Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Memories, Music and Movies – 1987 – Texas Wedding – British Hurricane – Labi Siffre and Dirty Dancing by Sally Cronin
I cannot remember a time when music and movies where not a part of my life.
1987 – Texas Wedding – British Hurricane – Labi Siffre and Dirty Dancing
In December 1986 we packed up all our worldly goods that had accumulated whilst we had been living in Houston for two years. Bear in mind we had arrived with two suitcases of clothes each! We now had an apartment of furniture, a couple of wardrobes of clothes, posters of most of the places we had visited and a car that I refused to be parted from.
The company agreed to pay our removals back to England and two men duly arrived from the shipping company and one packed as one sat behind a makeshift desk and wrote every item down. In a nutshell; our furniture and belongings were packed carefully around my Ford Topaz car which had been drained of all combustibles.
In one last massive party our friends congregated in one of the big downtown hotels for a New Year’s Eve party and rather the worse for wear we boarded our flight for London on January 1st.
