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?

I was 14, chasing boys, getting dressed up and sneaking into pubs generally getting up to mischief.

I was in 6th form. I wore long skirts, tie dye and doc martens, rimmel black cherry lipstick, winged eyeliner and dewberry from the Body Shop. If I saved my £1 a day school dinner money I could get into the Thursday night indie disco where ID was never required and get 2 pints and a Malibu and coke without breaking into my wages from my Saturday job, I spent that on clothes, makeup and pink hair dye.
Good times!

Getting used to the change from pfb to pfb plus baby.

Wait, I’m confused now! Didn’t they have the last episode of Neighbours?

Aww sorry you didn’t enjoy it more. Casualty used managed to really creep me out whenever I caught it back then. So many scary/depressing/just nasty adult themes.

Was a nice summer in between Y12 and Y13 at sixth form college. Working at a pub, spending time with friends and boyfriend, watching a lot of TV and a lot of sleeping in. Great times but I don't miss it.

Mmmm Saturday night TV. Sometimes my grandma would babysit and she’d want to watch Dame Edna.

I was at secondary school. There was a group of 4 of us who hung around together, we bunked off lots and would go to the park and talk about our plans for life and smoke Benson & Hedges.
We would go to town on Saturdays and look around Top shop and the Body shop.
I was secretly in love with one of my friend’s older brother’s, who I ended up hooking up with a few years later at the pub.

I was a Holiday Rep living the dream in The Canaries from Jan to March then Cyprus from April to October. Day after day of sunshine, swam in a pool or the sea every day, worked hard but played hard too. It was a great year. I then went to Goa for 6 months in November 93. Met some great people, got to visit Israel, Egypt and Petra in Jordan.

My annus horribilis. At death's door in the early part of the year with IBD; huge operation; didn't recover in time to go back to school but took my A-Levels anyway. Did ok, then had to have a year out before university for another huge operation before Christmas and another the following spring.

19, about to start Uni and went to Greece that summer and on a Greek course and really enjoyed myself. Got my heart broken too. Should´ve told him to go to hell when I was thinking it.

I was backpacking South East Asia and going to full moon parties. It was a great year!

DS was born towards the end of 1992 so looking after a new baby whilst on maternity leave. DH preparing to be a SAHD when I returned to work. Lovely year except the bloody awful summer we had weather-wise.

I had just finished my Finals at Uni.

I was on the way back to my home town for a long lovely summer and Job hunting.

I was 6.y parents were in the middle of getting divorced. I witnessed my grandmothers have a fist fight in our living room.

I was 15-16 just starting to go out to gigs without a parent, I remember which ones - Stereo MCs at the Astoria, The Breeders at The Forum and Depeche Mode at Wembley that year. All excellent! Went to many more gigs in the 5 years following that.

I was doing my GCSEs, then starting 6th form. Saturday job at WH Smith.

I will never forget when Jez said he had sent them a turd 🤣

I left college in the summer of 1993. There was a recession, so jobs were really hard to find at that time. I continued working my weekend job, until I found a full-time job in the February 1994. I celebrated my 19th birthday at the end of 1993, and met my first serious boyfriend!!

Seventeen and hugely in love, literally spent entire evenings snogging, either my my boyfriend's mum's Volvo or round at his house. His parents used to go to a lot of dinner parties, his sister went out and we used to snogging in the drawing room which was a particularly lovely room with a very high vaulted ceiling. Eventually lost my virginity to him in the August, which was a bit of a let down and then whole thing soured badly as I lost interest and fell in love with someone else who looked like Keaunu Reeves. It was a short lived thing. I just looked them up, boyfriend one does lots of sport and is in good shape but not my type, (also seems quite religious!) and the Keanu Reeves lookalike now looks more like Jeff Bezos than Keanu - so sad.

In 93 we moved to york. 3 kids and no where to live.
Found a rental stayed 6 months moved to a great area of York. Settled and it was the best move ever..still here but now in a village outside York. All kids married, now with 5 grandkids..

Learning to drive, going to college and having my part time job!

I was 14 and being horribly bullied at school. That was my life then, essentially.

A lot of ecstasy

Started my clinical psychology course.