On this day 30 years ago I was...

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Sunning myself in Stresa, Lago Maggiore ..

Now 'stress' would be a more accurate description...

I was also 4

I was 16, doing a cleaning job for the woman in the Big House up the road. Used to go there on my bike, up a huge hill to get there but freewheeled all the way down going AAAGGGH with the rain belting into my face. The O'level results came out in August, so round about now would be the day I got home from work to find that my parents had gone out, left my exam results, which had come in the post, propped up on the mantelpiece so that I could see them through the window and then locked me out. They got home to find me round the back trying to break a window.

Was 2 months in to my dream job. In Kensington High Street which really was the place to be in 1986. We had a big party every Friday. There would have been loads of people, new colleagues - many of whom have since become very good friends. One of the happiest years of my life.

Was waiting to be admitted to Kings College as seven months pregnant with my first child who had been diagnosed with numerous physical abnormalities. Was in horrendous shock and terrible anguish not imagining what the future would hold, whether the child would survive. However in some ways it was a very very special time, my exdh and I alone in our pain but very much together

I was 16 - so I guess I was getting stressed about my forthcoming O-level results.

I was working in a very busy travel agents in Brighton
Living with my then DP and having a very active social life

Unemployed "because you've been to college, if you were a school leaver we'd put you on an apprenticeship but you are too old now" Oddly, two years earlier I was told I had to go to college to get an apprenticeship so I did.

Twinkle in an eye

sitting next to my very premature baby in an incubator

I was 18 - in early August I think I had just got back from 6 months working abroad and a few weeks solo travelling, and was getting ready to go off to university. I think that was the last time I ever spent more than a month living in my parents' house.

I had DS when I was 30, so he turned 18 this week, and we're still not sure if he's off to uni in the autumn or taking a gap year.

Heading towards my second birthday, probably on holiday with my parents and 5 month old baby sister.

I was waiting for my o'level and CSE results!! Starting to get nervous about college.

Love to all of you - especially those of you facing such tough times back then x

In the throes of the terrible twos. Maybe this was when I was taken to hospital with a pencil rubber stuck up my nose....

Waiting for my o-level results. There were exams before gcses - I'm old....

I as 36 and suffering from severe depression after the death of my father.

Wishing I lived anywhere but where I did with horrible foster carers.

Justice did finally happen but it took a long long time.

Giving a presentation at my company's head office in San Francisco on a two week business trip.

I was 13 and probably had my head stuck in a book :)

Celebrating my ninth birthday.

It was the summer before starting high school and it was all about getting my ears pierced! I'd been asking for them to be done since the age of 5 but my mum kept saying that I'd have to wait until big school - that summer she could put it off no longer!

I think I was in Paris for a week.

I was five and on summer holidays. No memories at all of that summer, though.

In France for the summer with my new boyfriend, young, slim and thinking I was the bee's knees in my 'Chelsea Girl' outfits - he's still around (now my dh) but the figure's long gone

A 5 month old foetus!