h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Read your piece on the seventies, just after I'd finshed mine. Looks like we were having a great time in parrallel. Personally preferred Dexies to Blues and I learnt that I have no willpower where speed is concerned and best leave it alone. I set out quite consciously to have a GREAT time during that decade and achieved that goal. Sounds like you did too. Don't be a stranger, stranger.

I had such a good time that i didn't want to stop....so i didn't.Only in the last few years have i started "settling down" which is a damn sight harder then i thought it would ....it is sooooooo boring...lol.

No choice though really,not if i want to live to be a grand old age anyway,but its ok ,i "filled my boots",far too often in my late thirties i found myself in nightclubs in the early hours asking myself "what the hell am i doing here",so not being totally sure where my future path lay i decided to carry on until i was forty and then reinvent myself.

At the moment i find myself in transition as for the last few years i have been cleaning myself out....no drinking..no smoking (nothing) and definately no party food...no coffee...

It is quite wierd to be honest,but although i was always fortunate enough to be fit and healthy,i am definately feeling a lot healthier still....

The problem is finding replacements,particularly from a social point of view,for example i cannot bear being around drunk people...even if i love them dearly when sober.I look at them and think to myself...."oh my F---!!! was i like that"...lol.

Getting back to the point though....yeah man...what a decade that was..i truly had an absolute blast.As i was writing that piece i was remembering and realising what a wild time it really was,it made me think that i could easily write a book on it.The music was great wasn't it??...there was very little that i didn't like...from R&B to the likes of Dexies,pink floyd...i could name hundreds.

So where were you anyway?...it would be nice to chat and remember.

I grew up in Ipswich but used to travel down for gigs and footie. I left home in '76 and lived in a wild house in the country. In '77 I wnet to cllege in Weymouth and in '78 ended up in North London, Southgate. Been in North London ever since more or less. I calmed down a bit sooner than you but I had gotten to a point where I was carrying so much money and doing things that required I either got armed or got out. I got out. I spent a few years de-toxing, but I still retain the capacity to continue drinking for long periods of time, as long as I take it slowly, without particular ill effects. I am a close season smoker - a few here and there. I try to occassional cigarette with a twisted end, but sobriety is cool for me now too. I'm working in East London but given the content of these posts,better not spell out my job. Suffice it to say that having thought it all through I'm doing the most subversive thing I think it is worthwhile doing.

I spent my football supporting days on the south bank stand,i always enjoyed the trips to Ipswich and norwich.
Also,pretty wild times.

I know it's cool that going to football is a much safer experience nowadays, but sometimes I look at the middle-class w*****s who are only there because it's a trendy thing to do and I think - 'The straights are stealing our game, you lot would crap yourself at what used to be an average game back then.' I hear people complain about swearing for God's sake!! Is this wrong of me?