400. I remember tadpoles in a jar
401. I remember candy floss
402. I remember having a hyperlink explained to me for the first time, and thinking that this was quite interesting
403. I remember the music group Middle of the Road, who named themselves in age before irony existed
404. I remember Mick McManus
405. I remember not being allowed to stay up to watch the Moon landing live on television (it took place after midnight). The bitterness I felt has never left me
406. I remember gladly my cross-eyed bear
407. I remember ‘Popcorn’ by Hot Butter
408. I remember Orlando the Marmalade Cat
410. I remember the unbelievable thrill of seeing myself on television for the first time (a blur of blonde hair at the back of the audience at a jazz festival). 30 years later I met the filmmaker
411. I remember Cyril Fletcher and his odd odes
412. I remember Jacob Bronowski and The Ascent of Man, which made you feel so much more intelligent than you actually were
413. I remember rice pudding
414. I remember my album of football cards
415. I remember modems
416. I remember Lol Coxhill
417. I remember Murray Mints, Murray Mints, too good to hurry mints
418. I remember Rutland
419. I remember Kurt Russell being in Disney film after Disney film
420. I remember The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
421. I remember thinking that my parents’ relatively meagre bookshelves must contain information about everything I could possibly want to know
422. I remember Malcolm Muggeridge
423. I remember Carl Andre’s bricks and the furore that they caused
424. I remember that Carl Andre’s uncle was Raymond Baxter, the TV presenter of Tomorrow’s World
425. I remember God’s cop, the truly awful James Anderton
426. I remember flexi discs
427. I remember They’re coming to take me away ha haaa ho ho hee hee / To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time / And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men / In their clean white coats / And they’re coming to take me away ha haaa
428. I remember Joseph Cooper and his dummy keyboard
429. I remember concept albums