Memory Mixtape #7: Pictures On My Wall

I never had band posters on my wall when I was a kid, despite belonging to the Smash Hits generation. Instead, my walls were plastered with posters from superhero comics as you'll see below... 

Actually, you'll notice that in the photo at the end, the one with the extra special Spider-Man bedspread, the walls are free of posters. That's because by then I'd started using the box room at the top of the stairs as my comics storage room, and the middle two photos are from that room. (See the back of my early teenage head in the third picture. A photographer I wasn't.)

That last photo is the most interesting to me. The stickers on my headboard (I can spot Pac Man and ET among the superheroes). The tatty furniture; yet my heart aches to look at it now. To the left, I can see the old clock radio with the red digits on the clock face. Tuned to Radio 2 on evenings, Radio 1 during the day, with a built in cassette to record the highlights of Steve Wright In The Afternoon (back when he was worth listening to). I can see my old watch on the top shelf, a little green safe with a really easy combination one shelf down, the edge of a bookshelf to the left, and I don't know what that grey green thing is on the floor...

I look at these photos now and I remember feeling safe and happy. What else can you ask of your childhood?