Come Back Karen
I’m a bit upset today, my Sister Karen’s just gone back to Australia. She lives over there with her two children, Andrew and Lisa, and her hubby Andy, they run a company called Weldalloy.
I like it when Karen visits because we always end up reminiscing about the 1980s. Karen originally moved to New Zealand and I always remember the year, because she emigrated at about the same time Maori Venture won the Grand National in 1987. I must have been just about the only person in our circle of family and friends who didn’t back it!
On this visit we discussed the - what seem silly now - hairstyles people had in the 80s, all the girls wearing leggings, most men having a ‘centre parting’ and the various Discos we used to go to.
We also discussed about the limited number of clothes shops there used to be. If you were a man you’d go into the local Burtons to get a new shirt for Christmas Eve and then when you went out there’d be at least three other lads with the same top on in each pub! Makes you think about the amount of choice we have nowadays.
As always Karen departed with a “It’ll be a long time before I come back to England Adrian”.
Thankfully for me - she said EXACTLY the same thing last year
