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Comment on Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 341 by Thing

Thing — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:04:40 +0000

‘Troika’ is of course also used in the arrangement of Greg Lake’s I Believe In Father Christmas, from 1975, and Woody Allen’s film Love And Death, also from 1975, uses it frequently as well, including the end credits, which it plays over, if I remember rightly.

You were leading us on to believe you were the culprit at school, weren’t you?

Comment on Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 341 by Chris Orton

Chris Orton — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:36:35 +0000

“with Mr Fyfe from the German department peering over her shoulder”.

Naturally, I mis-read this sentence.

I’m certain that we did the Barnados thing at some point too. We were always being given tickets to try to flog off to unsuspecting parents and neighbours. And sponsorship forms for various events. I remember that we had some kind of sponsorship scheme for an appeal that our school was doing for victims of leprosy in Conakry, Guinea. You can’t think of things like this even being done in the old-fashioned way now. It’ll all be “tweet your support, then visit the website to make a donation via PayPal” these days. I mean, how is that better than tearing out a ticket from a crumpled book and collecting the donations yourself in a Barclays Bank plastic money bag? Just not the same…

Comment on Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 17 by Elina

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Comment on Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 338 by bobfischer

bobfischer — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:24:26 +0000

Terrifying, isn’t it?

I tend to think of anything from 1990 onwards as being ‘recent’, as I was pretty much an adult (well, 18 anyway) from then on, and I still don’t feel like I’ve been an adult for very long.

I post on a couple of old TV and sci-fi forums, and it’s been pointed out that today (6th Dec) is the 20th anniversary of the last ‘old’ episode of Doctor Who being broadcast. I remember watching it really clearly, and what I was doing before and after, and it all seems very fresh in the memory. Like something that happened ‘a couple of years ago’ rather than something buried deep in the mists of time.

And yet in the same amount of time again, we’ll be pushing sixty. Yikes!

Comment on Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 339 by bobfischer

bobfischer — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:18:44 +0000

Teachers’ individual smells is worth a blog all of its own. I still can’t drink a cup of black coffee without thinking of the youthful Mr Parker, who seemed to seemed to fuel himself with nothing else.

There were always a gigantic bundle of betting slips in his wallet, as well. I still have fond memories of the A-Level English lesson we spent watching the 3.15 from Chepstow on the big wooden TV on the trolley.

Brilliant teacher, though. Top bloke as well.

Comment on Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 339 by Ian Farrage

Ian Farrage — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:37:47 +0000

You got way too close……..
with Mr Porritt for example, you could smell the tabs and Polo mint mix from just being in the same room.

Comment on Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 338 by Chris Byers

Chris Byers — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:16:30 +0000

Great photo Bob, your right he hasn’t changed a bit. It was a shame he didn’t stay at Conyers longer.

I have to say that when I look at that photo of Chris Selden, or have watched the video’s of Mr Millward and Mr Hirst, I can’t explain how strange it feels to be looking at people I haven’t seen or spoken to in well over 20 yrs. It really does feel very odd.

Comment on Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 339 by fiercelyfuzzy

fiercelyfuzzy — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:07:49 +0000

I remember Mrs Man-Tank. Large lady who smelt strongly of Johnsons Baby Powder.

Comment on Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 338 by bobfischer

bobfischer — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:55:55 +0000

Of course it was Mr Rolfe’s old room! How weird… it just never struck me that it was the same place. Feels very different in my mind, somehow.

I think this time of year usually saw the PTA gearing up for their Christmas Dickensian evening, didn’t it? ‘Dickensian evening… bah bloody humbug, more like…’

Anyway, here’s me (looking mental) and Chris Selden at the Wiffle book launch in London, July 2008. About an hour after meeting for the first time in 21 years. As soon as he walked in, I realised who it was. It was utterly lovely to see him again, and we just seemed to pick up talking where we’d left off, at the front of Mrs Bush’s form room two decades earlier.

http://img687.imageshack.us/i/chrisselden.jpg/

Comment on Extracts from Bob’s 1984 Diary… Volume 338 by Chris Byers

Chris Byers — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:49:42 +0000

We moved form rooms in fifth year when it was decided that all the fifth year classes should be together in the maths department. I am surprised you can’t remember ours, as it was the same room we had been in with Mr Rolf for maths in first year.

You are so right though, we were exactly like Statler and Waldorf, even at 15 we were grumpy old men. I think we spent our entire time in registration moaning and complaining about anything, but the PTA were our usual targets. They always seemed to come up with such crackpot schemes to raise money, there probably having a Christmas BBQ at this very moment.

And that’s amazing if you managed to find Chris Seldon, I bet that certainly came as shock to him.

PS Thought I would add a little clip of a couple of dodgy characters. Remind you of anyone?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14njUwJUg1I