Half Term Hols & a home movie - Feb 16 & 17 1975

This spread (which you can find in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, which is still on sale, and getting less and less relevant by the day) sees me preparing to make a movie called Blunderbirds. Something under that title did eventually surface, and somewhere I have the VHS copy of the 8mm film from the time. But my plans of the time, which included space rockets and animation, scripts and costumes, in some sort of Thunderbirds parody, came to little. We ended up doing something that we made up as we went along, with whichever friends were available to play on the day.

Here's the nearest I can find to Blunderbirds, an adventure made the same year called The Blackmailers, starring Jude and her friend Alison from across the road.

My Records For The Day were The Queen of 1964 by Neil Sedaka, and one I have no memory of, My Man and Me by Lynsey DePaul.

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Richard  The Third Paperback • signed	Findlay  Macbeth Paperback • signed	Prince of  Denmark Street Paperback • signed	Midsummer Night's  Dream Team Paperback • signed
Shakespeare Omnibus Paperback • signed	Comic Tales From The Bible Paperback • signed	Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories Paperback • signed	Space Elain Paperback • signed
Book Of Esther	Who Notes	Sweet Smell Of Sockcess	Attack Of The Sausages
My 1975 Diary Calendar	Colouring Books Paperback • signed	Scottish Falsetto Socks Annual	Tales Of Nambygate

Colouring Books: Hollywood Legends, Punk, Cult TV, Eurovision Vol 1, Eurovision Vol 2, Eurovision Best Of British & Irish, 1960s Pop, 1970s Pop, 1980s Pop,  1990s Pop, 2020s Pop, Bowie, Scottish Pop, Doctors Who, Royalty, Rom Coms 

Mr Curtis and winning a bar of soap - Jan 9 & 10 1975

This spread (which you can find in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, which is still on sale, and getting less and less useful by the day) has me drawing a new student teacher, Mr Curtis, who my drawing makes look about forty. I wonder if he ever saw this drawing, and if he would have been flattered. History, ie me, doesn't say. We also learn that Mark Vickery, who went on to be a professional golfer, won a bar of soap in a competition at Scouts.

My Records For The Day were classics by Status Quo and Kevin Johnson, both of which still sound good fifty years later.

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Richard  The Third Paperback • signed	Findlay  Macbeth Paperback • signed	Prince of  Denmark Street Paperback • signed	Midsummer Night's  Dream Team Paperback • signed
Shakespeare Omnibus Paperback • signed	Comic Tales From The Bible Paperback • signed	Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories Paperback • signed	Space Elain Paperback • signed
Book Of Esther	Who Notes	Sweet Smell Of Sockcess	Attack Of The Sausages
My 1975 Diary Calendar	Colouring Books Paperback • signed	Scottish Falsetto Socks Annual	Tales Of Nambygate

Colouring Books: Hollywood Legends, Punk, Cult TV, Eurovision Vol 1, Eurovision Vol 2, Eurovision Best Of British & Irish, 1960s Pop, 1970s Pop, 1980s Pop,  1990s Pop, 2020s Pop, Bowie, Scottish Pop, Doctors Who, Royalty, Rom Coms 

"Continued from last year" - Jan 1 & 2 1975

And so we come to that time where My 1970s Diary is giving us a window to half a century ago. I started the diary in the summer of 1974, and those early pages might be fun to look at sometime. But 1975 was the first full year captured by my diary, and the year in which it developed its distinctive style. 

As you can see in the dozen spreads that I've put into My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar (on sale now), the diary goes on to record my growing love of comics. As we can see here, I'd already started drawing my own. I'm on the 16th issue of my own Planet Of The Apes comic, which I really must dig out and share some day.

Given the chance to watch TV all day, while drawing comics and fillling in this diary at the same time, certainly seems to appeal to me. Read a book child! Oh dear, too late I fear.

My Records For The Day are mostly forgotten items, the like of which you might find in a charity shop but won't hear on the radio these days.

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Richard  The Third Paperback • signed	Findlay  Macbeth Paperback • signed	Prince of  Denmark Street Paperback • signed	Midsummer Night's  Dream Team Paperback • signed
Shakespeare Omnibus Paperback • signed	Comic Tales From The Bible Paperback • signed	Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories Paperback • signed	Space Elain Paperback • signed
Book Of Esther	Who Notes	Sweet Smell Of Sockcess	Attack Of The Sausages
My 1975 Diary Calendar	Colouring Books Paperback • signed	Scottish Falsetto Socks Annual	Tales Of Nambygate

Colouring Books: Hollywood Legends, Punk, Cult TV, Eurovision Vol 1, Eurovision Vol 2, Eurovision Best Of British & Irish, 1960s Pop, 1970s Pop, 1980s Pop,  1990s Pop, 2020s Pop, Bowie, Scottish Pop, Doctors Who, Royalty, Rom Coms