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[Richard1978]

On the 27th my Dad & friends would walk a few miles to a pub in the countryside, at first my Mum would drive the me & the rest of the family there & we would have a meal there. In later years she & occasionally my brother & sister would walk & I would drive to meet them &...

[Richard1978]

Me & my wife were late getting a new artificial tree as the one we already had looks a little spartan, and we were having a new cabinet delivered & didn't want to clutter up the lounge before it arrived.

[Richard1978]

Terry Paine & Ian Callaghan are still alive....

[Richard1978]

My Dad liked a lot of 1970s-80s soft rock that could be classed as yacht rock. Steely Dan seemed to get a reputation for being quality music by the early 1990s, with their songs being regularly played by late nigh DJs wanting to sound like musos. Van Morrison received similar treatment even though...

[Richard1978]

When my sister had a clearout of DVDs a few years ago I picked up a copy of Fame. I was surprised at how gritty it was in places, specially when Coco does some topless modelling. Also having a gay character was quite daring in the early 1980s, though it was in that small period of acceptance before...