The television had been reluctantly

placed back in my bedroom,

although hardly watched, only for three or four

programmes that I truly wanted

to see,

Doctor Who, Match of the Day, Top of the Pops

or the late night horror film which

took me through teenage years and the sound of the

Vampire scream as he burned to ash, smoke rising,

enough to stoke the fires of the imagination,

so no great loss in the scheme of things,

but I was desperate to watch the event