Tell me what decade you were born in without telling me...

[WingedHermes]

Dummy dipped in liquid malt every time I spat it out.
Given liquid Phenegan to make me sleep every night from 0-5 years.
As a toddler and small child, given huge bowls of currents/sultanas to eat multiple times a day as it was "healthy".

Same time as me with the Ladybird, only it's my earliest clear memory aged 3.

The death penalty in Britain was suspended for 5 years
Homosexuality was decriminalised for over 21
I remember smog in London
No central heating
Black and White tellys you rented
Enoch Powell
but the music and fashion was fantastic!!

"They think it's all over! It is now!"

Haha, yes! Louise or Elizabeth (amongst all the similar aged women I know anyway)

"Fearless young orphans, protecting Earth's entire galaxy. Always five, acting as one. Dedicated! Inseparable! Invincible!"

I remember buying things with a ha'penny but my sibling who was born just a couple of years after me doesn't.

I knew JFK for 12weeks 😉

My mum didn't buy me a Mr Frosty. Tight as a gnats chuff

Some wumman snatched our school milk

gummy bears were a halfpenny each but since there were no longer any ha’pennies with which to buy them, they always came in couples

I was sexually harassed as a teen by several male teachers and other teachers found it a laugh

I bought Ridley Scott’s Gladiator on VHS

The other Gladiators (Wolf, Jet et al) were the soundtrack to us getting our Wonder Bras and hair-mascara on for a big night out.

When I was a little child, there was always a report about the Vietnam war on the news, and then when I was slightly older, there started to be Vietnamese refugees in my classes at school.

(I remember the news reports, although I was quite little.)

My middle name is Louise. And my cousin's. And one of my best friends...

My middle name is Louise.

My sixth form common room spent a day in mourning because Robbie left Take That.

In the car, I stood up in the front passenger seat and Mother would throw her arm out to brace me when she brought the car to a stop.

Vesta curry, crispy pancakes and and tinned toast toppers were the latest ‘in things’ for food. Meat and two veg were the norm and I never ate rice or pasta as a child. There were 3 channels on the tv and I’m pretty sure they switched off at 10 or 11 each night leaving the famous picture of that girl against a stripy background as the test card. I remember the excitement when smoky bacon crisps came out and we watched the White Horses and Belle and Sebastian programmes on Saturday morning.

I played with clackers which my gran brought us back from Spain

I had my hair cut in a bob ( like all the other girls I knew) till I was about 5. Neither my brother nor I were allowed to wear trousers to primary school , although we didn’t wear uniform- little boys were only allowed to wear shorts , which were very short.
If we went abroad, we took travellers cheques or changed sterling into foreign currency at the airport.
We walked to and from school without adults from about 5 .

Raggydolls
RAINBOW
star bright

Grendel yes this ..
In the car, I stood up in the front passenger seat and Mother would throw her arm out to brace me when she brought the car to a stop.
my mum went to a maternity hospital for 10 days when she had my little sister, which was the norm, and we were fed by the neighbours!

Perms, leather/ bomber jackets

HMS Coventry

Mullets

Orgreave

Tears for Fears

Hillsborough

Tubes/hedgehog/Tudor/piglets crisps

Greenham Common

We were all christened Bernadette..marian year!!

I would buy my dad's tobacco for him until the age of 9 when the law changed and they stopped selling it to me
(One ounce of mellow Virginia ready rubbed)

Thing with that middle name is you could be a 70s, 80s or 90s child.

My polly pockets and their openable house could actually be put in my pockets.

A lot of my friends at school were called Amy, Rebecca, Rachel and Olivia

I had free tuition at University and a grant which was actually possible to live on. Ditto for professional qualification course.

We had Vietnamese "boat children" at our middle school. I wonder if it was the same one?

Anyway my (now other) clue: my brother and I were th first children in our county to get the measles jab.

You were born in the late fifties, like me