It's 1986!!

[NorthernLiner]

TOTALLY inspired by Dame Jilly Cooper's 'Rivals' finally gracing our screens today😄

So what were you up to in 1986?

I was four, coming five so assume reception? Aww same age as my twins!!!

Just finishing my youth training scheme, enjoying the music 🎶 😀

Being born.

O-levels and pretending I was older in the pub.

Learning to drive with A levels in 87

Doing fuck all for my A levels, painting and having fun. (Last 4 weeks of 1986: finally thinking 'Shit, I'd better actually do some work for my A Levels.')

Oh, and I was jumping out of planes too.

Same here @PickAChew great times!

Secondary school. I was pretty miserable for the last half of 1986.

4th year at senior school. I'd taped my friends Jane Fonda workout record and had a brief spell of trying to feel the burn.

Pregnant with my horrible ex. He made it a really miserable time.

Having my second baby.

Best year ever for me! Was so much fun

Final year in primary school - happy days!
Great teacher, great friends - think that was my happiest year of school

Second year of senior school. I was struggling with my MH (nothing changes!) and things were really tough. Every school day I was full of anxiety and panic. I went on a school ski trip but had to come home as I felt so anxious. I had good friends so was lucky in that respect.

Walking past the combined newsagent/bookshop on the corner of my street, being inexplicably attracted and simultaneously repelled by embossed book covers featuring unlikely bums in white casing being felt by random hands.

WHAT IS THIS AND DO I REALLY WANT TO KNOW?

Second year of my degree. Life was good.

Working part time in a shop 2 years after leaving school with a few CSE’s. Living with an abusive boyfriend and wondering how the fuck to get away.

Luckily I did get out, changed jobs and eventually got out of retail - not that there’s anything wrong with working in retail.

Loving my Madonna phase.

19/20 (in July). I was working in my first full time job as a Nursing Assistant in an NHS unit for young people with learning disabilities. I loved that job! The unit shut in 1990 and the residents moved into community placements and I then trained as a mental health nurse in one of the big asylums, which again closed as I qualified.

I loved growing up in the 80s. There was a lot wrong-Thatcher, miners strikes, high 8nterest rates, homophobia etc but as a young person I was fortunate enough not to be affected. Loved the music, the films and the fashion.

I was 2, so playing, napping, probably throwing the odd tantrum…

Me too. DD born in 1987. Husband and I got on fine then. Downhill aftwr that and divorce in 1993.

Preparing to be conceived.

Probably reading Riders (and Lace)

Moving from my first job to my second to be near my fiancé and then marrying him, buying first house.
Still got the job and the husband