Something a bit different this Week, I found up some older Photos of me and Susan from 1977 and 79. These first 3 Photos were taken Outside and Inside of the Shop, where Susan used to work, it was Her Father's Shop, it sold Leather Good's, for example, Bags Purses etc, it was called Regent Leathers, the other Photos are on a Day trip to London! Some are a bit damaged, but still great Memories!
Susan worked there for a couple of Summer's, the first being 1976 and 77, in early 1977 was when I came along, although I did actually go to the Shop in September of 1976, I took a College Friend down to have a look at Susan, who was working, little did I know some 35 years later, we would still be Together!
That was a Great period of my Life, I was working in a Great Hotel, I had no Debts, no worries, I had a Car and I had a Great Girlfriend! How things were going to change for me in about 1 Year's time!
I used to spend a lot of time in the Shop, I sometimes used take Susan to work in the Car and Pick her up after Work, one Day I remember Driving her to work about 9 am, and I smashed into the Car in front of us, I still remember it was a Volvo!
That was a Great Car I had, it was a Morris 1800, We called it "Bessie", I remember I had stickers above the Window Wipers on front windscreen, it read "SPRINT 1800" What a Child I was!
The other 2 Photos were taken in London, we had a Day Out with Susan's sister and her Boyfriend, it was, I believe our first time out without nathan who was Born about 8 Months previously, we were having a Drink outside a Cafe!
It was a Coach trip, we went around "Madam Thussand's" Buckingham Palace etc, another place we went to, was "The Planetarium" I remember this well, as I fell asleep during the Show!
Another thing that always sticks in my Mind concerning this day was, as I said about us being away from Nathan for the first time, well it was also my Mother's First time at looking after Nathan, on her own!
And what a Mess, she made of that, when we got Nathan home, he was Crying a lot as I remember, so Susan went to change his Nappy, well I will always remember, the state of Nathan's Bottom, I don't think My Mother had changed his Nappy all the time we was in London, his rear was RED RAW, he had Bleeding Blisters on there, all this and I thought my Mother said she was Great with Kids!
This I'm afraid was what we were going to get from my Mother, over the Years!
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Music from 1977, there was a Great Album Release from "The Brothers Johnson" called "Right On Time" It was their Second Album to be Released on Qwest /A&M Records, it was Produced by Quincy Jones, it also contained the following 3 Singles! with US R&B and US Pop Chart Placings:
The Album Tracks were as follows
Runnin' For Your Lovin'
Free Yourself, Be Yourself
"Q"
Right On Time
Strawberry Letter 23
Brother Man
Never Leave You Lonely
Love Is
The Best tracks on the Album were "Strawberry Letter 23, "Right On Time" and "Love Is"
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By now we had about 2 Months to go before getting married, and we had a couple of Big changes going on! Firstly, I had to sell my Car, the main reason behind this was to get extra money for us when we got Married!
I remember selling the Car to my Sister's Boyfriend, for £100 and a bike, so not a bad loss on the Original price and I had some transport to get back and forth to work!
The second change we had, was we had moved in with my Nanny, who lived in the Town Centre of our Town, we had our own Bedroom and had most of our Meals out at the Hotel where I worked, so we were sorted at last!
One thing I do remember that happened at this time was, we had to convert a large Bathroom in my Nanny's House, into our Bedroom,what a nightmare that was, in the process we had to get the old Bath out of the First Floor Room Window, this took quite a while to do!
Work was going OK at this time and as I said we had about 2 months to go before we got Married!
By now around late 1977, I was back at College, doing the second two year part of my Catering Course, things were going well at my new Job, I still had my Car and me and Susan were still seeing each other!
We had, had a Great Summer, as I said Susan worked in her Father's Shop, during the Summer Season, I used to go in there all the time and sometimes help out! but that Work had now finished and the Winter months were now upon us, I remember we used to Baby Sit for several of Susan's Brother's and Sister's on a weekly basis, to think now all them Kids we babysat for are now, are in their middle to late 30's!
That Christmas was my First with Susan Really, although I knew her the Year before, this was our first together! Being single I can remember us buying each other loads of Presents, one item in particulary I remember buying Susan was a red and multi striped coloured Robe, I think it was for Bedtime!
But all the Excitement of Christmas was not going to prepare me for what Susan told me while we were sitting at the back of her Mother's Front room, I think it was Christmas Day when she told me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I'M PREGNANT"
What a SHOCK this was, I was just 19 and Susan was 18, this obviously this was going to change our lives forever! I cant honestly remember how this News affected that Christmas,
We were both in Shock!
How the HELL would we cope, we were Still Teenager's ourselves, I know nowadays it seems to be the Norm to have Kids Young, but back then it was unusual to have Kids at that Age!
