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July21

The Eagle Has Landed

By: Tim Neale

moon manTwo things dominated my early childhood. One was jam sandwiches, the other space.

The Apollo moon landings fired my imagination. I was a space junkie by seven. Christmas excitement paled besides the first moon landing.

I was asleep when it happened, too young to stay up to watch. My mum woke me in the morning, “The Eagle has landed” she said. I rushed down to watch talking heads on TV.

School was strange that day. In the excitement, I had forgotten to put any underpants on.

It’s now 40 years since Apollo 11. We never travelled further. Of all the predictions made in 1969, that’s probably the only one that was not suggested.

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February28

The Stranglers: Hanging Around

By: Tim Neale

Punk started for me in 78.

Up to this point I had avoided punk on the principle that if my sister liked it then I didn’t. My sister had been hard core from early on.

My sister was then a hair dresser working in London. She was well into all the hair-styles that punks were experimenting with. Once on her way to a gig in London, a bus driver wouldn’t let her on the bus because she had green hair.

Thirty years on and punk style is almost main stream. But, back in 70s, it was an anti-establishment social movement. The music was only a small part of it. A joke at the expense of the BBC and the music industry.

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January31

7 x 7

By: Tim Neale

I’ve been tagged by Jonathan Calder at Liberal England to do this so

7 THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE
1. Make sense of my life
2. Visit Antarctica
3. See a Super Bowl
4. Survive an Oktoberfest
5. Learn a foreign language
6. Marry Avril
7. Dance with the Devil in the Pale Moon Light (again)

7 THINGS I CANNOT DO
1. Say “Hard luck Arsenal, you should have won”
2. Give a shit about Big Brother
3. Watch Horror DVD’s without taking several breaks
4. Go home when the pubs are still open
5. Believe a government minister
6. Stand cold feet
7. Say “No, no it’s my round, put your money away.”

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January22

Here There Be Monsters

By: Tim Neale

When I was a child of four or five, I woke one evening and screamed the house down. My mum came into my bedroom to see what all the fuss was about. I had had a nightmare and was convinced there were monsters in the street out side my window. My mother opened the curtains and challenged me to show here where the monsters were.

At first I thought they might be hiding behind the lampposts. An idea which my mother found very amusing. Eventually I had to admit that I could not see any. Maybe it was the feeling of safety that having my mother around induced. Or maybe it was the self evident lack of monsters that did it. Either way I soon forgot about the monsters and went back to sleep.

As I grew up I learnt that along with Father Christmas and the tooth fairy, monsters did not exist. I learnt that fear of them was for babies, and not something that big boys indulged in.

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