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?

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 

Rutland Weekend & Shang A Lang - June 16 & 17 1975

What a slice of history this spread (which you'll find in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, six good months of use still to be had) is. Rutland Weekend Television and Shang A Lang on the telly, and Records For The Day by Gary Glitter and a white band putting on black accents. The 1970s, you really had to be there.

I see that I'm busy working on my Loony Selection Encyclopedia at this time, a comic book follow up to the previous year's Loony Buke. Very heavily influenced by the Monty Python and Goodies books I'd been getting for recent birthdays and Christmasses, I daresay these attempts at comedy writing and drawing have not aged well. Thank heavens I don't know where they are. (NB: I do know where they are, having found them when we cleared out Mum & Dad's house five years ago. I am not minded to share them with the world.)

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 

Attacked by second years - May 5th & 6th 1975

According to this spread (which you can find in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, which is still on sale, for its sins) me and persons unnamed were "attacked by bullies from 2-3". That's Year 2 form 3, at Kibworth High School. Given the way our school years were numbered, that means I'm talking about what we'd now call Year 8s. Knowing what I know about Year 8s, after my many years teaching Comic Art Masterclasses in schools, I can attest to Year 8s being quite the most horrible of years. Their beating up on a poor Year 7 (which is what I would have been) is the least they got up to, I'll be bound.

My fondness for Planet Of The Apes was evident from these page designs. I busied myself writing and drawing my own Planet Of The Apes comics at this time, which I discovered a few years ago when we cleared out Mum's house. They have yet to be shared with the world. It could happen.

My Records For The Day were obscurities by "Western Central Station" (this was, I realise fifty years later, Graham Central Station, names after Larry Graham) and Dr Hook And The Medicine Show.

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