I always preferred this side of the record, and it was played more than the 'A' side my copy was almost worn out, 1969 was the year I left School and started my first job I realised that I had made a mistake with the job I had chosen but I continued and completed my apprenticeship, the final blow came with the 3 day week in 1974, the management found out they could have power for 6 half days so they jumped at it, we lost our day off so were working 6 days instead of 5 all we lost of the working week was the late night on Friday 2 hours, we had to be there at our normal start time though we were not allowed power until 10.00 and finish at 16.00 but we had to stay until 17.30 as management said someone mite want a comb out, there would only be 1 or 2 of these in a week more often none, they had almost 30 staff waiting for 15p's worth of work, the manageress who had just brought a new Mercedes sports car was moaning 'we are not taking the money we can not afford to pay the staff, I thought 'sod that for a game of solderers' and never went back, they said I would not get another job, I got one at the Water Board, I didn't last long at it but was going to leave anyway, recently I heard the Governments Chief Idiot (The Prime Minister) saying he wanted to take us back to the 1970's, I thought which part the 3 day week or the winter of discontent though that was in the early 1980's .
I survived the eye test and have now been fully discharged from St Helliers Hospital, no more eye drops until my yearly eye test in April/May.
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