1981 FAMILY HOLIDAY

Readers of this blog will know, that when I once a fortnight write a Personal Life Blog Entry, I like to include some Sort of Music, well in my last entry I was going to include A piece about Smokey Robinson's Hit Single of about 30 Years ago "Being With You", thats when I remembered about our First Family Holiday back in 1981.

This Blog entry is actually going back to about 6 Months in time to the Last Entry!

It was around the period somewhere between 13 June to 25 June 1981, that we went to Butlin's in Clacton, I checked the Internet for confirmation about Smokey Robinson's Single,  because this was Number 1 in UK when we was on our Holiday!

It was me, Susan, Nathan and Natalie, my Parents and my 2 Younger Sister's and one of their Boyfriends. his name was Gary England (we still speak to him nowadays when we see him, but that is not vey often) If I remember my Parents paid for us, we just had to get Spending Monies!

It was going to be a Great Holiday, I remember them (my family) saying we will look after the kids each night, so you and Susan can go out together! this of course never Happened, the only time we went out on our own, was during the Day!

I used to have a Game of Snooker every Day with Gary, that was Great. I remember going on the Giant Scaletrix with Nathan, not forgetting going in the "Pig and Whistle" that was a pretty Good Holiday!

I remember one Day we all walked to Clacton Town Centre, I remember this because my Youngest  Sisters Boyfriend (Les Horn) never came on Holiday with us because he was Working, so we went to Buy Him an Vinyl Album, he liked Heavy Metal, so we got him, I think an "Iron Maiden" Album!

I said this was our First ever Holiday, as a Family and I believe it was my First Holiday since I went to Switzerland with the School, back in around 1972/73, and as it turned out this was also our Last Holiday together, until we went to Cornwall in 1995, some  14 Years Later! 

As I said previously between the Dates of 13/06/81 and 27/06/81 Smokey Robinson had the Number1 Single in th UK, "Being With You" this turned out to be his Last ever Number 1 as a Solo Artist in UK!

This also turned out to be SR biggest Solo Hit Ever, Worldwide!