Fat Boy of Coombe Dingle


Kids in the 70’s would always be playing board games.  They played an important part in our learning curve and preparation for adulthood.  With technology increasing all the time, future generations were going to be brought up playing mindless computer games.  I’ve nicknamed our generation the ‘Buckaroo Boys’, after the game ‘Buckaroo’, where you had to show a bit of skill, a bit of nous, a bit of  guile, a bit of common sense.  Who can remember the 12 items which players must place on the mule's back?

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The story starts in May 1964 and charts the life of  Alister Baldwin through the 60's, 70's and 80's.

 By the end of 1964 I weighed 20lb 11oz, no wonder I was known as the “Fat boy of Coombe Dingle”. 

 

 I lied earlier when I said that 1977 was dominated by one thing, the Silver Jubilee. The biggest thing to happen that year, or any year come to that, was......... STAR WARS  

Even we didn’t realise it at the time, but we had a new set of Superheroes, Luke Skywalker, C3PO, R2-D2, Obi-Wan- Kenobi, Chewbacca, Hans Solo, Princess Leia  and the biggest Super villain of them all Darth Vader.  Christmas that year it was a must to have a Light Saber or a Darth Vader mask, a model C-3PO or R2-D2, a Luke Skywalker doll.  In a nutshell Star Wars was an Inter-galactic fight between good and evil.  The Jedi Knights against the ‘Dark Side’ led by Darth Vader.  The Jedi’s motto was “May the Force be with you”, which I think I’ll adopt for my birthday “May the 4th be with you”. 

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