{"id":300,"date":"2008-06-01T20:36:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T19:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=300"},"modified":"2008-06-01T20:51:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T19:51:23","slug":"the-diary-of-horace-wimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"The Diary of Horace Wimp"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was listening to the best of ELO<\/a> CD today and one song brought back some memories. The Diary of Horace Wimp<\/a> was a single that my Uncle Alan played me when I went to visit him once. I was only 9 or 10 when I went to see him for the day. Mum put me on the train and he met me at his station. It would probably be thought of as wrong to put a 10 year old on a train on his own for 45 minutes these day, but it was great for me and I enjoyed the experience!<\/p>\n

Anyway, Alan had a huge record collection (not to mention a huge library of books) and I think he’d just bought the single, so he played it for me. It seems odd now that he had this, as I think most of his record collection was classical with a few comedy records (which I still have). I thought it was quite good (10 year old’s taste!) and we played it a couple of times and then went off and made lunch together and did other exciting things. It was always a treat to go and see him and I think I must have gone to see him on my own a couple of times.<\/p>\n

The big shame was that about 4 or 5 days after having a family meal at our house for his 40th birthday, he committed suicide. That was quite a big shock to me (as a kid of 10) and my sister, although we didn’t find out until many years later he’d killed himself.<\/p>\n

I often wonder how our conversations would have gone if he were still around. Still the memories are there and so are the records. I still have that single!<\/p>\n

I was listening to the best of ELO CD today and one song brought back some memories. The Diary of Horace Wimp was a single that my Uncle Alan played me when I went to visit him once. I was only 9 or 10 when I went to see him for the day. Mum put … <\/p>\n

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