This is Peter ‘90

Taking a leaf out of Shane Meadows This is England ’90 I cast my mind back to 1990.

Married for five years with three boys four and under. Like Woody, I was a househusband staying home with the kids while the wife was out grafting. Socially with three young kids there was not much happening like time to party but we did the deed (three times) so we had to take the consequences which meant little to no social life. My getaway was Cardiff City and an ever-decreasing number of away games and the odd trip to the pub.

On the subject of Cardiff they were in the sh*t and I could have cried but didn’t. That year offered relegation followed by Division 4 football. It was tough times but your team was your team.

Money was tight so there was not much to splash around with the priority the family, always the family. However, there was always a meal on the table and a lot of love. Love on a shoestring, how quaint, but not fun.

Satellite came to the house in the shape of British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) I picked them over Sky because they had the rights for the Football League. It didn’t last long before BSB merged with Sky Television, becoming British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and we got a free sky dish. TV was mostly used to keep the children happy and quite but in-between the adults in the house have chance to watch more grown up TV.

Musically nothing much happen that year to set me alight leaving me to make do with past glories of the music industry. Emma came sixth in Eurovision Song Contest singing "Give a Little Love Back to the World" that was when some countries in Europe liked us.

The weather was typical British fair at the beginning of the year there were storms to deal with and a summer heatwave with a couple of nice dollops of snow towards Christmas only for storms to return before the big day.Looking back it was not the most interesting time in my life but that is marriage and kids for you.

Fashion and me, that is a joke, I was in the jeans, t-shirt, and High-Tec trainer’s tribe putting two fingers up to trends and shell suits.

The big news story that year was President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk announcing the release of Nelson Mandela and I remember him walking out from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars. The Poll Tax Riots in London made interesting TV if you liked carnage and later that year Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as Leader of the Conservative Party and therefore as Prime Minister after failing to win outright victory in a leadership contest. She cried on leaving Downing Street but there was a large cheer in some communities around the country blighted by her policies.