April 7th

1981

French oral was okay – my mind went a bit blank and so I answered a lot of the questions with, “très intéressant” (very interesting) which seemed to amuse the French examiner! We had a meeting about a prefect trip to London. I had a phone call from the police, who said that I didn’t get the job!

1982

Helen was back at work, so I was back upstairs typing summonses. I didn’t go to training at lunchtime, went into town and bought Abba: The Lyrical Collection at last! Jacky (an ex-employee) came in and Mr Muncaster asked her to leave!

1983

Not much happened at work today. Steve rang and wanted to see me, but I had already said I would go see Lisa. We went down chip shop and ate chips at the beach.

1984

Competition day today, I did basic and fancy strut and my solo, didn’t win anything. Went up to Top Rank with Sue, met a guy named Dave.

1985

Didn’t do much today, spent most of it in my bedroom playing records. Phil came round, but had to go to work. Went to bed early, got to get up early tomorrow!