Tuesday 13 July 1976 – library morn. TV Man About The House, Heart Attack documentary[?]
Wednesday 14 July 1976 – went to Auntie Winifred [May]. Went to sherry party, v. useful
I cannot imagine why I would have been invited to a sherry party, nor why it would have been useful. Perhaps I was still holding out hope for funding/printing options for my soon-to-be-defunct magazine project, Shalom. If any wise readers out there can enlighten me about the meaning of such a diary note by a 13-year-old, I’ll be grateful.
Thursday 15 July 1976 – Had Anil [Biltoo] & Andy [Levinson] (afternoon). TV Olympics, ancient [Chronicle – The First Olympics]
Friday 16 July 1976 – Andy morn. Cricket & snooker after. TV Invisible Man.
Saturday 17 July 1976 – Chased around for Shalom. TV Paramount Presents, Opening Olympics.
Cricket in that instance would have been a trip to Tooting Bec Common to play cricket. Snooker I think would have been at Stuart Harris’s house, as I am pretty sure that the Levinson family had table tennis and the Naff Harris family had snooker. So I suspect that Stuart would have been part of the Tooting Bec cricket “test” too on that Friday.
Sunday 18 July 1976 – classes good. Lazy afternoon. TV Diana Dors film [actually Pillow Talk with Doris Day not Diana Dors – schoolboy error! Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!] , MASH.
Private Eye could have had a lookalike field day – see headline photo.
Monday 19 July 1976 – Olympics & tape. TV Star Trek, Get Some In.
Tuesday 20 July 1976 – Olympics, tape etc. TV The Good Life, great.
Wednesday 21 July 1976 – uneventful day. La Manga a cert. All okey dokey.
Thursday 22 July 1976 – uneventful day. Olympics & Test. TV Bionic Woman, Bob Hope.
La Manga was our holiday destination a bit later that summer. More on that on Ogblog anon.
“Test” will have been Day One of the 4th (Headingly) test. Oh goodness, the West Indies were good that summer. Roy Fredericks and Gordon Greenwich…