Growing up in the 70's

Duh, yes

Middle, do you mean Cat's cradle?

Did anyone play that game with elastic; big long lengths that you had to twist into different patterns between your two hands?

Blake 7
Chinese ropes (a long rope made out of tights you had to jump over)
Fizz bombs
Making cracks in the tarmac using a magnifying glass
Gorgeous long hot summers

We didnt have size zero and this crap obsessive celebrity culture and shit reality tv in the 70s either.

I wasn't allowed to do metal work or woodwork, only home economics or needlework. We did have a fridge though.

The Three-Day Week was one of several measures introduced in the United Kingdom by the Conservative Government 1970–1974 to conserve electricity, the production of which was severely limited due to industrial action by coal miners. The effect was that from 1 January until 7 March 1974 commercial users of electricity would be limited to three specified consecutive days' consumption each week and prohibited from working longer hours on those days. Services deemed essential (e.g. hospitals, supermarkets and newspaper prints) were exempt. Television companies were required to cease broadcasting at 10.30 pm during the crisis to conserve electricity.

I love this thread.
Having tartan strips applied to my jeans a la Bay City Rollers
Taping the Top 40 on radio 1 on a sunday night
Yes to long dresses for parties
Yes to sliced banana with home made curry. Sprinkled with desiccated coconut might've been my mum only
Going to friends who had a telly to watch Princess Ann get married

My life wasn't like that ^^.

No street gangs here, and we had a fridge. Then we had central heating in 1976.

Wasn't the miners strike in the 80's?

All girls did metalwork and woodwork at my school. And all the boys did needlework. (Mid 70'S)

Miners strike, domestic abuse being ignored by the police, street gangs, heavy tranquiliser prescription by GPs. No central heating, no fridge, no phone. Child sex abuse bringing shame on the victim's family, employers at work knowing it was fine to give their secretaries the ocassional slap on the buttocks. Female children not allowed to do any engineering or technical subjects at high school and being taught how to sew and iron instead.
Crap food, Angel Delight, hardly any fruit, living on corned beef and potatoes.
Children being beaten with leather belts in schools. Scabies and head lice rife.

No I wouln't want to go back there again.

I remember:
Loon pants
Afghan coats that stank of wet dog when they got rained on
Bazooka Bubblegum
The smell of Patchouli oil
Angel Delight
Sugar sandwiches
Gorgeous hot summers
Miners makeup
Chopper bikes
The music! I had a huge crush on Mickey Finn from T Rex and had posters of him and Marc Bolan on my bedroom wall

Teachers who had fought in the war and a classroom map where half the world was still coloured pink.

The Baxtendale boys and chopper bikes.

Heather Shimmer lipstick and belted jumpers.

Sugar sandwiches
condensed milk sandwiches
Angel delight
Shaker maker

Watching Shang a Lang
The Double Deckers
Rent-a-Ghost
Magpie
Lolly gobble choc bombs
That 'cooldrinkineverfizzin" Pepsi advert
Like to teach the World to sing coke advert
Nimble bread
Crotcheted waistcoat with ties
Trouser suits

I remember Energen Rolls, Ayds and PLJ. My Dsis always on a diet.
Maltegen (vile stuff)
Space Hoppers were rubbish. I hardly bounced at all.
Within These Walls with Googie Withers.
Cherry B and Barley Wine.
Plasticraft - how much I wanted one, but never did get one.
Hotpants
Fizzy pop was a treat, for your birthday. As was icecream.
Tank tops with stars on the front.
Waiting for things to come into season, like lettuce and pomegranates.
The first taste of new potatoes - only 2 each as they were so expensive.
Avon Pretty Peach and Topaz perfumes.
Boots Skin Care Story
Miners make up
I was left on my own from age 9, every night when parents went to the pub.
Open University programmes on BBC2.
Eating buttered Weetabix.
If you had felt-tip pens at school, you really were someone.
French knitting/skipping/hopscotch crazes. In the school yard all the girls were doing the same thing, then go on to something else.
Shaking milk in a jar to make butter.

i had long party dresses i used to wear for friends birthday parties. first one was green and white with green flowers and/or leaves on the bottom half and when i grew out of that one it was replaced with a long blue and white one.

I remember:
1/2p sweets
Our car had plastic seats which got sooo hot in the summer & mum used to put towels over the seats for us to sit on
French skipping
Long party dresses - I never had one, mum used to send me to parties in my (nylon) long frilly nightie
Rainbow, Zippy & Bungle
Continental quilts! I slept under sheets & blankets before that...
Mum used to make curry and serve it with a little dish of sliced banana on the side (no idea if this was a 70s thing or my mum's weird ideas about food!)
Bright bright pink strawberry yoghurt chockful of artificial colours
Mum did all her food shopping at Sainsbury's and I remember their logo was "It's clean at Sainsbury's" or something like that!

I occasionally buy Wagon Wheels for DH Im damn sure theyve got smaller.

Curly Wurlys deffo have Apparently while they were filming Ashes to Ashes (Life on Mars sequel) they asked for authentic Curly Wurly wrappers and apparently they HAVE got smaller.