Comments on: Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 9 http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/extracts-from-bobs-1984-diary-volume-9/ Daleks, Death Stars and Dreamy Sci-Fi Nostalgia... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:41:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: bobfischer http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/extracts-from-bobs-1984-diary-volume-9/#comment-291 bobfischer Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:59:52 +0000 http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-291 Fiona, that's tragic. All of mine are in the loft, together with pretty much everything else I owend in the first 12 years of my life, and I keep putting off sorting them all out until a rainy day. I just hope it's not the rainy days that have done for them. I'd have got round to it sooner if it wasn't for the spiders up there. Brrrrr. Fiona, that’s tragic. All of mine are in the loft, together with pretty much everything else I owend in the first 12 years of my life, and I keep putting off sorting them all out until a rainy day. I just hope it’s not the rainy days that have done for them.

I’d have got round to it sooner if it wasn’t for the spiders up there. Brrrrr.

]]> By: Fiona Tims http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/extracts-from-bobs-1984-diary-volume-9/#comment-286 Fiona Tims Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:07:08 +0000 http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-286 My comics got destroyed a few years ago. They were in the shed and the roof got damaged and water leaked in. I'm still gutted. I had boxes full :( My comics got destroyed a few years ago. They were in the shed and the roof got damaged and water leaked in. I’m still gutted. I had boxes full :(

]]> By: bobfischer http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/extracts-from-bobs-1984-diary-volume-9/#comment-274 bobfischer Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:21:17 +0000 http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-274 She wasn't bad! I never thought anything of it, and I think I was about 17 before I saw fit to venture out to a proper hairdressers. I did used to wildly overestimate her prowess though, and would regularly sit down on the dining room chair with a ludicrous list of requests. 'Can you taper it up the back and sides please, and then feather it a little bit on top? And then maybe trim the sideburns a touch, and add a few subtle highlights at the front?' 'Yeah, just sit there and I'll get the pudding bowl from the kitchen...' She wasn’t bad! I never thought anything of it, and I think I was about 17 before I saw fit to venture out to a proper hairdressers. I did used to wildly overestimate her prowess though, and would regularly sit down on the dining room chair with a ludicrous list of requests.

‘Can you taper it up the back and sides please, and then feather it a little bit on top? And then maybe trim the sideburns a touch, and add a few subtle highlights at the front?’

‘Yeah, just sit there and I’ll get the pudding bowl from the kitchen…’

]]> By: procrastinatrix http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/extracts-from-bobs-1984-diary-volume-9/#comment-271 procrastinatrix Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:01:17 +0000 http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-271 The Mater regularly cut our hair when we were little. She wasn't much good at it though - one reason my hair was very short was mom's ultimately futile attempts to get both sides the same length. Hope your ma was a bit more successful. The Mater regularly cut our hair when we were little. She wasn’t much good at it though – one reason my hair was very short was mom’s ultimately futile attempts to get both sides the same length. Hope your ma was a bit more successful.

]]> By: bobfischer http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/extracts-from-bobs-1984-diary-volume-9/#comment-268 bobfischer Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:55:40 +0000 http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-268 I've had 25 years to think of that and you've still beaten me to it! And yes, we had chalk and blackboards! And board rubbers that were occasionally thrown at grotty ten-year-olds and would impact in a spectacular flurry of dust. 'The board is black, the chalk is white, together we learn to read and write...' Another of Mrs Mulhern's favourites. :-) I’ve had 25 years to think of that and you’ve still beaten me to it!

And yes, we had chalk and blackboards! And board rubbers that were occasionally thrown at grotty ten-year-olds and would impact in a spectacular flurry of dust.

‘The board is black, the chalk is white, together we learn to read and write…’

Another of Mrs Mulhern’s favourites. :-)

]]> By: Roy http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/extracts-from-bobs-1984-diary-volume-9/#comment-267 Roy Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:50:00 +0000 http://wifflelevertofull.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-267 'Mr Chalkley' is a brilliant name for a headmaster - or were chalk and blackboards a thing of the past by then? ‘Mr Chalkley’ is a brilliant name for a headmaster – or were chalk and blackboards a thing of the past by then?

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