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".

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Ed the duck and the broom cupboard

Wackaday

Bermuda shorts

Beneden duffle bags

Jelly shoes

The locomotion

@hermenmumster I still have my Ed the duck! His hair is a bit of a paler green but he still has his sweater and his squeaker still works. He's very precious

As a child my mum dressed me in little tartan pleated skirts with a vest attached, or scratchy polo neck jumpers in shades of brown or orange.

I watched the Flumps, Mr Ben, Chorlton and the Wheelies and we only had three channels on the TV. Breakfast TV was introduced as a new thing when I was about 8.

Margaret Thatcher was kicked out when I was in sixth form.

Mum used to play vinyl records on the stereo unit.Us kids loved to dance round the room with her to the tune:

"She wears red feathers and a hula hula skirt
She wears red feathers and a hula hula skir

She lives on just cokey-nuts and fish from the sea
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes
And love in her heart for me
I work in a London bank, respectable position..."

We used to whoop like apache Indians and war dance round the room after my Mum It was years before I knew we should have been Hawaiians

Every one had a Cindy Doll, Polly in my pocket and Puppy in my pocket.

Cartoon Network & MTV was the best entertainment.

We had a Comador and Atari. We had the Cartridge gaming console called Lynx.

Didn't have the internet until I was 16. We used to spend our time speaking to "Oliver Bot" and thought it was the best thing ever.

Dawsons Creek, Saved by the bell & Heart Break High was the Jam.

I watched the moon landing on a wooden TV with spindly legs and a dial from my towelling bouncy chair

I was vaccinated against smallpox when I was a year old

I vaguely remember Decimalisation Day

Elvis died when I was in primary school

I remember his assassination

Flares and disco baby!

Bus fare to school was a penny farthing

@OnlyTheCrumbliestFlakiestChocolate bang on. 1960.

Your user name was maybe the 70's I remember the ad' so well. Along with the Sunsilk Shampoo girl.

@WingedHermes brilliant thread.

The Reflex - fle fle fle fle flex

Pound Puppies
Bertha
Spot The Dog
Stoppit and Tidyup
Jim'll Fix It and Rolf Harris drawing and introducing cartoons 😨
Many countries changed their names
Margaret Thatcher resigned, John Major, Things Will Only Get Better
One computer at my primary school, when I left secondary those in the know were googling (others were Asking Jeeves)
Gladiators, Blind Date, Noel's House Party
Oasis vs Blur
Spice Girls
Tammy Girl
Impulse
Princess Diana
Alcopops

In my form group of 32 at secondary school, 5 of the pupils were called Susan.

'Save water, bath with a friend'!

I had a tamogothchi

Definitely not the same shool then 😅

The charity who organised them coming to the UK was based in our town and had a home there so we had a few refugees in school from other countries too. It was, as you say, all over the news and TV news filmed at our school quite a lot.

My parents drove down the road where the great train robbery was happening, on the way to the maternity unit.

Later the police asked my dm if she'd noticed anything unusual 😂

Very seasonal and I feel this gives me away almost to the year but I though ‘Hosannah in Exelcis” was “Rosanna in a shellsuit“

JRR Tolkien published the third book of the Lord of the Rings.
The first advert was shown on British TV, for Gibbs toothpaste.
Winston Churchill was still Prime Minister during some of this decade.

Pinky and perky were the first record I bought.

As a young teenager -- shops closed at midday on Saturdays and being bored shitless on Sundays when everything closed.
Listening to Pick of the Pops with Alan Freeman (greetings, pop-pickers!) on the BBC Light Programme.
Pirate radio was fab! Met some of the DJs at roadshow type events on rare afternoon out from boarding school .
Wearing absurdly short mini-skirts and being complimented on my legs by strangers -men- in the street. And being absurdly flattered. 😤

The Beatles
B&W TV only

One of my earliest baby photos when I was a couple of days old, my mum sat holding me, dad standing proudly next to her, both stood with a lit fag in their hands