by hiabx | Aug 20, 1981 | 1970's, AutoBio
August 1981. Today I was round Nanny’s house, I was looking at her Sun newspaper while she was cooking in the kitchen. I opened a page and saw the werewolf from the new film American Werewolf in London. I couldn’t stop looking at the picture even though it scared me,...
by hiabx | May 20, 1979 | 1970's, AutoBio
May 1979 I was sitting up late watching Film 79 presented by Barry Norman. He showed a clip of a film called Alien, there was this man in a tunnel and a dot was chasing him while a woman was starting to cry. The music was really scary and the dot was getting closer to...
by hiabx | Mar 16, 1979 | 1970's
March 1979 Today Gillian took Jamie and me to Sainsburys in Bowthorpe and left us to look at books in the newsagent. I saw this horrible book called The Howling with a scary lady wolf on the cover, I didn’t want to look at it but I kept doing it, in the end I turned...
by hiabx | Jun 20, 1978 | 1970's
June 1978 There’s this new film that all the girls at school are mad about, called Grease. Today Teresa Brown brought her soundtrack in to play during ‘Show and tell’. It’s quite good, I found the picture of the cow on the record quite hypnotic as it spun round and...
by hiabx | Mar 7, 1977 | 1970's
I’m worried that when I grow up, I’m going to have to ask strangers if they can help me tie my shoe laces. I’ve been crying about it. Daddy made me a pretend shoe with a shoelace, to help me get it right. What If I can’t? Will I get to twenty...
by hiabx | Feb 20, 1977 | 1970's, AutoBio
A new girl has joined Mrs Murray’s class. Her name is Denise, like the Blondie song. Today I found a pink toy car car with coloured windows, the Blondie song played in my head while I played with it. The car made me think of Denise but then I stopped playing with it...
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