“Bort MOVING WAVES – FOCUS – ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT” / “Got opticians appointment” / “Today is the 1st (day) Anniversary of finding my history book”
Why did I write that stupid line about my history book? (Monty Python had WAY too much influence on my teenage brain I reckon!)
I suspect making an appointment with an optician scared [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘monty python’
11-13-08
January 23rd 1973
09-11-08
December 14th 1972
“Monty Pyfon” / “Didn’t score in games but set up two and got muddy”
Oh no! Got muddy? Quelle horreur!
I bet when she saw my gym clothes my Mum used an inappropriate swear word or two.
36-years later and “set up two” is now described as “a pair of assists”
06-13-08
An Aside (V) – Telly in 1972
“Three Channels and Nothing On”
Unlike today, when my wife and I have 200+ channels to choose from and almost unlimited programming possibilities (thanks to the advent of TiVo), in 1972 I had 3 channels to pick my viewing from; BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV.
We had just ONE television in the house. A small black & white set, my [...]
02-23-08
May 11th 1972
“recorded half of goodies programme”
My “tape recording” fever was not merely limited to popping the microphone in front of the record player’s speaker and ‘pirating’ an LP or two.
Every so often I would sit the mic in front of the TV and record the audio from programmes I liked – usually comedy shows – and [...]
02-15-08
March 11th 1972
“pictures - and now for something completely different”
Ah, the Regal Cinema in Eastleigh. (Later to become Martine’s nightclub, and currently an abandoned building)
Colloquially known as “the fleapit”, it was a “proper” cinema (none of this multiplex nonsense) which we would now all cry out to save and protect from demolition were it still around.
I can remember [...]
