How to qualify as a chartered accountant keeps changing. When I did it the emphasis was on exams – a system that did not reflect what you had to do at work. The format was tweaked on many occasions after I passed. You were also required to complete a training file, showing that you hadContinue reading “Suddenly the Rain Came Down”
Tag Archives: 80s
There’s Anger In My Heart
In Royston a lot of the same people were involved in the church (St Johns for the record) and the drama group. One family was the Lynch’s. Gill and Bernard plus their three daughters – Felicity, Stephanie and Rachel (plenty of people wondered why Rachel was not named Melanie to fit the pattern). Undoubtedly theContinue reading “There’s Anger In My Heart”
Time to close my mind and drift off
I swear John Bonney did much more in life than give me books. Graham and John Bonney stayed in Brightlingsea in the summer of 1982 for a week. Everyone else in the family was away and I was allowed to look after the house for a fortnight. With two dogs, two cats and a tankContinue reading “Time to close my mind and drift off”
Find a place to go
The Fixx were one of those British groups that never quite fit. They were New Wave (like the Boomtown Rats) but were really only making it when the New Romantics were dominating music. In the end they never made it in the UK but were far more successful in the USA. One of the bestContinue reading “Find a place to go”
Revolution a solution
Rap or Hip-Hop. Not my favourite form of music. Yet when I was reading the music magazines in the early 90s (see post https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/05/26/all-of-these-and-seven-more-wonders-i-will-find/) there were thoughtful reviews and features on the groups. NWA were the bad boys out of the West Coast but the Kings of East Coast) and this was years before theContinue reading “Revolution a solution”
Celebrate the great escape
I do think year 10 (or fourth form as it was in the 1980s) is the biggest shock in the education system. Things get more structured at different stages but now it is exam study. Parents and teachers tell you how important these exams are. In the 1980s they were both more important, as youContinue reading “Celebrate the great escape”
I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen
I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen How many people can leave a band before it stops being the band? It depends on who the people are who leave I suppose. The Who lost Keith Moon in the 70s and no one batted an eyelid, despite the fact that he may have been the bestContinue reading “I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen”
I’m going down the place tonight
At Grant Thornton (GT) we always needed clients – it was meant to be the job of the partners to go out and get them but they always seemed to be in the office – in the summer watching cricket in the boardroom and in the winter listening to it on the radio. We tookContinue reading “I’m going down the place tonight”
When you looked at me I should’ve run
They were the first all-female band to write and play on their album to top the USA album chart, yet they never really broke the UK. They were an American New Wave band and New Wave in the USA did not seem to mean the same as in the UK where it was very muchContinue reading “When you looked at me I should’ve run”
Just like somebody slammed the door
I know that Heavy Metal is not to everyone’s taste, but it is a big branch of rock music. Actually, the music is complicated, rather than the wall of noise that people accuse of it being. I do not mean the vast variety of sub genres (thrash, death, speed, hair, soft, NWOBHM, etc) but theContinue reading “Just like somebody slammed the door”
Five Miles Out 