Being loaded up in the boot of an estate car - four small kids, including a toddler - like puppies. We loved it, too. Can you imagine, now? Someone would call the police on their mobiles within two minutes.
Free milk at school was minging as I never drank milk at all - was linked to eczema in my case so was never made to at home, but suddenly at school it was compulsory. They said I had to unless I could bring a note in to school to say otherwise, but never mentioned it had to be from my parents, and at 5 that wasn't obvious to me. So I handed a random visitor to the house (male friend of my mother's) a pink felt tip and got them to write "PerfectStorm does not drink milk" on the paper, folded it up and handed it to the teacher. Who astonishingly accepted this as sufficient. I never had to drink the rancid stuff again. I don't think that would be enough for the school office at DS' school, somehow.
I loved space dust, and all that edible jewellery. I remember the summers in the late 70s as really hot, and the winters very snowy - no idea if that's true. I also remember seeing The Empire Strikes Back when it first came out at Leicester Square because the grownups all wanted to go, and having no idea what it was about.
Mr Men Yoghurts. Can't remember the taste, but remember the pots with absolute clarity. Also remember Kickers shoes, Osh Kosh boiler suits (older brothers, everything I wore was theirs first) horrible pre-lycra tights that itched and sagged, and nylon static dresses for parties. I do think kids' clothes are light years more comfortable - I recently unearthed some old baby clothes and they were woollen. Itchy, scratchy and horrible. Soft cotton, lycra and fleeces mean baby clothes now are lovely against the skin. Cannot fathom how people put newborns in tight elastic and wool, like that.
I was trying to explain to DS that there were no mobile phones, no internet, no iPods or iPads, no computers even when I was a child. TV only had 3 channels and closed down half the day and all night, and we didn't have videos in any homes I knew of, either. He couldn't begin to get his head around it. Eventually asked if we had cars back then! Was reassured to hear that yes, we did, and planes and spaceships, too. But it made me realise what a long way away that world was.