To say I was born in the early 70s

Was out shopping with my Dad the other day and saw Ski fruit mousses. Haven't laid eyes on them in decades, and when I last did, they came in a waxed paper churn shaped pot with a foil lid. Had a wistful sigh, and dear old Dad offered to buy me some. I declined, because I know from the Wagon Wheel debacle when my kids were young that it just WON'T BE THE SAME. No full fat creaminess and no sugar 😭 ......I won't get fooled again.

See also the latest iteration of Toast Toppers 🤢

Oooh scratch and sniff stickers!! I had a coconut pudding the other day that smelled just like one 😆

Cartwheels up against the wall and skipping was all girls could do at primary playtime🤨

Smash Hits magazine! Fast Forward magazine!
Just 17!

UK Marvel comics!

Shame. Mine was in Birmingham. Must have been a common thing. We used to go into the boys playground to deliberately annoy them!

Although hiding in changing rooms doesn’t seem so good nowadays🧐

77 here. 2p bus fair to school or town

10p mix

Half pennies

Glass bottles of pop that you cleaned out and returned for a refund

Going to school in the snow and making epic skiddy patches of black ice to slide on

French skipping, handstands, cartwheeling, imaginative play

Care bears, transformers, real ghostbusters, thundercats, mysterious cities of gold. TV theme tunes!

Golden girls, fresh Prince, wonder years, neighbours and home and away

Lego that wasn't gendered

Atari, nes and Sega that weren't gendered

Planning phone calls so when the phone rings at a certain time, you can shout "it's for me!"

The fear of skinning your knees and elbows in the playground made you really good at risk assessment and you really honed your skills

Playing out, knocking on for your friends

Wakaday with timmy mallet

Mr Benn

Lots of people change certain details to avoid being identified i do it often. Why are you trolling the op?

@Barleycat No, i don't think so, my school was a, Catholic Primary in Liverpool.

I put my jelly bag next to the radiator in our 'temporary' class room in secondary school and it melted during a history lesson 😂😂

Those pink foam Papillon curler things that were supposed to give you a fake spiral perm but left you looking like Crystal Tips.

Oh my GOD, @MistressoftheDarkSide, I haven’t thought of these for decades but I can literally smell them now!! The bottle of spray setting lotion that came with them…

I would add:

Smash Hits magazine

Reading my mum’s Cosmopolitan in secret

Hight waisted jeans with braces and thinking I was the absolute queen of style 😆

Frozen mousses in a pack of 10 from the supermarket - mint chocolate if my sister got to pick; peach Melba if I did.

We had the same playground set up. Boys was much longer. Wonder if we went to the same school- HJS?

Oh lots of nostalgia! My mum learnt to drive in the early eighties (in a mini metro 😃) but she was definitely an anomaly among her friends. Things I look back on fondly;

Arctic roll 😋
Roller discos
Jeans with cartoon prints on them
Lace gloves a la Madonna 🤣
10p mix from the sweet shop
Body shop mulberry perfume
Heather shimmer lipstick
Jazz aftershave on the boys
Taping the charts
Taping live aid on VHS
Making up dances to 5 star
Discovering hip hop with NWA
Sun in!
Holidays to spain and eating lemon ice cream out of a frozen lemon

Can anyone remember a self tan oil that was really dark? I have a really vivid memory of my older dB and his mates covering themselves in it to try to look like George Michael and it raining and them all running back home with brown streaks down their little white shorts!

I remember Hartley Hare and Pipkins!

I can still remember the first time I saw a Walkman. Katie Kershaw brought it into junior school and we all gathered round her in the playground. That was around 1983 which is now more than 40 years ago.🫨

OMG CLackers!

TOTP and recording music on tapes
Does anyone remember growing up with Hartley Hare?

Sarah Moon prints on my bedroom wall.

Crimping my hair, desperately trying to look like a New Romantic, even when I was far too young to get into any club.

Thinking my best friend was mad for being the only girl studying computers with a handful of boys who we had nothing to do with. She had the last laugh!

My granny loved that Anne of Green Gables series. That was late 80s. My dad recorded it on VCR.

Another series around that time (which dad also recorded) was screened each Sunday for about 6 weeks on the BBC, the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe. Always loved the theme tune for it.

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Clackers (banned at school), skipping was HUGE. My dad worked on the Parks and got me a massive rope! The playground would be filled with skipping ropes. Clapping songs were also very popular. Huge excitement in Primary if the wheeled tv made an appearance! We had an unofficial boys playground and a girls playground, boys played football in theirs and we skipped in ours! Teachers asking for, "Two big, strong boys" to carry benches etc. Lots of hands would shoot up for that. Children competing to hold the teachers hand in the playground, handbell to signify playtime was over. Remember singing Lily The Pink and doing music and movement in PE.

Findus Crispy Pancakes
Funky Belts
Jelly shoes and jelly bags
Twilight Teaser from number 17
The Adventure Game
Tree House toy (Playmobil?) God I wanted one.

Saturday afternoon US TV series:
Dukes of Hazzard
Knight Rider
The Fall Guy
The A Team
Macgyver
the one with the helicopter
the one with the motorbike
And probably loads that I can’t remember!