Throwback Thursday: Chip Club Diary 1984

[purplecat]

For all of 1984 and about half of 1985 I kept a diary (now, of course, I have a Dreamwidth). My 1984 diary was a Christmas present, from whom I don't recall, and proclaims itself to be the CHIP CLUB DIARY 1984 - a chipmunk features heavily throughout, the eponymous Chip, I presume. I am struck by several things on perusal.

• Groovy, as I recall, was the hippest of hip words at my school in 1984. I'm amused that my approach to days were I couldn't think of anything to write was to write Groovy or some variant thereupon.
  
• I see I didn't not miss the fan opportunity to lecture about the object of my fannish interest - even in my private diary.
  
• I strongly suspect Battlestar Galactica was not, in fact, reaching Earth.
  
• At age 13, the prose I was producing could not be described as even aspiring to deathlessness.
  

Transcript for those who don't feel like reading my 13-year-old handwriting:
2 Monday: Today was Yta's party apart from Yta, a Helena and a Kate there were two Katherines and 3 Louise's. We played building bridges with pins and straws.

3 Tuesday: ? GROOVY!

4 Wednesday: Today in National dance we practised for a performance in the town hall for the mayor tea party.

5 Thursday: First of the new Dr Who season. The Silurian's are back and the sea devils. First appeared during the 3rd Doctor.

6 Friday: Today we went to the Dentist's I had NO FILLINGS - later on Mrs Day took us to see Krull I liked ? the magnificent short in stature, tall in power, narrow in purpose, wide in vision bests

7 Saturday: Je Groove, Tu Grooves, il Groove, elle Groove, Nous Groovons, Vous Groove, Ils Groovant, elles Groovant.

8 Sunday: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA REACHING EARTH YIPEE!!

Comments

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

Your 13-year-old handwriting is better than most people's adult handwriting...

The Galactica actually did reach Earth... four years before your diary entry. There was a show called Galactica 1980, two years after the original show, in which the Galactica reached Earth and found that present-day earth wasn't the mighty paradise that could battle the Cylons that they thought it would be. Maybe it took four years for that show to be shown in the UK? I'd be surprised it even went there, as it was terrible and was cancelled very quickly.

I love the French conjugations of the verb "groovy".

[purplecat]

I'm not sure Galactica 1980 ever got the UK. I've certainly never seen any of it though I think I read about it somewhere - and I think there might have been a movie version that I did see... anyway I definitely wasn't writing about Galactica 1980 here. I have a very vague memory there was some sort of bait-and-switch "they've nearly reached Earth, oh no they haven't!" thing, but I couldn't swear to it.

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

I think they did that bait-and-switch a couple of times during the original show. I don't remember - it's been a loooooong time. :)

[daniel-saunders.livejournal.com]

I had no idea "groovy" was considered a popular word in the eighties!

[purplecat]

It was very localised - possibly only my class. One of the more popular girls used it as a kind of catch phrase so, naturally, all the rest of us did as well. I seem to remember there was some kind of song to the tune of "There'll always be an England".