John GrindrodIt’s #Drabvent, day 1. This year it’s going to be very different, higher budget, more spectacular. From Money Go Round, 1977
Welcome to day 2 of #Drabvent. Here’s Newsround explaining the allure of fast food in 1981
#Drabvent day 3: choose your ITV or BBC TV lounge for the day, on a holiday camp at Hayling Island on Wish You Were Here, 1974
Day 5 of #Drabvent. It’s 1976 with that typical mode of transport: showgirls dragging a bloke on a sled across the Birmingham NEC car park
It’s #Drabvent day 6 so here’s some urgent business news from 1979
#Drabvent day 8. It’s 1977 and all the young people are going wild at a Sex Pistols gig
#Drabvent Day 9. 1977 was the year Star Wars was released.
It’s #Drabvent day 10, with some Datsun car bonnet glamour
Nothing says #Drabvent day 11 like that 1974 #CoronationStreet Christmas where Albert Tatlock and Ena Sharples approached pulling a cracker as a great Cold War stand off
It’s #Drabvent day 12 - and now from Norwich it’s the quiz of the week… A bumper crop of prizes from The Sale of the Century
Day 13 of #Drabvent. If Hewlett Packard made reindeer
#Drabvent day 14 shows us the joy and liberation Green Shield Stamps can bring
Day 15 of #Drabvent. Seconds later Elon Musk bought this futuristic contraption and sacked the inventors
#drabvent day 16 brings us the Generation Game conveyor belt from 1974
#drabvent day 17 shows the care with which quality products were treated in 1974
Day 18 reminds us that #Drabvent isn’t the only gripping countdown available
Day 19 of #Drabvent features the most festive of all foods
It’s #Drabvent day 20 and the Crossroads milkman is here
The 21st day of #drabvent is also the winter #dullstice. There is only one traditional way to mark the day
Webber@webber I promise to continue being drab throughout 2023
@Grindrod Something we can all aspire to.