englinsh, Music, Zig,Zag,
Country, Dancing, knitting
Played lego

I never think of fog and wind as going together. I have learnt it is called advection fog. The things you learn when you start a blog.

Thursday 31 January 1985

Windy, Cold
Maths, Singing, S.R.A, knitting
Watched tv, No gym.
Had my hair cut.

Like most schools, the hall had gym equipment attached to the walls which was pulled into position when needed. The hall must have been in use for something else that day.
For some of my childhood my hair was cut by Ann Price, who lived further up Oxford Street on the even side of the road. She had a boy called Kevin who was older than me. She had a daughter who was younger than me, possibly named Jayne. We went to Ann’s house for the cut. It lacked sophistication, but might have been all we could afford.