I'm afraid you're going to feel positively ancient, Billy...I was 10!
I was...well, I can't remember that much, if I'm honest, but I was very much into cars, still, an obsession I'd had for about three years but which ran its course soon afterwards. I was involved in a school production of Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat, in which I played one of the eleven brothers; my most prominent lines, 'grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop, fall/worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl' - this was a roaring success at the local Navy training establishment, HMS Sultan, in the July of '05.
I recall how we walked from our school in one part of town to the establishment which was around two miles away - and back - every time we went there to rehearse, in June and July, and on one such trip I happened to walk into a lamp post and hit my head, much to my peers' amusement...I've always had a penchant for clumsiness
In the January I celebrated my tenth birthday with a Bart Simpson cake, about £20 and a ride in my second cousin's battered Toyota van, which I absolutely loved. I also received my first-ever camera, an Oregon Scientific point-and-shoot - which was notable for being the smallest camera available to the public at that time. It was utterly awful, though.
I was still into Harry Potter, but wouldn't have bought the book until a bit later; 2005 was the year of my love affair with A Series of Unfortunate Events. That was, and remains (as my Facebook friends know) one of my all-time favourite series of books, perhaps even my favourite. For some reason, I particularly enjoyed the tale of the siblings going to a strange, mythical island ruled by a man called Ishmael - so much so that when Tugger created a forum series character here called Ishmael in '06, I jumped straight in and told him all about the books I'd been reading, which must have bemused him a bit, because he'd never heard of them. Tugger was mtugby back then, of course, and his series would go on to rival that of Redrum666 for the title of 'the forum's greatest'; for me, Tugger's actually pips Red's to the post, on a technicality alone: that he was the
original. Anyway, that's not 2005...
In May of '05, I'd moved house for the first time in 3 years and 9 months, which was the longest spell I'd ever spent at a single address until that point. Our new place would be ours until July 2009, though, eclipsing that record.
Said new place was on a road which backed onto a creek - I glanced towards the dead end, saw a solitary wreck protruding from the roadside, and the rest, as they say, was history. I've spent most of my free time since then researching, documenting, photographing and recording the 33 shipwrecks in that creek - as and when I feel like it, nowadays.
In the September, I went on a school residential trip to Osmington Bay, out in the countryside, which was wonderful. I fell back in love with my first flame, a girl called Alison; she loved dolphins, and I bought her trinkets - a dolphin clock, a small model dolphin - but the love was unrequited, and although she accepted the clock, the little dolphin sits on the windowledge in my room today. Not because of her, we're just good friends now, just because I've actually come to like it myself.
November was cold, and barren, and December I can't remember a minute of.
I remember I walked in on my dad watching DoND, though, at some point, and I thought something like, 'what on earth is this?'.
As in '05, as in '15...
FAQ
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:19 am Author: Billy Post subject: What were you doing in 2005?
Over a month later I found this place, which helped me feel a less lonely over the next few years during my worst years at high school. I wouldn't change any of it! 
), while teenagers were all listening to Emo music at the time 
Would've just been starting secondary school back then. I still remember the first episode I ever watched was Mally's game, since then I was hooked on the show for like a year afterwards (I literally didn't want to miss a single episode).
