The Sky at night for me, was a big part of my adolescent years. I'd stay up late, down in the back room and watch the sky at night. It would utterly fascinate me. Just thinking about how vast the universe was; and how meagre Earth was in comparison; and how inconsequential I was in the grand scheme of things. After my fix of astronomy....feeling all knowledgeable and inconsequential; I'd access the German channels through our old analogue Sky box; which were laden with borderline hard-core porn dramas. Say what you like about the Germans; their watershed level was much more palatable to a 12 year old me, than that of the UK watershed, which to be frank was a bit shit! Blame Mary fucking Whitehouse! It didn't matter that I didn't understand. There was bush, and bush in abundance. Occasionally, I'd get the two mixed up. . . . You try banging one off, to the post impact analysis reports pertaining to the Shoemaker-levy incident on Jupiter.
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