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My Dad was the manager of a carpet mill.

I suppose it was a fairly good job.

We were not rich but always had a car and annual two week summer holidays

which, in retrospect, was not the norm for most families where I grew up.

He often got free stuff from customers.

I'm not talking Keir Starmer level.

Mostly calanders, wallets, dairies and notebooks etc.

...and. once. a really cool bakelite cigarette despenser which I wish I'd kept.

 That's the background waffle.

So there were always drawers full of this shit.

I was so excited when Hawkwind's Astounding was released in 1976

that I wrote it down in one of these unused notebooks.

I recorded my musical adventure for almost two years until the book was full.

There are refs to individuals etc. which have been redacted.

Redacted being the in-trend euphemism for censored.

OK it's nerdy but I'm glad I did it and really pleased I still have it.

Here's the first page:

Buying Relics from Rumbelows and Wish You Were Here at Woolworths!

Both long gone from the High Street.

BTW...Belding Corticelli is written in pencil at the bottom left.

Belding Corticelli was a silk company that was formed

when Corticelli acquired Belding-Heminway,

making Corticelli the largest silk company in the United States

...and they were trying to bribe my Dad.

regards

Titus