Tuesday 20th November 1984

Rachel deserves her name on here because of an act of extreme kindness. She has a fourth anniversary present - some chocolate - and gave some to Newton, Huw, Barnaby, Alison, Bev and me. When Rachel gave me my "bit" Bev said to her "Don't rub it in, Rach!" That sent me wondering what the anniversary was. It happened to be because Rachel had been going out with Kinny for four weeks.

Howard is waging war on the Bartlett uniform system by wearing brown shoes. Well done Howard for putting one across Bartlett and his assorted fools. *

Last night John Peel played "Let's be adult" by the Ambitious Lovers again so I've recorded it on tape. He also had a live recording of Big Flame which was appalling. But they did have a song called "Deborah". 

I'm not telling what happened in the mitching incident. **

No sign of "Never turn away" in the charts, thank God. ***

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Footnotes

* Bartlett was Mr Bartlett, our headmaster. Bit of a wimp, to be honest. He had a rule that only black shoes were allowed. FFS.

** I wish I had because I clearly don't remember it very well now, in that I forgot it even happened. 

*** Fourth single from "Junk culture" by OMD, poor song and very poor choice of single. 

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