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

[barbedwired]

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

I'm being born.

'Waaaah.'

(what a magical thread)

@OvenGlovesWillTearUsApart- I’ve been married to Paul for 22 years now!

Not the same Paul though .

I’m 5 abs I love the ladybirds. I’m collecting ladybirds from my grandparents’ garden in a little cardboard box, to freeze them for the winter.

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I've not long been born so I'll just sleep in my pram which DM has left outside the post office whilst she's cashing her family allowance book.

I'm rollerskating to the sweet shop for a packet of opal fruits and a sherbet dib dab. My new National Health glasses (blue) are hurting behind my ears, but I'm so happy to be wearing my sundress with the orange hexagons on - the school have said it's too hot for school uniform. Yay!

I’m in the womb and my mothers ankles are swollen to tremendous proportions in the heat. I’m two weeks overdue.

43 years on she may have almost forgiven me...

I’m 8 and I’m watching my much naughtier big sister peeling a strip of tarmac from where they’ve mended the road. You can peel the strips up and they are soft. Mum keeps getting annoyed with us as we get tarmac stuck to our shoes.
Later we will have very small bath, a cold one. All of us kids have to get in together and we won’t have another for a week. Soon the stand pipe will go up in the middle of the road so no baths then.
My sisters have peeling sunburn.
There are big cracks in our garden soil and I’m a bit freaked out by them.
I’ve got the money for Mum’s ciggies and a note and I can pretend to be just like her with a box of sweet cigarettes.

I'm on holiday in Pembrokeshire and we've just discovered a lovely beach called Whitesands. I'm 8 and so skinny my bathing costume is hanging off me. Love the sea and jump in the waves with my dad, but my little brother is terrified of it. Later we play with this new thing (for us) called a Frisbee. When we get home we walk with Mum to the village shop. I love Funny Feet or Midnight Mint, my brother always has Mini Milks.

Have you decorated your bike spokes with bread bag ties ?

@rustybear did you and your boyfriend work at children's summer holiday camps ?

Humohreys about

If anyone says ‘watch out’ We always say ‘Humphrey's about!’

But I had LONG since forgotten why!

Shockers

Yaaaay! ... oh.

I was 3 so don't recall much but my Dad's just got back from work and he's taken me and the dog to the village grocery shop where he's bought me a haunted house ice lolly. Then we'll take the dog for a walk across the field and through the wood while I eat my lolly and Mum gets dinner ready at home.

I'm buying 2lb of carrots and some polo mints and I'm walking 3miles along the canal to the local riding stables to help look after the horses.
Didn't have a bike!

I’ve got thick books of green shield stamps and coop blue stamps in case they take them.
Gonna buy some cotton ring reinforcers first my school project.
Have to stop by my friends house in case they’re home to come with me.
Might go swimming in the river after - mum and dad won’t know where I am but that’s ok just need to be back when it gets dark.

I also found that whole Humphrey thing disturbing and didn’t get it at all..100 Humphries soft as silk, searching about for Unigate milk..?Nightmare scenario

Already mentioned, but Lord Toffingham lollies were my absolute favourite. And I got sunburn all the time. It was just one of those things back then, no one thought it was especially dangerous.

Ladybirds everywhere too, that was so strange. But you just weirdly accepted things unquestionably as a kid in the 70s. Like singing along to the Wurzels. I had no idea it was full of double entendres or even what a double entendre was 🤣

I'm 10 and I'm wearing turquoise nylon hot pants with a bib, white stitching and white buttons. From Marks and Spencer 😀

I'm in the garden, lying under a tent like structure made from the clothes maid and a blanket ( to provide shade) reading A Famous Five book.
Occasionally going to the shop to get some kali and liquorice.

Lord Toffinghams! Swooon. All my friends give me blank looks when I mention these. I was beginning to think they were a figment of those hot summers

@lostsoulsunited - no, we never did. Do we look like people you knew who did? I worked in a hotel in the summer, and my bf (now DH) picked peas!

DM is watching the Wimbledon and we are drinking mint tea

My best friend Julie and i have been saving up for ages to go clothes shopping. We'll catch the bus into town and go to the market. I might buy a beige Simon shirt. We're going to a disco in the village hall tonight, and my parents are running the bar. We are underage but they don't mind us having one or two drinks. No more though, because Julie had s bit too much at the last disco and was sick on the back seat of my dad's car. We blamed it on the vol au vents, but I'm not sure he believed us.

I'm still a bit burnt from sun bathing on our flat roof, so am having to put calamine lotion on. I was going to try to cover the burbs with done of that new fake tan, but Marion in my class at school accidentally put dome on her face instead of her Anne French stuff and she ended up extremely orange so I'll just wear long sleeves instead

*Cover the burns with some of that fake tan (FFS)

I'm two and a half and my brother is six months and ill all the time. I spend a lot of time by myself, digging in the the garden, reading my books. At the end of the summer we move across the country, nearer the seaside, so then we get trips to the beach too, except the beach is heaving with people and ladybirds. I'm not allowed sweets. Or ice lollies. (Because then I'll have to have fillings like mummy) And I never get sun burnt because we have factor 20 uvistat and always have t-shirts and hats on in the sun. Mostly our garden is in shade though because it's north facing, and my brother lies in his silver cross pram with the hood up crying.
When the weather breaks, we'll both get mumps and be confined to home for weeks- lucky Mummy!

Can't come with you, my dads out on the heath fighting fires I need to stay in with mum and help look after the baby.