It is another month and after all the frustrations of the last few weeks everything on the upgraded BT service is now working, like we can get phone call which only goes to remind you of the extent to which we rely on these things and expect them.
At the weekend the Chart Rundown for this last week in February 1971 as playing and I did find myself drifting back as The Pushbike Song and My Sweet Lord played out.
That was to change in a couple of months as we made the first of two moves into area with newer interstructure and your phone had its own line.
Back then I was in the last year of Infants before transferring to Juniors which was co-sited although those who read the other blog will know how we fitted everything in given the small totally unsuited building was something else.
We even sat in the road protesting until they gave us a new building! Radical,eh?
Back then it was cowboys and indians play with cap guns when not looking at the cattle in nearby farm yards, playing with miniture figures and collecting cigarette cards about various people and places from grandad.
Nan got me The Beezer and Topper although I also read The Beano but on wet playdays we read comics from the school stock cupboard so you saw some you never had like Cor.
I read most of Enid Blyton's Mr Twiddle series, laughing under the bedclothes at night at his madcap adventures and misunderstandings.
It was the year I first bought my own records one of which was James Taylor's version of You've Got A Friend and I had T Rex records bought me and in any event my older brother would play me his.
Television was very much Playschool, Blue Peter and anything by Oliver Postgate and co although we catch How! when my folks backs were turned on ATV.
Oliver Postgate's most often mentioned creation is Bagpuss. Its episode 5, The Hamish, includes a story where a kilted bagpiper invites his new friend indoors because "he was feeling cold about the knees", then he "sat by the fire hugging his cold knees".
ReplyDeleteHow was this was made for an audience many of whom were made to have cold knees too ? and nobody clicks that or comments on it.
Postgate can't have thought of the old breeches era as cold, but rather as practically meeting the socks and covering warmly, then he can't have realised what was being worn widely in 70s schools. The same as nor did some kids in the 70s, who were in the wrong place for shorts uniforms and were never told about them by the media.
If you lived in catarrhal South Wales, whose climate of permanent cold symptoms prevented you discovering by yourself that year round shorts is safe, or knowing anyone who wore them, where schools did not require it, and you missed whatever cubs might have told you about it because your grandma advised you against being a cub because you disliked team sports - if all that unfairly happened to you, you watched the same Bagpuss as thousands of shorts uniform boys outside South Wales, in a matrix where you and they knew nothing of each other's lives.