Great recollections of times gone by Steve. Certainly the last time I listened to the BBC World Service was late 80’s. Although I never had the homing instinct in me I found it very satisfying to listen to the good old BBC when I was parked up, had my evening meal and perhaps preparing to get my head down. I was in Baghdad when I heard about the ‘hurricane’ that hit southern England on 15/16 October 87 on my little short wave radio which left me wondering what damage had been done to our house. However, I was staying in the Meridian Hotel and not the lorry at that time.
Like the story of the lorry fire. Must have been parked adjacent to the ‘Fire Station’ for them to have got there so quickly and as for the girls knocking on your door at one in the morning for a cigarette. I could never understand why they didn’t make sure they had enough left in the packet the evening before!!!
