I played outside for hours in the streets with friends, roamed around my local area unsupervised, walked to school on my own, and stayed at home by myself from the age of 9 during school holidays while my parents worked, making my own decisions, right or wrong. However, children like myself didn’t watch a lot of TV. Our TV in 1960 had 3 channels, and the last program finished at 10pm, when the National Anthem played. There were no mobile phones and microwave ovens in 1960, and not all homes even had washing machines or a landline phone (I was 18 before my parents got a landline phone and a washing machine). Can you tell us about some of the major differences you see between let’s say 19 that you haven’t already mentioned? What with online bullying of schoolchildren these days who are afraid to play out in the street, global warming, and terrible ‘music’ that just sounds like people shouting, I’m glad I was born in the late 1950’s, that’s all I can say. It has now given us people addicted to social media who are looking down at their phones all day. Technology has advanced so much since I was a child in the 1960’s. Let’s get a little serious, what do you think of this world we live in? Not Jazz!? What is wrong with you Stevie! Lol. Also like some classical, but not opera or jazz. Rock, reggae and blues, probably in that order. To become a doctor, but as I’m virtually number illiterate, that was never going to happen.Ī House Without Windows is Available Now on AmazonĪs you know, we be in here jamming it out on Throwback Thursday so I have to ask, what kind of music do you like?

Therefore, there must be hundreds that I can sing from start to finish, but probably only if they were a hit before 1990! I’m very musical, and find it easy to memorize the lyrics to songs. What songs have you completely memorized? I’m Stevie Turner, born and bred in London, but now live in the East Anglia region of England. Welcome to The PBS Blog! Let’s get started. Today I’d like to extend a warm welcome to Stevie Turner. Welcome to Introduce Yourself, a new and exciting blog segment of The PBS Blog dedicated to introducing to you new and established authors and their books.

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