Can remember where I was when 1st Gulf War started and Berlin Wall came down, can't remember anything about N.M. walking free, but I'd suggest the first two had much more of an impact on me at the time and have affected our lives much more than the latter.
John
I have no idea. I was in a new job in london and commuting back to the midlands every friday and living in a hotel during the week.
I was abroad for a week, staying in a pension in the old town overlooking Antalya harbour, trying to decide whether the man with me was worth giving up a great job for in the UK to have an adventure with ...
Studying for exams when qualifying as a vehicle electrician in the army. I remember us all watching this in the naafi and the pig ignorant squaddies not having a bloody clue what it meant.
Studying for exams when qualifying as a vehicle electrician in the army. I remember us all watching this in the naafi and the pig ignorant squaddies not having a bloody clue what it meant.
Hmm, well my son was 2 and a half. I was working full time. Living with 'his' parents, in their barely converted attic and sleeping on a sofa bed. Working at a place called Slingsby Aviation that make (made?) glass fibre light aircraft and other glass-fibre aeronautical things. Not a fun time - and I was made redundant a year later. Bastards.
Life, however was full of potential and expectation of better things to come for us all. Life has certainly changed many times since then.
I was drunk, either in Soho, NE London, or somewhere in between. I remember it well... I think
That would be the case for any time between 1987 & 1995-ish.
(the NE LOndon part may have varied)
lp
20 years ago I was a heavy drinking bar manager, hadn't even an interest in american football at the time, and the release of Nelson Mandela was only in my thoughts because I lived with (not in a gay way) a south african guy. I remember talking about it in the bar and getting little response or interest shown from my customers. I do remember feeling certain, wrongly I'm pleased to say, that a bloody conflict would ensue. I'm of a generation who was raised on the propoganda that told us anyone opposing our systems was a terrorist. Subsequent events have shown that Mandela's integrity was vastly superior to the system which tried to supress him. Such a shame none of our politicians have the same integrity, wouldn't the world be a better place.
Amazed so many of you remember where you lived and exactly what job you did blah blah. I can remember it being on the news, thats about it.
