For this weeks FLASHBACK FRIDAY I am going back to 1988, when I was 14.
Yet again another bad hair style – this time a perm on top I think! Not a good look!
This is a photo of me and my old best friend Donna, when we met up again two years after my family and I moved from Newbury, Berkshire to North Devon. For anyone who saw my flashback Friday photo 2 weeks ago of an old primary school photo, some of you thought I was Donna, when I asked you to guess which child was me!
When I first moved to Devon, Donna and I wrote to each other all the time and we met up a few times over the years. Nowadays we are friends on facebook and the last time I saw her was November 2008. As it is even though we don’t see or contact each other that much, she is the friend I have been friends with the longest, as I have known her since 1984, when we discovered we had a mutual love of all things Wham! related!
I often wonder if we would have stayed friends had I stayed in Newbury, as not long after I moved away she got expelled from the school we went to together and had to go to one in another town. She also fell pregnant at 16 and had a gorgeous son who she raised without his father being present as he didn’t want to know! I admire her for that because I don’t know how I would have coped in the same situation.
Thank you xx
hmmm, are you sure you weren’t into Leo Sayer!! ha ha, great pic & story behind it Jenny
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See, now that photo would have been even better if you had your sleeves rolled up a la Wham/Miami Vice stylee 🙂
Lovely story and super pic. Plus you’re the same age as me! x
Aw, another lovely memory accompanied by a gorgeous hair-do! 😉 Thanks for a great #FlashbackFriday! 😉
Karin
lol…You have just reminded me of a ‘perm’ photo I must dig out for next week! What were we thinking? Great photo! And lovely story behind it x
Lovin’ the hair… teehee x
I always wanted a perm – wasn’t allowed. Now I am thankful (no offence) you would have clearly been up there in the style stakes circa 1988.
Great pic. It’s always good to get the oldies with your pals out. x
As a child I ALWAYS wanted a perm but mother dearest wouldn’t let me.Now I am ever so grateful, loving the picture x
Shuddering at the memory of all my eighties perms xx
OMG hilarious! My mum was too cheap to let me do a perm …at the time I was well miffed…now I am relieved at her tight fistedness!
OMG that picture is hilarious 😀 Somehow reminds me of my mum back in the 80s LOL
I had a perm too and loved Wham too, and would have been 15
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love the style! very Wham!