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Diary: 11 January 1985 to 13 January 1985

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Friday 11 January 1985

Cold Dry
Spelling Test, Maths, English
Libary, Played Dominos

The shame of spelling ‘library’ as ‘libary’. Particularly as I went on to gain a MSc in Information Science in 2003. It counted as a professional qualification in librarianship.

Saturday 12 January 1985

Cold dull
Went to Newport with
Dad. Got a headboard for my
bed. Watched A film.

Did we get the headboard from MFI? I remember it clearly. It was dark pink in plush velvet, with wooden struts. Why did I need a new headboard?

Sunday 13 January 1985

Snowy Cold
Went to Sunday School.
Played tanks with Mark.
Watched television.

Day 13 and I finally mention my younger brother Mark. He was 7 at the time. He died in 2001, aged 23, of a heart attack. RIP. I have no memory of those tanks.

On 13 January 1985 soft rockers Foreigner got to number one with I Want To Know What Love Is, displacing Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?

Diary: 31 December 1984 to 3 January 1985

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Monday 31 December 1984

Dull, Watched t.v.
Played a game

I decided to start with a summary of the weather. I continued this for every day of the diary.
It doesn’t sound like the most thrilling New Year’s Eve, but I was only 9.

Tuesday 1 January 1985

Cold dry
Nan came down, played a game
Uncle Chris came down, went to
MFI. A.Sheila came with are presents.

Uncle Chris was my dad’s younger brother. He had a car. My dad didn’t, and I never knew why. 
MFI was a chain of furniture shops which lasted from 1964 to 2008. I remember it being “cheap and cheerful.” Did we buy anything?
Aunty Sheila was my dad’s aunt. She lived in Cowes, two miles away. Did we get presents for New Year? We would have got Christmas presents from her the week before. Are/our: I was only 9. Look at my neat handwriting.

Wednesday 2 January 1985

Cold dry. Nan came down,
played games.
Watched television.

I refer to both my dad’s mum and my mum’s mum as Nan throughout the diary. This was Connie Jones, my mum’s mum. Her husband Bob died in 1981 when I was 5. She lived by herself in Newport, three miles away.

Thursday 3 January 1985

Cloudy Sunny
Watched television
Played with lego and a game.

Was it more cloudy or more sunny? Or an equal amount of both?
The perennially popular Lego. What game did I play? I wasn’t big on details back then.