The television had been reluctantly
placed back in my bedroom,
although hardly watched, only for three or four
programmes that I truly wanted
to see,
Doctor Who, Match of the Day, Top of the Pops
or the late night horror film which
took me through teenage years and the sound of the
Vampire scream as he burned to ash, smoke rising,
enough to stoke the fires of the imagination,
so no great loss in the scheme of things,
but I was desperate to watch the event