A DALEK CHRISTMAS...

I hadn't long started my new school and 'twas coming up for

Christmas when my class was tasked with each creating a calendar

for the approaching New Year of 1966.  This consisted of sticking a

picture onto a piece of card and then attaching a calendar tab to the

bottom of it.  I used a photo of The DALEKS, cut from the cover
of an issue of TV CENTURY 21, the most likely candidate being
#36, which I'd bought back in September while still in my old
home and attending my previous primary school.

The reason I recall the event is because I had no concept

of the years changing number every January 1st and was slightly

perplexed by the 1966 calendar tab.  My mother explained that it

was currently 1965, which would become 1966 on the last stroke

of midnight on December 31st .  For some reason I regarded 1965

as 'forever' and thought that the year would return to that number
at some point in time not long after.  When I asked if this was
so, my mother informed me of my misconception.

Yes, it's true - I was a remarkably thick child for my age,
but, hey - I'd never had to write and date a letter, so what did
I know about such things?  Nothing, obviously.  Incidentally, al-
though I say that #36 was most likely the issue I culled the cover
from, it could possibly have been from issue #s 23 or 28, as I
think I'd cut and saved the Dalek pics from them.  We'll just
say it was #36 'though, as it was the most recent issue with
a Dalek cover and therefore probably was.

Of no interest to anyone but myself, but it's my blog and
I'll reminisce if I want to.  Got any memories of this cover?
   Then feel free to share them with your fellow Criv-ites.   

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