I recall the very first Bank Holiday Monday as we headed off to Broadstairs for the weekend and stayed at a nice B&B. Our friends knew a restaurant that we went to that had the biggest Mixed Grill I had ever seen. I remember I drove us down there. It was a great time. We used to play Badminton together and I shared a flat (well a house really) with MW and Sundays were crazy. Both are future wives and us would head to the Sports Centre and play perhaps an hour's Badminton and then he and I in particular would undo all the good by having several beers in the clubhouse!
That was in 1978 - now I feel very old indeed.as that was 48 years ago. We used my Sunbeam Rapier to get there (UK version of a Plymouth Barracuda). A brilliant car and before mobile phones and the like we had a few hairy hours of trying to get to and from pick up points when incoming trains were delayed requiring me to dash between three stations. It worked out OK after that though.
Halcyon days with my own car, living away from my parents and having enough money to pay my way too. I was 19 years old then, peak of my powers in many ways and newly qualified Engineer. A few years later, married and it would have been 45 years a few days ago had I not split up and walked away from it all.
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