Did you ever have anything going on in your young life that you simply couldn't wait to get home from school for?
Maybe a new toy, game or comic or maybe a telly programme?
The one I remember vividly was a project I had on the go in 1974 or 5, a home made Japanese scroll. It was a long thin piece of wallpaper on which I wrote in Japanese words. The subject matter was martial arts and I think they were moves of a kata or exercise which I'd made up, possible for the use of swords and spears.
I recall rushing home from school around 3.30 in the afternoon, dashing into my bedroom where I'd left it on the carpet the day before and carrying on writing where I'd left off.
I was so excited it's untrue. Nothing at school came close. I did that scroll with a passion that only the obsessions of early teenage can generate. I adored doing it and still have it today but sadly can no longer read it as my teenage brain drive has been wiped!
How about you? Did you dash home readers?
Yorkshire TV showed Thunderbirds in spring/summer 1976 on Thursday afternoons from 4.25 to 5.20. I remember leaving school at 3.50 and cycling about 3 miles home, getting home just in time. No video recorders in those days so if you missed it that was it, though I did tape the sound on a cassette recorder so i could listen to it again.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, Yorkie, that is one darn fine reason for getting home! You were Thunderbird Six on that bike! Do you still have your tapes?
DeleteNo, but I have happy memories of trying to get the budgie to keep quite while I taped the sound. :) Later on we got a TV that you could link via cables to the tape recorder so problem solved. Years later videos came along and the tapes were dumped.
DeleteSounds like me and Bill recording the SWORDcast! ha ha. U sippose it was home taping like that that has saved some lost audio off some wiped shows like Dr Who. Dont know if any Anderson shows were lost. Do you?
DeleteIn the 70's I got as a gift a little appliance by Hamilton Beach.You put a cheese sandwich in it and it toasted both sides.You could also use the side with a round hole to make a hamburger.It was the greatest feeling to have a hot grilled cheese while doing my homework.When I was a teen,I raced home to play video games.
ReplyDeleteNow that sounds tasty Brian. Cheese toasties! Mmmmm! Which cheese? I used to make Steak Canadiennes when I was a young teenager, super thin beef slices that were fried in a second and made into a sandwich. Yum! I usually did them on a Saturday linchtime for my mates. I've never seen them again since the Seventies!
DeleteSteak Canadienne sounds like what I call a Philly Cheesesteak(Philly meaning Philadelphia)The steak is sliced wafer thin and fried with onions and cheese is melted over the top,and served on an Italian roll,similar to a French baguette.The cheese is usually Italian Provolone or "American" cheese, which is a commercially produced cheese that taste like cheddar, only kind of bland by comparison.Velveeta was my grilled cheese filling, another inexpensive,commercial,yellow cheese loaf made to melt easily.
ReplyDeletePhilly cheesesteak sounds brill Brian. My mates would've died for one! As for Velveeta, that's such a great name! I can imagine a punk rock chick being called that or maybe a horror host! Ha ha.
DeleteI love Velveeta but it seems to be unpopular among the young set these days.It makes a great sandwich though.
DeleteCannot recall dashing home but for cinema instead, mid-school, for Johnny Weissmueller Tarzans. The childrens' matinees started at 1 p.m. at Kaleva cinema some 6 kms away, so we had to skip gym classes which was not a big loss. We made a helluva bike race for the show instead. Our teacher did not like it though. I think I saw each and every Tarzan that way, and many twice over.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Weissmuller, now he was the real deal Arto. I can here him doing that piercing jungle yell even now. When I lived in Recklinghausen there was talk of a local bodybuilder being friends with Johnny W, although he must have been old by then. It's funny that weren't more Tarzan toys when we were kids. I can't think of any I had. You?
DeleteYou are quite right there Woodsy when you come to think of it. How odd indeed. However, I was quite satisfied with a shelf worth of Tarzan novels and stacks of Tarzan & Korak comics. Being an avid member of the Tarzan Fan Club ran by the comics publisher, I got my own Tarzan cloth badge and a secret pass with a code to crack Tarzan's jungle language. Still have both safely stored away. Kreegah bundolo!
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DeleteNot sure how you spell his yell!