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As I've mentioned before I have nothing from my childhood in respect of Star Wars save some happy memories, a 4-LOM chest harness, a Luke X-Wing head (currently MIA) and a battered ESB trading card. I've checked hundreds of photos of my childhood and not one figure appears.
However, going through some loft bits yesterday I came across my diaries that I kept as a kid. I kept a diary from around 1985 to 1990. They're never going to match Samuel Pepys' efforts but they give me an incredible insight into my childhood. They show me what was really important to me on a day by day basis and put events I remember into a timeframe that otherwise I couldn't have guessed to within 2-3 years without them.
I only found three, almost consecutive, entries relating to SW but then they date from October 1985. Personally I'm surprised I was still playing with SW then as Jedi was a distant memory. These are actually from a school exercise book as each day the first thing we had to do was write a diary entry and draw a picture relating to it, hence the red pen, and plenty of it! To put the three in context I was 9 years old and one of my best friends was about to move back to New Orleans where he and his family came from (they had been living on Anglesey due to his father's job at Anglesey Aluminium). His cruel parents had told him to sell his SW off. Much to my delight
Clearly is was such a great thing I made two entries for that day covering the day before and my plans for later that day! Clearly those furry little buggers caught me out with the names as you'll notice the deliberate mistake on the third entry!
However, going through some loft bits yesterday I came across my diaries that I kept as a kid. I kept a diary from around 1985 to 1990. They're never going to match Samuel Pepys' efforts but they give me an incredible insight into my childhood. They show me what was really important to me on a day by day basis and put events I remember into a timeframe that otherwise I couldn't have guessed to within 2-3 years without them.
I only found three, almost consecutive, entries relating to SW but then they date from October 1985. Personally I'm surprised I was still playing with SW then as Jedi was a distant memory. These are actually from a school exercise book as each day the first thing we had to do was write a diary entry and draw a picture relating to it, hence the red pen, and plenty of it! To put the three in context I was 9 years old and one of my best friends was about to move back to New Orleans where he and his family came from (they had been living on Anglesey due to his father's job at Anglesey Aluminium). His cruel parents had told him to sell his SW off. Much to my delight
Clearly is was such a great thing I made two entries for that day covering the day before and my plans for later that day! Clearly those furry little buggers caught me out with the names as you'll notice the deliberate mistake on the third entry!
