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

Mum said not to come back home until tea-time but dont get up to mischief. Queen's Night at the Opera is great, when is the new one coming out? Elton is playing Wembley Stadium. O-levels coming up

I'm six, and spend all afternoon in the paddling pool my mum set up for me. To say thank you, I make her some perfume by pulling all the petals off dads prize roses and mixing them with some of the pool water. Mum then sends me up to the shop with a note to buy dad 10 JPS, and I wait at the top of the road for dad to come home from work, and he hoists me onto the back of his motorbike for a ride home. Once a week he will bring me my Whizzer & Chips comic home as a treat. Happy days

Sherbet Dipper for me. I’ll be a bit slower because I’ve got some pop bottle in a carrier bag hanging off my handlebars, to take back for the deposit.

We have neighbours queueing up our side path with buckets because the water's been turned off but our garden tap is on a different main that the water board don't seem to know about and is still providing lovely fresh ice-cold water. Don't tell anyone!

I'm only 4 so I'm not allowed to the shop on my own just yet, but can I have a lemonade lolly please?

We had one of them @BlackeyedSusan but not in 1976 because we only had a backyard we got one a couple of years later when we moved and had a Garden much better quality than today's paddling pools!

I’m 9 and my sister is5 and we are playing what time is it Mr Fox with just our knickers on. My dad runs a bread van that goes around our council estate every night so we
Might sneak on it tonight and eat his black jacks.

I'm 17. I lost my virginity to a lovely boy recently and am feeling smug. But A levels approach, it's ridiculously hot and my best friend is having some sort of crisis. I'll ignore it all and listen to Hawkwind very loud.

Another request for a cider lolly please as I've just got home from school and my mum is sunbathing in the garden again .... every day this week so far!

I'm accepting a job in a failing secondary school in the summer holidays without even looking round it.What was I thinking ? I hated it but stayed over two years before moving to a lovely primary school.
It's very hot , I ring my mum to tell her from a phone box at the station .

I'm 14 and laying on the sunbed in our garden next to my very pregnant mum who likes to cover us in olive oil from the bathroom cabinet mixed with sarsons vinegar, it make us blondes a lovely shade of walnut, when its cooled down later we will have a glass of dubonnet and lemonade, made by my dad who has changed into his daisy dukes but kept his socks and shoes on., happy days

remember it well i was very ill the drs came and said it wasnt worth moving me to hospital but i pulled through i remember lying in bed dad was sat with me and the radio was playing afternoon delight i think i better stick to baby food thats what they started me back on i was 10 so bit meeh but its what they recommended to start me off so please can you get me a few Heinz jars of baby food please
photo is of me my sister and mum taken that hot summer before i was ill

Can ya grab us a canny bag o Tudor (pickled onion) ta!

Can I have a pack of Parma violets please. I’m off over the barley fields with my mates. We’re off at 8am and will be taking some jam butties and pop for lunch cos we don’t have to be back till it starts to get dark. We’ll be fine though cos I’m in charge as the oldest, I’m 9, and we have the dog with us,

The small pieces of liquorice in a tin were called Imps.

I'll have a Texan Bar please and then I'm going to go and play with my Pippa dolls.

I was 8 and terrified of walking past the “stag beetle bush”

I’m 7. I’ve got a cheap version of a chopper that’s not quite the right colour, and I’ve pulled the bottom of my t-shirt through the neck hole to make a cropped top.

Later my friends dad is going to take us to the swimming pool in his ford cortina estate. The 6 of us will probably travel in the boot.

I might knock on Mrs Smiths door and ask if I can take the baby out for a walk in the pram, to the park and back.

I'm not one yet, so nothing for me thanks.

If you need me, I'll be in a baby bath in the back garden. You'll know it's me, as I'll have a vest tied round my head, as my mum hasn't bought me a sun hat.

I’m 7 and I’ll have some pickled onion flavour Tudor crisps and a 5p mix - I’ll get loads of sweets for that!

Can I have a Dalek death ray lolly?Choc & mint.

NB: Funny Feet lollies were 80s I think.

Lord toffingham ice lolly.
Strawberry aero
Icebreaker chocolate bar

You go. I'm going to stay here and watch the field at the back of the estate burn. There's fire engines and everything!

My brother has just knocked his front teeth out trying to copy Evel Knievel ramp jumps on his chopper.

Me I'm watching eating my salt and shake crisps

Can I please have a quarter of sweet peanuts? Tia.