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?

Discovering the magic of Smash Hits and pop music - I can still remember the Now 7 (posh paper shopping bag with cord handle) and Now 8 (silvery metallic liquid) covers. Sledgehammer! Walk This Way! Breakout! Let's Go All the Way!

I was 6 (so in P2). One song that sticks out from '86 is "Manic Monday" as I remember that being sung in school by older girls.

Also remember taking part in Sport Aid in '86 (I ran the 2 miles), older brothers did the 4 and 6, although the one who did the 4 cheated by taking a short cut through a field with his friend. Didn't know then that the event was the follow up to Live Aid (and in turn Band Aid).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Aid

Just started a new school and looking forward to my 11th birthday which was going to be spent shopping in Bath and stopping off at a Little Chef on the way home. Living the dream.

Working and living in London, selling my flat so I could buy a house in Kent. All my social life was based around church so Rivals didn't get a look in.

I was being born. I wish I remembered the 80s or could have been in my teens/20s for them because they do sound fun. I think everything went downhill post 2000 with the rise of social media

I had just turned 3 so was probably starting nursery school, which I loved. Loving life wearing a pinafore dress to hide my transistor hearing aids, that I wore before I got the behind ear ones. I didn't care one bit about having to wear them but my mum hated them so dressed me in pinafore dresses and dungarees to hide them! 😂

Living a mad crazy scary life as a kind of gangsters moll! 20 years old, naive, stupid, mixed up in some real dodgy dealings. It has however meant that from age 24 Ive truly valued my lovely, calm, productive, respectable life!

I'm in Australia so I was doing my HSC (leaving exams) & I turned 18

Having my first baby. Eek he'll be 39 in less than 6 months!

I was 20, just bought my first home with my BF, I worked for Radio Rentals and later that year for check-in at Gatwick

Collecting care bear stickers

This is my 18 year old DD now….it’s unbearable for us.

I had just started high school and had lots of pre and post school sports activities going on
We walked home from sports at 8pm getting chips on the way home and nobody had to collect us in a 4x4 and try to feed us carrot sticks

Having the time of my life. Best year ever!

I was in my first year of a hairdressing apprenticeship, it was all shampoos and sets, blue rinses, perms and highlights.
I was 16 and out clubbing every weekend, just needed to memorise a fake date of birth to make me 18 if asked by a bouncer, but if one of my former teachers was on the door then it was no problem (he’d even buy me a drink if he saw me when he was in the club).

Had a 21 year old boyfriend who my parents hated, which made me even more keen on him.

I was 6 so probably dancing a lot to cheesy pop songs and going to school

In utero - 3 months old depending on when in 1986 😄

I was born on 1986 so crying, pooping and sleeping I’d guess!

I was inside my mum.

I was 14 and full of hormones. I was dating a boy of 16 and my mum did not approve at all so it was too much hard work and fizzled out.
I had a part time job as a waitress which i loved and got good tips for.
Was I happy? not really; attitude, hormones and high school. Wouldn't want it again!

3rd/4th year at secondary school. Not very happy, but some positives: in a new form with my three best friends and discovering classic literature (I was not a cool teenager).

1986 I was at 3 different schools.

Army kid, and in the Feb, we moved back to the UK after 2 years in Hong Kong.

We lived in Caterham in Surrey. Knew it would be a short posting, then 2 weeks in to my 4th year/ year 10, moved to the Midlands, CAD Kineton.

I was 14 , 15 in the November.

By this stage, I was sick of being an army kid, messed up my education

Ditto

I was a teacher in SE London. My life was nothing like the world of Jilly Cooper I might as well have been on a different planet. I can't stand her writing and won't be watching Rivals.

I was young and living in a big city. I had no idea what to do with my life so was temping and not earning much money.

What I did have was spent on wine and fags but that was fine as I wasn't really interested in food so consequently was a size 8.

I had just learned to drive and had a scratty old red Ford Escort which kept breaking down, was always full of Ribena containers and empty fag packets.

I had a terrible boyfriend but not enough confidence to ditch him. There was no internet, no mobile phones and you could smoke anywhere, including restaurants, cinemas and planes.