Saturday, April 18, 2020
April 18th in years gone by
40 years ago: spotted comedian Terry Scott in the school playground
39 years ago: helped Richard make his Lego space station
38 years ago: brought the tortoise out of hibernation for the first time
37 years ago: played Cosmic Encounter during the school lunch hour
36 years ago: swept the stairs at Castleton youth hostel
35 years ago: bought a Thompson Twins cassette for £4.49 in Smiths
34 years ago: listened to Mike Read's last Radio 1 breakfast show
33 years ago: failed to avoid the first day of cricket and snooker
32 years ago: went to The Queen for pie and cider with work colleagues
31 years ago: urged Kashaf not to disassemble a tape recorder
30 years ago: changed the batteries in my grandmother's radio
29 years ago: persuaded a computer to print out a graph
28 years ago: walked round the new village spotting rooks and rabbits
27 years ago: woke up in a nurse's bed, then swapped numbers
26 years ago: bought a Crash Test Dummies single from Our Price
25 years ago: wasted a day on Lanzarote beside the hotel pool
24 years ago: went to the Foresters Arms for a pint of Scrumpy Jack
23 years ago: bumped into my French teacher buying pork in Sainsbury's
22 years ago: traipsed round Milton Keynes looking for a Laa Laa
21 years ago: looked round our new detached house (as yet unfinished)
20 years ago: waited in for my landlord to fix the toilet seat
19 years ago: had my eyes squirted by the optician at Vision Express
18 years ago: went on a first date in Maryland which peaked with Viennetta
17 years ago: cut short my bar crawl due to Good Friday early closing
16 years ago: was driven home at 2am after attending hip hop cabaret
15 years ago: stumped up £6 for my first visit to the Design Museum
14 years ago: attended the earthquake centenary commemoration
13 years ago: cursed the new Blogger with its intrusive navbar
12 years ago: ate KFC on BestMate's sofa while watching The Krays
11 years ago: viewed Portsmouth from the top of the Spinnaker Tower
10 years ago: enjoyed half a pint of custard in Mitcham's Toby Carvery
9 years ago: rushed home in the rain to book a holiday in Iceland
8 years ago: retuned the TV because of today's digital switchover
7 years ago: stayed at work until 7pm because the boss was away
6 years ago: went bluebelling and climbed Leith Hill Tower
5 years ago: toured Claremont Landscape Garden and Painshill Park
4 years ago: sat in the corner of a meeting room nodding occasionally
3 years ago: returned my Radio Times because 64 pages were missing
2 years ago: walked from Welwyn to see George Bernard Shaw's shed
1 year ago: crossed the Heath from Parliament Hill to the Pergola
0 years ago: stayed in
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