As a young adult I absolutely *loved* "Shark in the Park". So you and your colleagues brought a lot of happiness. To me it was "Hill St Blues", but delivered in our voices.
A friend of mine at the time, who was older and more worldly, claimed it was simply a propaganda piece to cover up the bad image the police had from 1981 (Red Squad/Blue Squad). I'm not sure our TV production worked that way, even for state media but perhaps you know otherwise?
The story of the grey suits and envelopes is heartbreaking. My cohort was just beginning our working lives and many of my friends had what they had hoped to be long careers truncated (I was shielded in some ways by a long period of post-graduate education here and abroad). It was the end of the idea of "public good" in the Arts, Science and Education as well as many other domains. A terrible blow our society has yet to recover from.
Brought a tear to me eye. The bastards! I think I must have seen the writing on the wall in about 1989 (?). I was mega-stressed anyway - and took LWOP for 6 months. They'd tried to promote me into some sort of customer relations jobby - so not my sort of thing. I did have occasional regrets about not waiting around for the golden handshake but as my dear sister pointed out, I'd have been really really mad by then. I'm enjoying these memoirs of yours, Dan. You must have kept copious notes! Or a good fiiling system. More please.
It is all in my big(now scarred) head where my cursed photographic memory resides.
If you wanted the euthanasia by boredom option you should be able to access my Substack archive where all my posts going back to January of this year are available.
Haven’t really found my ‘voice’ yet but it will come. Writing is like most other endeavours you have to practice, practice, practice.
My inspiration is from David Slack who is an outstandingly good writer. He turns out a newsletter every day as you know, and they are almost always pure gems of writing style. He reminds me of George Orwell who was a superb wordsmith with the most distinct voice.
Of course David was for years a top journalist and feature writer so he has all the skills I hope to develop in myself.
A very funny man too don’t you think? I often laugh out loud at some of the things he writes.
Hey Dan don’t forget MIKA was also one of the constables! I loved working on that show, I think it was my last before leaving for my OE. I also took LWOP, so never resigned, and never got made redundant. Perhaps I should ask for back pay harr harr
As a young adult I absolutely *loved* "Shark in the Park". So you and your colleagues brought a lot of happiness. To me it was "Hill St Blues", but delivered in our voices.
A friend of mine at the time, who was older and more worldly, claimed it was simply a propaganda piece to cover up the bad image the police had from 1981 (Red Squad/Blue Squad). I'm not sure our TV production worked that way, even for state media but perhaps you know otherwise?
The story of the grey suits and envelopes is heartbreaking. My cohort was just beginning our working lives and many of my friends had what they had hoped to be long careers truncated (I was shielded in some ways by a long period of post-graduate education here and abroad). It was the end of the idea of "public good" in the Arts, Science and Education as well as many other domains. A terrible blow our society has yet to recover from.
Thank you Quentin. Your generosity fills my heart.
Brought a tear to me eye. The bastards! I think I must have seen the writing on the wall in about 1989 (?). I was mega-stressed anyway - and took LWOP for 6 months. They'd tried to promote me into some sort of customer relations jobby - so not my sort of thing. I did have occasional regrets about not waiting around for the golden handshake but as my dear sister pointed out, I'd have been really really mad by then. I'm enjoying these memoirs of yours, Dan. You must have kept copious notes! Or a good fiiling system. More please.
Thank you Alison. Those words mean so much to me.
I don’t have any notes or files.
It is all in my big(now scarred) head where my cursed photographic memory resides.
If you wanted the euthanasia by boredom option you should be able to access my Substack archive where all my posts going back to January of this year are available.
Haven’t really found my ‘voice’ yet but it will come. Writing is like most other endeavours you have to practice, practice, practice.
My inspiration is from David Slack who is an outstandingly good writer. He turns out a newsletter every day as you know, and they are almost always pure gems of writing style. He reminds me of George Orwell who was a superb wordsmith with the most distinct voice.
Of course David was for years a top journalist and feature writer so he has all the skills I hope to develop in myself.
A very funny man too don’t you think? I often laugh out loud at some of the things he writes.
Bless
Hey Dan don’t forget MIKA was also one of the constables! I loved working on that show, I think it was my last before leaving for my OE. I also took LWOP, so never resigned, and never got made redundant. Perhaps I should ask for back pay harr harr
Yeah, sorry about that.
We still called him Neil in those days. We were good mates.
He also auditioned for Mark II in 1985.
That was the first time I met him. He was a cheeky confident chappie but very good to work with.
Ashamed to say I had forgotten their real name, maybe when I grow up I’ll get a memory like yours
Ha ha. There’s far too much shite in my head.