whenever someone returns from overseas incarceration eg. Terry Waite, Nelson Mandela, they always publish a list of what life was like when they were first "captured"..to illustrate the differences and what is likely to amaze them:

so here goes - for PB!!

in 1992...

-UK had just been kicked out of the ERM
-Major was PM
-I was at Uni!!

any ideas of a price of a pint of beer?!

PB would have "missed":

Diana's death
Queen mother's death
Inauguration of the Premiership??
Blair's Britain
National Lottery


any more?

badgers

I was just 11 so I don't know what a pint of beer cost in 1992

Here's my contribution anyway:

Scottish and Welsh devolution
Pop Idol
Tony Martin and the "protecting your home" debate
The end of the BT and British Gas monopolys
The rise of Asda Walmart and "all-in-one" superstores

Real ale sales down
Wine sales up
All Bar Ones and other pub chains have taken over town centres, although Starbucks and Pret-a-Mangers are making a fight of it.

Nobody would miss Pop Idol!

My brother spent 18 months in Thaliand during the first pop idol and he knew nothing about it when he came back!

I knew nothing about it while I was here!

The rise of Water Meters !

The Rise and Fall of those black things on top of tellies to get digital and then bust?

The rise in Rates, A B ....up to E bloody areas

The rise in train fares and fall in places on them to sit


goodness there are more but I am in a good mood....hee hee

I was at Uni too in 1992 and as far as I can remember, a pint of Snake bite and black cost about £1.20, and a pint of ale cost £1.30 in our student's union. It was subsidised, so add a few more pence onto that. Mind you, being an old fart, I'm sure PB will find a working man's club somewhere in the Midlands that he can get a cheap pint.

Don't forget that quality soap opera Eldorado! :scared:

Back in 1992 HIV was thought just to be a fad, but it seems to be very popular now.

PC

Been so full in Australia that most of that passed me by , I mean building sand castles on the beach is a full time job , just tried to think whats happen in Australia in the last 9 years but bugger all covers it.