Idi Amin seized Uganda US astronauts drive on the moon in a 'Moon rover' London bridge moves to Arizona Decimal currency introduced in the UK
Not a good year for me – a longterm relationship had ended
That was also the time when working life was disconcertingly divided into live-in work in rather luxurious accommodation for nine months of the year, and hand-to-mouth life in rented accommodation for three months of the year.
There were a great many children – Girl Guides in a London church hall, and long-legged ballet dancers playing cricket. (Have you ever watched a 13 year old girl or boy doing ballet steps in the outfield during the exchange of batsman? It’s worth seeing.) The Summer must have been a fairly good one – don’t remember any extremes, but quite a few sunlit scenes Swimming, fruitpicking – eat as much as you like, which probably lasted all of ten minutes, Hever Castle surrounded by bright water, walking on Welsh hillsides Indoor memories – might have been any time of the year Oxfordshire pubs Learning to cook with Cooking In The Corner (Whitehorm) and trying to read The Philosopher in the Kitchen – I’ve still got it and might finish it some time Marylebone library A day at Aldershot, being entertained by several young men wearing an alrming amount of – is it called scrambled egg? And wasn’t 1971 the year when a fishing vessel was renamed Greenpeace, and so began almost 40 years of green politics and, unlike events in London in the 1950s, succeeded in making civil disobedience a respectable activity? 1971 records remembered (rather influenced by spending much time with children) Grandad, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, -Ernie (the fastest milkfloat in the west), Knock Three Times
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Date: 2008-02-06 08:57 pm (UTC)Idi Amin seized Uganda
US astronauts drive on the moon in a 'Moon rover'
London bridge moves to Arizona
Decimal currency introduced in the UK
Not a good year for me – a longterm relationship had ended
That was also the time when working life was disconcertingly divided into live-in work in rather luxurious accommodation for nine months of the year, and hand-to-mouth life in rented accommodation for three months of the year.
There were a great many children – Girl Guides in a London church hall, and long-legged ballet dancers playing cricket. (Have you ever watched a 13 year old girl or boy doing ballet steps in the outfield during the exchange of batsman? It’s worth seeing.)
The Summer must have been a fairly good one – don’t remember any extremes, but quite a few sunlit scenes
Swimming, fruitpicking – eat as much as you like, which probably lasted all of ten minutes, Hever Castle surrounded by bright water, walking on Welsh hillsides
Indoor memories – might have been any time of the year
Oxfordshire pubs
Learning to cook with Cooking In The Corner (Whitehorm) and trying to read The Philosopher in the Kitchen – I’ve still got it and might finish it some time
Marylebone library
A day at Aldershot, being entertained by several young men wearing an alrming amount of – is it called scrambled egg?
And wasn’t 1971 the year when a fishing vessel was renamed Greenpeace, and so began almost 40 years of green politics and, unlike events in London in the 1950s, succeeded in making civil disobedience a respectable activity?
1971 records remembered
(rather influenced by spending much time with children)
Grandad, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, -Ernie (the fastest milkfloat in the west), Knock Three Times