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The Year was 1989 Ben Pawson was 9 years old.

At school we still got Arctic roll for dessert, which lets be honest was the best. We learnt that in Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy had been found in the Great Pyramid of Giza, I thought that my mum was old at 35.

Also at school I finally got picked for the football team, something I wanted to be apart of for ages. Only problem was I was very short at school and they put me in defence, didn’t seem to be my ideal role. My football shirt was a couple of sizes too big so I didn’t make an imposing figure like say…Terry Butcher.

Don’t worry i’ve not been hit in the face with a football, I had only just started to loose my milk teeth.

A lot of my time was spent in front of the TV, my excuse

In February Woof! Made its debut so straight after school I would be glued to that, and Fun House also premiered. Homework never stood a chance. On Weekend mornings I was up at the crack of dawn in my Thundercats pj’s, with a bowl of frosties on my lap ready to watch Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers.

One of the first films I saw at the cinema was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery. After watching this I dug many holes in the garden looking for secret passage ways much to the despair of my parents, luckily it didn’t turn out to be my last crusade.

I did a lot of drawing usually of space battles as I loved Star Wars and perfected the Millennium Falcon.
The toy was my favourite Birthday present that year so I’d got something to compare with.

Whenever he had time off work my Dad would spend hours drawing with me so I think at that age I probably started to enjoy drawing and painting and realised that in the future I would like to do something artistic and had got over the ‘I want to be a fire man’ stage. One of the great artists of the centaury whether you loved or hated his work passed away on the 23rd of January, Salvador Dalí made a massive impact on the world of art and surrealist painting.