Free Where Did It All Go Right? by Andrew Collins Page A

February
    Today I bought myself a
Buzz
comic. It’s a new comic and it is very good. I got it instead of
Cor!!
    Monday, 12 February
    Today my tooth started wobbling. It will come out tomorrow because I’m taking some toffees to school for lunch.
    Tuesday, 13 February
    My tooth didn’t come out but it is much looser now.
    Saturday, 17 February
    Today I had a horrible cold but that wasn’t the only horrible thing, I had a horrible Lemsip.
    Saturday, 24 February
    Today I went to Kelvin Lay’s 5 party. I had a smashing tea, it was the best tea I’ve ever had.
    Thursday, 1 March
    Today my dad bought a new car, it was a white Viva. Our old one was a browny yellowy colour and it was a Viva as well. I haven’t rode in it yet but Simon has.
    Thursday, 8 March
    Today I went to Jeremy’s party and we had a super tea. My tooth fell out. It didn’t really fall out, somebody knocked it out at school. And Pappy gave me a magazine and it had a poster of The Sweet inside. 6
    Friday, 9 March
    Today Andrew Sharp 7 brought some strawberry bon-bons to school and he let me have four or five of them and they were very nice. And this afternoon David Edwards let me have a gobstopper and that was the first one I ever had.
    Saturday, 10 March
    Today Dad and me went to town and I spent my birthday money on a Slade poster and it’s smashing.
    Sunday, 18 March
    Today Dad let me stop up to play my new game I had for my birthday. It is called Mastermind it is really for grown-ups but we know how to play.
    Thursday, 12 April
    Today when I was playing on our tractor 8 I fell off and I scraped on the ground. My leg is burnt and it is all blacky brown.
    Thursday, 26 April
    Today I swapped one of my Top Teams, Kenny Dagleish, for Pat Jennings and Rodney Marsh and Milner gave me Emlyn Hughes free and Richard Griffin 9 gave me David Hay and Paul Madley free.
    Tuesday, 1 May
    Today when I was walking home from school Jeremy Moss came rushing up and he said he had just seen David Boulter run over by a motorcycle and his leg is broken and it is quite flat.
    Friday, 4 May
    Today I saw
The Grumbleweeds
on telly and it is great. There are jokes, impressions and two special guests every week and there is Maurice, Albert, Robin, Graham and Carl. Carl is my favourite.
    Monday, 7 May
    Today I stopped for school dinners for the very first time but I took sandwiches and you sit on a special table if you have sandwiches. If there’s no room you sit on another table.
    Friday, 18 May
    Today a new series of
It’s a Knockout
. It was Woodstock v Bicester, I wanted Bicester to win. They did. The score was B 14 and W 8. They had some crazy games.
    Sunday, 27 May
    Today it was a very sunny day and me and Simon went over Maria and Justine’s 10 and we all played in the paddling pool and Simon fell off the slide and his head was bleeding.
    Monday, 4 June
Holiday
    In the afternoon we went to the Model Village at Yarmouth then we went to the Aquarium and in the evening we went to the Joyland fair with Maria. I went on the snail ride, a round-about, some bumper cars, penny slot machines and we all went on a novelty Noah’s Ark, there was a little monkey, a hall of mirrors, little model scenes and the boat swayed about.
    Thursday, 7 June
    Today in the evening me, Dad and Simon were going to the waxworks but it was closed so we went to the Joyland fair and when we came back to the car Dad bought us an ice cream and they were a foot high counting the cornet and it had a flake in it.
    Monday, July 9
    Dad bought us a cricket bat. We got our school reports, I got grade A in English, grade B in reading and grade A in maths and they are about the best grades you can get.
    Thursday, 12 July
    I went to Jonathan Green’s party and Richard Woodhall went mad on the swing and it fell on top of him and he cut his head open and Mrs Green had to ring up his mum and she took him to hospital. 11
    Thursday, 2 August
    This week at the park the fair is on. I had a candy floss again. I won a biro