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Is it 1974

179 replies

8legs · 25/07/2024 16:17

Or just the school holidays?

OP posts:
MrsMoastyToasty · 25/07/2024 17:43

Are Abba in the top 10? If so, it's 1974.

cheezncrackers · 25/07/2024 17:49

If so, I'm only a few months old Grin

KatiesMumWoof · 25/07/2024 17:50

MoonWoman69 · 25/07/2024 17:32

God I wish it was... It'd give me a chance to do everything so differently... I was only 5 then, can't believe it's 50 years ago!

Me too!

CustardySergeant · 25/07/2024 17:54

I don't understand what you're getting at, OP. Can you come back and explain?

AzureAnt · 25/07/2024 17:54

I wish. I was 13. Lived in a popular UK holiday resort. Had a job,, money in my pocket. If I could go back I would correct all the stupid mistakes I made

MissyB1 · 25/07/2024 17:55

If it's the summer of 1974 then I'm about to break my arm jumping off my bike! I will also one week later slit my head open after tripping up whilst running to the ice cream van. Not my best ever summer 😂

Willmafrockfit · 25/07/2024 17:56

i was 8 nearly 9.
innocent times
power cuts/ games by candlelight

Sethera · 25/07/2024 17:57

If it is, I need my bottle and a nappy change.

OuchyEars · 25/07/2024 17:57

Really awful shoes....

FrenchandSaunders · 25/07/2024 17:58

I was 6, happy times.

BellaBobbins · 25/07/2024 18:00

Was just about turning 1. But no, it's 2024 OP.

willWillSmithsmith · 25/07/2024 18:01

8legs · 25/07/2024 16:17

Or just the school holidays?

Well judging by your post it must be the school holidays.

Topseyt123 · 25/07/2024 18:02

I don't get what you are on about. You'll have to explain properly.

I turned 8 in the summer of 1974.

ABBA also won the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton with Waterloo in that year.

TwattyMcFuckFace · 25/07/2024 18:05

willWillSmithsmith · 25/07/2024 18:01

Well judging by your post it must be the school holidays.

That what I was thinking.

holju · 25/07/2024 18:06

Is the delorean broken again?

Channellingsophistication · 25/07/2024 18:07

I was 5 and had red flares my mum made me a band in my hair and not a care in the world. Happy days

ramblingfool · 25/07/2024 18:09

I can't remember 1974 because of................ the weed, man.

willWillSmithsmith · 25/07/2024 18:12

Maybe OP has been watching Life on Mars?

PerkyMintDeer · 25/07/2024 18:13

My parents haven't met yet!!! They're still married to other people!!!

PerkyMintDeer · 25/07/2024 18:15

ramblingfool · 25/07/2024 18:09

I can't remember 1974 because of................ the weed, man.

Edited

This is how I feel about 2014! It's all a haze of weed, wine and lust.

OP...can we make it 2014 instead please? I want my figure, my unsuitable ex and my artsy bohemian lifestyle back.

JessyCarr · 25/07/2024 18:17

Yes, it’s 1974. My mum is wafting around in some sort of kaftan, and she and my Dad are soon heading out to a cocktail party. Meanwhile I am planning my 6th birthday party and campaigning for a very complicated-looking themed chocolate cake featured in this month’s women’s magazine. Baking is not really Mum’s forte, but to her credit she does make the cake and it’s a triumph. Never bettered, in fact!

sleekcat · 25/07/2024 18:19

I was one and only have photos to tell me I was there. Wouldn't mind going back for a day to get a better experience!

Growlybear83 · 25/07/2024 18:20

I loved 1974. I was 16 and left school, had the summer off in Spain, and then started work in September. I met my husband the following year. I wouldn't change a thing but I'd love to re-live it all again.

Sunnydiary · 25/07/2024 18:20

What a lovely year that was!

Scoobyblue · 25/07/2024 18:21

I was 6 and probably having a great time in the garden making mud pies in the old cooker which was discarded into the corner of the garden when the new one was fitted the previous year.