It's the summer of '76 and I'm off to the corner shop on my bike....

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And I'm getting an orange mivvy, and some fruit salads

I’ve got a note from my mum asking for 20 John Players grin]

I would like a Mint Cracknel please. Ta.

Ooooh can you please get me a packet of Pacers, thanks .

I'm looking at the melting tar on the road as you cycle by.

Black Jacks and a couple of barley twists please

Ooh and a copy of the Jackie would be good.

I’m four and playing in a paddling pool in my grandparents garden wearing nothing but a fetching bucket hat (I have to photos to prove it). I’d like a haunted house lolly and a can of Tizer please.

I think you may be having an Orange Maid, not Mivvi, but you could have a strawberry, raspberry or pineapple mivvi. Can I have a Haunted House?

Hold on while I get my Chopper bike from the garage. I'll come with you as i I fancy a 10 pence mix up with plenty of black jacks

Oooh. Chap on my door as you pass and I'll chum you on my roller skates.

My gran wants me to go and pick up some carnation milk to go with the jelly and she's given me a penny for gaun. (Scottish folk only might get that)

Whoops, just cycled through another white dog turd on the way. I have a list from my Mum. She wants 20 Silk Cut, S.T.'s, which the shop keeper will discretely put in a brown paper bag and she says I can have a pack of spangles. Result.

It's the hottest summer ever and water has been rationed in some areas. We've been advised to 'bath with a friend'. I'm living in a studio flat (bedsit), it will be freezing in the winter because its only got a two bar electric fire but I don't know that yet.

I'm 12 and developing a tan which will result in (a) a frilly tan mark across my chest from my favourite sundress and (b) white feet and ankles from ankle socks which will take decades to catch up with my legs

Well we have no water and mum's at the standpipe. Just had a funny feet lolly to cool down whilst reading my Bunty. My favourite story is the four Mary's.

I'm on my bike and will pop into the sweet shop before spending the day cycling round the park on my own. I might pop into to Jackie's house later to see if she wants to come out. Sometime we mess about in the phone box making prank calls!

I think I'm going to get some spangles and black jacks or maybe refreshers. I don't have enough for a mint cracknell or ice-breaker. If I find any returnable pop bottles in the park i might take them to the shop so I can get more sweets.

Watch out watch out there's a Humphrey about!

And I've got a lemonade bottle to take back and my mum said I can spend the return money on a packet of space invaders and some bubblegum bottles

I left my nasty ‘shopper’ bike in the shed for my brother and took his chopper

Get us a cider lolly, please. Ta.

Bag of those chocolate Counters please- white bag with an animal on the front! Have you got room in your white saddlebag for everything?

I'd like some pineapple cubes. Then I'm off to climb some trees and listen to my Abba cassette. Happy days.

Redazzy I was just going to say s towels!!

It’s too hot to go anywhere.

I'm 17 and camping on the Isle of Wight with 7 other girls, and having a ball. We took a transistor radio with us and the most played songs were Afternoon Delight, Blue Jeans and Don't Go Breaking My Heart.

Such happy memories of that long hot summer.

A LADYBIRD JUST BIT ME!