Thursday, 4 September 2025

My new paper round - September 5 & 6 1975

In this spread (which you can find in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, still on sale) we learn that I've started doing a aper round and that it pays me £2 a week. All going into that Italy 1976 fund, as mentioned last month. My love of Doctor Who, Tiswas, and Marvel comics remains central to my little world. And, as we can also see, precious little of interest ever happened.

My Records For The Day range from the often replayed David Essex to the not-much-talked-about Jonathan King.





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Thursday, 21 August 2025

Saving up for Italy 76 - August 22 & 23 1975

As we see in this spread (one of a dozen in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, which is still on sale) I was saving up for a school trip to Italy in 1976. At the rate of 55p per household chore, I can't imagine the fund was building quickly, and I have no memory how much I was trying to raise. I do know the trip took place - when I dig out my diaries for April 1976 we'll see how, or if, I found time to write about it.

My love of comics has become all-consuming since the start of the year, and I'm now blowing way more than I'm earning for this Italy fund, buying Valiant, Buster, Mighty World Of Marvel, Avengers, The Superheroes every week, not to mention that David Cassidy album, which I still have and it remains one of my favourites.







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Thursday, 10 July 2025

Trek To Scotland - July 11th & 12th 1975

In this spread (which you can find in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, though I'm betting you knkew that) the family travels up to Scotland for our summer holiday. The drive to Newburgh sounds horrendous, almost as bad as the stage play Gran took us to see the next day. I was ever an ungrateful child.

My Records For The Day show the wide range of stuff you'd hear on Radio 1 in those days (the DJ line-up of which you can see in the diary). Smokey and Aphrodite's Child anyone?





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