Saturday 20 January 2024
Snow and faded Banda - Jan 19 & 20 1978
Friday 19 January 2024
6 Million Dollar Man & er that's it - Jan 19 & 20 1976
My, someone had a whole load of nothing much going on in his life when he was 14 years old. January 1976 and you'd be hard pressed to find a less interesting couple of days of diary. A nifty, if lop sided, attempt at drawing The Six Million Dollar Man by me, and it looks like Fawlty Towers was being given a re-run which would mean me seeing it for the first time.
My Records For The Day were the long-forgotten follow up to Motorbiking by Chris Spedding (who must have been meeting the Sex Pistols for the first time about now), and Sgt Pepper, which I think I had recently bought with my Christmas money.
Wednesday 17 January 2024
Me In A Spoon & Under A Shower - Jan 17 & 18 1975
Excitement of excitement, something actually happens in this diary, and I even try and draw it. This is from the early days of what I called my Picture Diary, when I honestly thought I was going to make a comic strip of my life. Sadly this was as eventful as it ever got: me being pushed under a shower fully clad at Scouts, then having to walk home, and me drawing myself in the back of a spoon.
My fascination with what I was watching on TV was clearly worth spending more time over, with episode four of Doctor Who in Robot getting the full treatment, along with cameos from Jennie Hanely, Ed Stewpot Stewart, and Black Beauty. And, for no obvious reason, The Lone Ranger.
My Records For The Day were a couple of classics from Stevie Wonder and the Bay City Rollers.
Tuesday 14 November 2023
Lots of comics & Pyramids Of Mars - Nov 14 & 15 1975
They just reran Doctor Who Pyramids Of Mars on telly (in June 2024) and it occured to me I must have seen it at the time and recorded it in my diary. And lo, I did. Here it is, among a full night's TV, in November 1975.
Those comics I bought on the Saturday afternoon, at one of the three newsagents in Kibworth between my house and Nick's, were published by a short lived company called Atlas, and I still have them.
Despite the prominent image of Freddie Mercury to the top left (drawn by Arnaldo Putzu, clipped from the cover of Look-In, as so many pictures in my diary were, by me), and the fact that Bohemian Rhapsody was well into its run at number one by this point in the year, my Records For The Day were by the Bay City Rollers and, unbelievably, The Band Of The Black Watch.
Wednesday 25 October 2023
Tiswas, tons of TV, and that would be October 25 & 26 1975
I just posted a diary entry from 1975 that I thought was the first appearance of DoctorWho's Pyramids Of Mars, but in fact it wasn't. This is. And that's about the most interesting thing about these two days in my diary.
I seem to feel the need to be inordinately precise about exactly how many minutes of TV I've watched each day. Good job, cos I obviously did precious little else, apart from illustrate a page of diary every sodding day. Kids eh?
My Records For The Day were the woefully obscure Checking On You by Flame, and Giving It All Away by Roger Daltrey.
Wednesday 16 August 2023
Death of Elvis - 16th August 1977
Saturday 26 December 2020
Frank Ifield in Panto - Dec 26 & 27 1974
Some legendary TV on at the time, including On The Town (which we watched only a couple of weeks ago), MASH (which the Socks did a song about only last month) and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (about which I was reminiscing very recently). And this must, I assume, be the first time I'd seen Help! It was definitely the first time, and possibly the last, I tried drawing The Beatles.