Charlotte writes: I admire your blog alot and luv spending time here. I was wondering about something a bit on the obscure side from the...

Glenda Banks (Lynette McMorrough) is thrilled to hear from the hospital that the time has come for her to try for a test tube baby. Her moth...

  1988 - Griff Rhys Jones, Lenny Henry and Jonathan Ross take part in the very first Red Nose Day. Did you wear your red nose today? ...

Time to celebrate a very special birthday! Roland Rat was born in the sewer under King's Cross Station on 12 March, and made his TV d...

Time warpin' back to 1982... Remember Dunk, Crunch, Bixie, Brian and Brains? " OK?!" squawks Brian, whilst Dunk glowers......

Several wonderful comments and e-mails - thanks, folks! Glad a few people are reading '80s Actual ! Andrew (another Andrew!) asks: ...

Here's Neneh Cherry giving us her BRILLIANT Buffalo Stance and sporting a pair of 1980s doorknocker ear- rings. '80s ear-rings ...

They met in August 1981. And Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe made a Docklands development-sized impact on the mid-to-late 1980s popular music ...

Faye asks: Did the Cold War end in 1989 or 1991? There seem to be differing views on this and I'd value yours! I'll give you...

Remember Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus? The song, of course, leapt up the pop charts. Smash Hits interviewed one of the stars in their...

Twirling back down the years to the 1980s, the "Style Decade", is such a pleasure. Want to know what to eat? How to furnish you...

So excited to read that Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself , the Thames TV comedy written by David Firth and Peter Tilbury (now mainly ...

Georgina asks: What is that material draped across the foreground of the photo of your 1980s bedroom? Ah, Georgina, t'was my coat - ...

  Lovely 1980s Cadbury's Wispa chocolate bar (read our article on Wispa here ), with bar code and sticky price label. 18p! And they w...