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’m very popular round here though cos Dad dug up a patch of the garden to make me my very own sand pit.

I've just turned 11 and we're on our annual holiday in Scotland - the weather is gorgeous and we can actually sunbathe on the beach! Only a poor little boy got a fishing hook stuck in his foot when he was running down to the sea. He wouldn't stop screaming and it was really scary.

Me and my lovely Scottish friend Moira are going to a disco in the local town tomorrow night. I'll wear my best orange flares with the wide waistband and my brown shirt with the big floppy collar. I'm going to look fab!

My Mum has decided to cut my hair so I look extra nice for the disco. She's decided we should freshen things up and I should have it very short and punky.

I hate it! I want my long hair back! Mind you, it's better than when she did that home perm on me last year 😱

Awww glad it made you smile @MrsGrindah I used to love a dance/song combo and if the song didn't have a dance I made one up!

Your dad sounds rather wonderful @MrsGrindah not surprised you where popular.

I’m one and my mum is expecting my sister. We live quite rurally and sometimes get stuck behind the cows on their way to be milked. Mum says she knows how they feel!

There are basking sharks off the coast where we live, but as I only ever sit on the sand at the edge of the tide, with a frilly bonnet on, that doesn’t matter to me.

My Mum went mad!

I'm 6 and waiting for the Unigate milk man to deliver the milk before the "Humphreys are about" and I will use my red and white striped straw to drink it!

We’re having rissoles to eat

And great excitement as KFC has arrived in town

I’m on my way to Cornwall for 2 weeks on a sleeper train where my nose will burn and peel and then get burnt again ,,

In having a 10p mix and a quenchy cup. My big sister will have a bar of Highland Toffee and a dentist appointment ...

My mum is heavily pregnant with me - not sure she enjoyed that heatwave 😲😂

The 'corner shop' would be two miles away as we had just moved to a brand new estate right on the edge of the city (well still a town then) and the district centre with massive Finr Fare was still to be be built.

Actually we were living on a building site which we used to play on the escape to the fields at the back of our house for hours on end

I'm wearing my favourite Strawberry Mouse Scratch'n'Sniff tshirt
I stop for a minute by the patch of tarmac laid who knows how long ago but still soft and squishy in the sun under my buckled sandal
I'm heading to the sweet shop to buy some Fruit Salads and Rainbow Sherbert.
When I get home I'll watch The Tomorrow People
There are swarms of ladybird, and the man in the sweet shop had a heart attack and everyone said it was the heat and Elton John and Kiki Dee have been number 1 forever.

Doing 'O' levels and revising with my best friend in the Castle grounds,
(probably out of bounds). Both lying on our stomachs and I got the most horrendously burn legs. Made sitting the exams difficult!
Later, at home, we were amazed to see the cracks open in the lawn and the park.

I'm on a beach on the isle of sheppey (or the isle of shitty)
There will be chips for tea, bingo after and a dance at the clubhouse disco.
We'll have cockles on the walk home back to the caravan.

Rinse and repeat every day that summer

@sashh I'd like a tin of tiny licorice pieces

Do you mean tic tacs? I hated them!

Also.

I’m digging on a beach in Cornwall, singing, “oh I do like to be beside the seaside”.

Daddy appears from out of nowhere, frantic with worry, and scoops me up, and attacks me with his obnoxious bristly moustache.

“I’m not lost, you’re lost!” I say indignantly.

Veronicat, you are the only other person I've ever come across who remembers 'watch out watch out there's a Humphrey about'
All those silver milk bottle tops for a pair of plimsolls!

All the local kids are out in the street. My little sister is playing hopscotch with her friends whilst I’m playing kersby with my brothers. When we get too hot, we’ll cool off with some lemon squash and a cider barrel. Then I’ll sit in the road playing jacks and rolling hot tarmac into little balls.

Later, I’ll read my Bunty comic and listen to the football results, eating my tea of sliced ham, boiled eggs and cubes of Cheddar with lettuce and tomatoes from the garden covered in lots of salad cream. Then we’ll watch Basil Brush and the Generation Game.

Feeling very nostalgic now!

I do @ChilliMayo!

I’m planning my 21st Birthday evening at The Hard Rock Cafe which had only been open 5 years . My then BF asked them to play some Peter Frampton for me and they played the entire Frampton Comes Alive! album , dedicated to me :) Happy happy days .

@ChilliMayo My family can't hear the name Humphrey without saying 'watch out, watch out...'!!

I remember finding the Humphrey straws quite sinister!

God those milk bottle tops used to stink however much you rinsed them.
And we collected a lot, as we were a 6 kid household.

@sashh Actually I think they were called imps - do you remember whether that's what they were called?