For as long as I can remember I’ve always loved magazines, and even to this day, long after my teens, I still dash to the shops when all the new titles are out.
I remember the obsession starting around the time an aunt who used to work in a newsagent used to give me a handful of different comics and magazines every week.
I’m no better nowadays, in fact I’m worse!
As a child. it would be Twinkle comic, and reading about the antics of Nurse Nancy looking after her dolls in her Toy Hospital.
Then a little older, I’d get off the school bus and it’d be a trip across the road to the local shop to buy the latest copy of Look – In, Smash Hits, TV Hits, or Just Seventeen magazine.
Then getting home and carefully taking out the posters and sticking them up all over the wall.
If you wanted something to read apart from the celeb goss and music interviews, you couldn’t beat the good old fashioned photo stories you got.
The ones with the photos and the speech bubbles coming out of of the people’s heads. Can you even get them anymore?! I haven’t seen one of those for ages….
Blue Jeans, and also Patches magazine were both firm favourites.
Nowadays I still read everything and anything, from Heat for the weekly celeb gossip to Take A Break for the real life stories.
I’m sure there’s lots more I used to read that I’ve completely forgotten about!
Were you a magazine nut like me?
You can find what others used to read and have some more nostalgia moments over here: http://saveeverystep.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/old-teen-magazines-lifes-a-journey-blog-hop-week-18/
Wow, I’d forgotten about Twinkle! Enjoyed that trip down Memory Lane. I started on Twinkle too, moved on to Bunty, then Jackie, Just 17, then Melody Maker. Started reading Heat when I had my eldest and look forward to buying it every week!
Great to see you remembering Twinkle!! Thanks for taking part in the weely nostalgia Link Up at SaveEveryStep! If you enjoyed the trip down memory lane, I’d love some help to spread the word about this weekly Linky to other Bloggers..the more the merrier!
By coincidence, Wendy, I’ve also talked about comics in my blog this week: bit.ly/L0vs7u
Believe it or not, I also read Twinkle for a while. This came about when my first comic, Magic, was merged into it. For a few weeks it was called Twinkle and Magic, until the Magic name was dropped and the strapline returned and there I was, a little boy reading Twinkle – The picture paper specially for little girls!
Oh, not seen your comic blog entry yet, will have to have a look! Why not link it up to the blog hop? The more the merrier
I don’t remember the Magic name, I can only remember the Twinkle bit – I was very young when reading Twinkle though, so probably didn’t read it when it was Magic too.
Ahhhhh I used to get just seventeen, love it!!