Tuesday, 25 November 2025

So much TV - Nov 26 & 27 1975

One of the hardest things when writing these blogs about my diaries of fifty years ago is trying to find something interesting to say about them, when almost every one was written at a time of my life when precious little ever happened. Just like this spread (which you can find in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, though I'm betting you knew that) where I do lessons at school, try to do my paper round at record speed (it seems to take 21 minutes every time), then watch telly. Compared to the start of the year, I appear to be watching lots of more telly. I believe it;s more likely to be the case that I simply didn't bother to record them in such excruciating detail back then.

My Records For The Day include one of my favourite Christmas songs, whose name I clearly hadn't learned properly yet, and a solid gold classic by 10CC.





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Friday, 10 October 2025

How many comics? - October 11 & 12 1975

This spread (to be found in My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, on sale still) shows me buying how many comics? By my reckoning I bought thirteen in a day. Buster and Vulcan are the Brit weeklies I'm still getting at this time, a jumble sale turns up a Beezer annual and a Whoopee, then there's my weekly Planet Of The Apes (two issues), Avengers and Superheroes, and I top it off with newsagent purchases of two US Marvels (Ka-Zar and Man-Wolf), two Atlasses (Ironjaw & Planet Of Vampires), and a DC (Superman Family).

Not only am I buying them, I'm producing my own. Quite how "A Star Is Born", "Battle For The Planet Of The Apes", and "In Days Of Old" turned out I have no memory, but to have three comic strips on the go at one time is quite something. Ironically, at time of writing this fifty years later, I find myself in a similar position, with four Shakespeare books all in a half finished state.

My Records For The Day are two stone cold classics which I still love today




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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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