THEY say if you can remember the 1960s then you weren't really there.

Well, the 80s were my 60s and they are a bit of a blur to me. Thankfully friends who were there, and do remember, like to fill in the blanks. And the "Do you remember that £50 I lent you in 1988?" line won't work on me… again.

That's why I am grateful that I do a daily blog now. It has become my diary and I am quite disciplined at keeping it up to date. Not that I am the wild man that I was in the 80s. No, it's more that I am concerned the onset of the years will deprive me of today's shenanigans.

A blog is a good way of keeping on top of things. I recommend anyone over 40 and with access to a computer do the same. It can be as public or private as you choose, it's fun to do and it's free. Here are a couple of my postings from the past week.

Friday: Goodbye T' Jane (Slade hit)

Going for a Chinese tonight. It's Jane's leaving do. She has been reading the news for us for a long while now, so we're sending her off with plenty of love and monosodium glutamate…

Monday: Clobbered by Marc Astley, editor of the Express & Echo

I should have seen it coming. I had been trying to auction the 10 Marc Astley masks for charity.

After I launched it on the air, I started receiving emails of bids. One stood out. Malcolm…

My blog goes into detail, including a transcript of the emails between us, of how I got hoodwinked. I was led to believe that an illiterate being called "Malcolm Alford from Exminster", with a malfunctioning keyboard font, was a desperate bidder for the masks. They were to be used, he said, "to scare the birds from his allotment".

Expecting Malcolm to turn up at the radio station on Monday to collect his masks, I was dazed and confused to be joined instead by a grinning Marc Astley! Jenn Riach, the Meca Car Services owner, accompanied him as his "wife". She had been bidding too.

Well done. We managed to raise some money for ELF, the Exeter Leukaemia Fund, and had some laughs. Now one of us isn't so smug any more and one of us managed to save face. Well, 10 faces.

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