Is it 1974

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Or just the school holidays?

Yes this but I love the idea of teachers letting off steam by unlocking their inner Reform voting adolescents

Yes I can’t even imagine losing the FA Cup final to a lesser team and being screwed out of the Cup Winners Cup by a dodgy ref in the same month and still being able to rouse his team to a record breaking league win the following season.

Billy Bremner must have had the heart of a lion

Well, I just got in from work, where I'm senior to several men. No one was smoking on the bus. I walked in to find my DP cooking dinner. I put the TV on and haven't yet seen a sit com featuring a lovable racist or an old man chasing a scantily clad teenager up the street. My friend sent me a picture of himself and his husband on their honeymoon and there aren't any Pippa Dee flowery flares in my wardrobe. So I'm thinking, maybe, no?

My sister was class of ‘69 — that was one remarkable year.
We live in California and Haight-Ashbury was all over the news.
Viet Nam was still a sore subject.
And that July, Apollo 11 got us to the moon.
And that following August was Charles Manson and his foul followers - when we lost our innocence.
Yessiree, @eggplant16— those were the days.

If it was roughly now (but then) I'd be 5 and on holiday in a caravan site in St Andrews. Both sets of grandparents came too, and my aunt and uncle, as well as my mum's friend and her daughter who was my age I chose a card with a chick on it for my dad's 32nd birthday, and we bought a kite with a Dracula face on it which refused to fly.

Mum and auntie went swimming in the sea naked in the dark after getting drunk. I was horrified. We children had freedom to wander and were all over the place. We went into a man's (stranger!) caravan and had some sweets 😱

BEST. HOLIDAY. EVER.

You lived in California, I lived in Carlisle. Still, I smelt hope.

I had finished A levels and had a retail job in the city I was going to attend university. Everything to go for!

But did the party have cheesey pineapples? It’s not the 70s without those!

No, I find it quite inspiring. You can’t change the past, but you can learn from your mistakes and therefore change the future you would have had if you’d continued on the same path.

I was 6. Just had my worst ever year at primary school because of selective mutism brought on by sensory overload from primitive hearing aids (it’s like having the volume turned up to max on a crackly radio). It’s now the school holidays and I can talk again. Life is about to get a whole lot better. 😁

That would be lovely.

Is this a different Neighbours, cos the Aussie, Ramsey Street one didn't start till 1985?

Is that the song Barbados by Typically Tropical? I loved that song and eventually got there 20 odd years later.

Yes, the sound track to that holiday 😁

And now I'm going to be singing it all day.

Well if it is then I won't be going in a car next month, because that didn't end well in August of 1974 (see username for outcome).

When Boyzone did it, I wonder how many of us said "Ooh, I remember that one first time around..." 😂

LOL - fascinating example of the fallibility of memory! I went back to the same Uni to do a PG degree in 84, so that's where the neighbours memory slots in (same common room though and I don't think the chairs had been cleaned in the intervening years!)

July 1974? I was 1 month old and my mum was 29 and young and carefree and beautiful.

Wouldn't a time machine be great to go back to carefree times of endless summers and beach holidays. No computers and internet, only 3 tv channels but there was usually something on worth watching (unlike now) and not having to pay extra to watch sport. Kids programmes like Andy Pandy and Bill and Ben and a bit earlier, Do you like Muffin the Mule - yes, but they can't touch you for it.

I think there was less cynicism about.It woudl have been O level year for me. The Romanovs, tectonic plates and plagal cadences loomed large.

Could have been the Sullivans? That was like an early Neighbours (Aussie) but set in in the 40s. It started airing in the UK in 1976 and was always on at lunchtime.

And it had loads of the same actors in it. Decent actors were obviously thin on the ground in Australia in those days.

Not just in those days

Ehh ???