What were you doing in 1993?

[NW3Lady]

It was the year I started secondary school. I used to watch Neighbours and Home & Away religiously everyday on arriving home just like everyone else I knew, plus Top of the Pops on Thursdays. I sometimes watched Saved by the Bell on a Sunday morning although more because it was the in thing to watch than because I genuinely enjoyed it. On a Saturday night I might watch Beadle’s About or we’d rent a video from Blockbuster. I loved reading The Babysitters Club, Point Horror and Sweet Valley High and occasionally I’d get a copy of Smash Hits magazine. For Xmas I got a CD player and the Now 26 album to play on it.

How about you?

Still quite cozy in my mum’s ovary waiting for that lucky month that it was my turn to grow into a real human 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️😂😂

Started uni, drank too much

At university and it was all sex, drugs and rave. A marvellous year.

Doing my A levels, learning to drive. Working hard and partying harder!

I was 10. I would be spending my afternoons/evenings riding my bike around the village calling on various friends along the way until we had a big enough group of us to bother going to the park next to the Scout Hut where we would hang about on the play equipment which I'm sure would be classed as far too dangerous now especially given it was all on concrete so any falls were particularly painful. We also sometimes used the phone box to make prank calls to any 0800 numbers we could remember from the TV adverts.

I was pregnant with my third (and final) child. She was born in August and I remember it was a very warm summer!

I also had my second homebirth which was everything I wanted it to be.

DS was born at the end of 1992 so I was very busy with baby and not much else

Starting a professional training course.

I was 3 and enjoying being an only child while it lasted (my tornado of a brother came along in 1996) 😅

I was at university.

I started Junior school that year. My mum started to work and I begrudged her for not being there to pick me up from school every day like she had for my older sister. I went to a child minders house. We coloured and watched TV. I tripped on their driveway once, bled everywhere and had stitches that summer, too.

Used to LOVE saved by the bell!

Same same - I’m a year above you!

Graduating Uni. Following my now husband to Canada for a 2 month holiday and starting a PGCE course (back in the UK). Now husband was based in Canada for 18 months.

I had my first baby in the September. She is an amazing Mummy now.

We also sometimes used the phone box to make prank calls to any 0800 numbers we could remember from the TV adverts.

I remember doing that too later in the 90s 😂

I was just completing my A levels as a mature student. I did very well, went on to do an HND and then to complete my degree.

I had my children in 1990, 1993, 1995 and 1998, lets just say I can remember very little of the 1990's. I would not change a thing.

I was 28 and had just been offered a promotion by my company to go and work overseas as an expat in a country that was going through a huge change.

It was an interesting time.

Pregnant with my eldest!

I was a baby

Oh this is brilliant. I’d forgotten all about the thrill of public telephone boxes, 0800 numbers and how you could renew the credit on phone cards by painting over them with nail varnish.

081-811-8181 is etched into my brain forever I think. Whoever came up with that was a genius.

I was 13, convinced I was going to marry Mark Owen when I grew up.

Top of the Pops was on Thursdays! I remembered this a while ago then doubted myself. I was 8, probably getting ready for bed as my parents let me stay up much later than my 8 year old! I would have been worrying about something, likely that the next day would be Friday so my dad would have a drink after work and then my parents would spend all weekend arguing. Or possibly worrying about sports day.

Getting divorced, and ploughing every penny I earned into just about keeping my head above water. But only just. I kept the house and had to remortgage to buy exH out. I ate a lot of jacket potatoes and beans on toast in those days.