Joe: I loved Fridays. We got fish and chips from Kidd's on the Height (Dave Polshaw would have told you about it). Mean portions, but the quality stupendous. And if you didn't get roped into Benediction, all the evening free.

Lent meant giving up sweets (which also meant saving for a plastic aeroplane kit). Pancake Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, all the candles out in church through Lent (except for the two big ones beside the altar), then Holy Week with all the statues and crosses draped in purple wraps...

Never liked Good Friday though, despite the hot cross buns.