According to our calendar, August is Youth Month here in the library. But wait, I hear you say, seems like every month is youth month! And we agree, because we are (mostly) all old and curmudgeonly. So here in the Popular Team, we are going to let everyone else talk about today’s ‘yoof’, and instead we are going to focus on what life was like when WE were young. In fact, we are so excited by the prospect that we’ve already spent a good hour or more reminiscing about our favourite books, music and movies from our (distant) early days.
We’re going to drive everyone crazy by loudly talking about the first album we bought, the best and worst fashion we remember, the movies of our youth, and the books we loved to read (the acceptable ones, and the ones we had to read under the bedclothes at night). We’re even going to haul all our old tat out from cupboards and under beds and place it on display here at the Central Library. Come in and check it out, and have a go at matching memories to librarians, or see if you recognise anything from your own past …
I’ll start the ball rolling, by ‘fessing up to Abba, Bay City Rollers and the Stranglers, knickerbockers with striped socks, Blue Lagoon, Bear Island and Ice Station Zebra, Sapphire and Steel, Blake’s 7, Peyton Place, and the Magic Faraway Tree. So now you all know how old I am: anyone else out there willing to embarrass themselves more than me?
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