Monday, May 07, 2007
Today is the 30th May Day Bank Holiday
Here's what I was doing on each of them...
1978: Enjoying my first mouthful of Space Dust
1979: Dusting my bedroom, and watching That's Life
1980: Watching the SAS storm the Iranian Embassy
1981: Revising levers, nutrition and Latin vocab
1982: Programming my ZX81 and listening to 7" singles
1983: Eating Crunchy Nut Cornflakes for breakfast
1984: Going to a lecture on Fourier Series
1985: Bored between lectures because the shops are shut
1986: Watching The Sound Of Music instead of revising
1987: Buying a fish supper from a chip shop in Hull
1988: Staying up until 3:30am preparing for work tomorrow
1989: Waiting for Radio 1's 31 Days In May siren to go off
1990: Posting a letter of complaint to British Telecom
1991: Aimlessly wandering the shopping streets of Soho
1992: Slurping scrumpy in a rural real ale pub
1993: Cleaning the flat before an unexpected parental visit
1994: Almost pulling in a nightclub, but not quite
1995: Watching the 50th anniversary VE Day celebrations
1996: Eating pork chops for lunch, and doing the ironing
1997: Buying a cassette single in Our Price Records
1998: Touring the back lanes of Leominster and Ledbury
1999: Having a thoroughly miserable day in Southend
2000: Eating roast beef and lemon meringue pie (unbeatable)
2001: Giving a wide-eyed visitor a guided tour of London
2002: Sleeping off post-transatlantic jetlag
2003: Doing lunch in town, then going to see X-Men 2
2004: Staying in and watching TV because of the rain
2005: Attending Canal Cavalcade at Little Venice
2006: Visiting the tiny Thames Barrier Visitor Centre
2007: Wasting the day away, wholly and utterly
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