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".

North and South East and West, the quest to save the land of pellamar goes by....look bravely through the Dragons Eye!!
Or...
Why don't you build yourself a word, a word with an 'ing' to say it's happening!
Or...
Geordie Racer, Geordie Racer...FLY!!!!

Snap! I knew JFK for 12 weeks too

Beware the Judderman my dear when the moon is fat.

Getting a mobile phone that could store 8 SMS messages while in sixth form.

A few friends had pagers.

In all of my classes throughout school most pupils were called:
Julie, Susan, Sharon, Tracy, Andrew, John, Michael and Mark..
Most also had embarrassing middle names in honour of a grandparent - now the height of fashion again 🙂

I was born in the year that the England football team won the World Cup.

I remember my earliest visits to the cinema including Watership down, the Rescuers, Abba the movie.
Whereas my first pop concert was Nik Kershaw.

Wumpee Chews, Bazookas, HitPops, Stardust, sugar cigarettes, Caramac

I’m still slightly bitter that I never got a Baby-G watch. I did get to hang with the cool girls briefly though because they needed someone who could do a good round-off to complete the band.

But when I was born, though. I was buying them on the way home from school 😋

I know 80s music because of Vice City, and classic rock because of Guitar Hero.

My parents bought me a battery powered Dalek for when I came out of hospital after having my tonsils out ( but no batteries). School milk in third of a pint bottles thawed on the radiators (yuck!). Walked to school alone, in the dark the year they trialed staying on Summer Time all winter and it didn't get light until after we got to school. I remember the Abervan disaster.

All my toys and clothes were knitted by my dm because Dad was in strike and there was no money.

Without a doubt we are the same age

England had won the World Cup days before I was born 😊

My friends and I enjoyed buying sweets made to look like cigarettes and tobacco from our primary school tuck shop. We then pretended to smoke them.

I’m too young to remember the moon landings, but I’m old enough to remember the death of Elvis Presley.

Great Train Robbery when I was less than week old 😊

My best friend's middle name was Louise, but Ann/e was more prevalent. Most of my female classmates were called Rachel, Tracey, Debbie or Sarah.

I walked to school by myself after my first day, and as soon as I was allowed to cross the road to get to the newsagent's, I could get my mum's cigarettes for her, no questions asked.

Are you 62?

The Spencer Davis Group, The Walker Brothers, Manfred Mann and Dusty Springfield all has number one hit records.

Granny Takes a Trip opened on the Kings road in Chelsea.

Born Free, Alfie and Carry on Screaming! we're shown in cinemas.

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley go on trial at Chester Crown Court, charged with murdering two children and a teenager.

Scottish inventor James Goodfellow obtains a patent for an automated teller machine using a plastic card and PIN.

Barclays introduces the Barclaycard, the first British credit card.

A berfan disaster in South Wales, 144 (including 116 children) are killed by a collapsing coal spoil tip.

I never got the belt at school but others did. Regularly had to duck from the flying wooden blackboard rubber as it was launched at whoever was talking.

We were given a bottle of milk daily at school which we HAD to drink despite it sitting next to the radiator for hours 🤮!

I desperately wanted a Mr Frosty for Christmas but never got one.

ABBA were the bright new band on the block and I remember sitting with my parents LP cover learning the lyrics with my friend!

We played out all day every day and didn't die despite not having phones or parents hovering over us!

We were taught very clearly and very forcefully that if we didn't use condoms once we became sexually active we would almost certainly catch HIV, develop AIDS and die.

I got a cabbage patch kid for my Christmas when I was 5.

Ok boomer.

Comics had characters that were brave soldiers, French resistance agents (as well as ballet students of extraordinary talent and The Four Marys. The war was still a subject of conversation for years and we played a game of Nazis and Tommies (no-one wanted to play a Nazi so I was told I had to be one - a bit confused as I had an idea it was a sort of tomato but I was very young). Most families did not yet have a car and not much money. New clothes were a big luxury but most children wore hand me downs so not alone. I may have been the last child whose mother made her wear a liberty bodice to school in the winter (until I made a stand against it on humiliation grounds, surprisingly backed up by my older siblings). Lots of family friends emigrated to Canada and Australia and we nearly had to too but my father's employers relented and raised his wages 3 weeks before our ship was sailing, so we could stay in England after all (but after we had sold our furniture and toys, alas). Cinema - Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Gigi (surprisingly as a 6-year-old), Pathe newsreels showing Princess Margaret's wedding and honeymoon trip, various African nations celebrating their independence, Elvis films, Hayley Mills films...). Parents listening to the radio intensely and worriedly as, it became apparent all the grown ups thought world war 3 about to start any minute (Bay of Pigs). Great sadness all round when we got home from swimming and heard on the radio that JFK had just been shot.