Margaret- my cousin and I were going to marry Prince Andrew (me) and Edward (her) We used to have mock wedding ceremonies on the garden and then pretend to have babies who were always called Alexandra.
All I can say now is euuuuwwwww
I also had the airing cupboard in my bedroom. I wasn't allowed posters on my walls, but I could stick stuff on the airing cupboard. My proudest 70s possession was a Donny Osmond rosette in green and yellow, which was then replaced by Les McKeown posters taken from a magazine which I believed the height of sophistication called Supersonic.
I progressed from Teddy Bear comic, to Bunty and Debbie, to Patches, to Jackie (obvs) My first teen magazine though was called Melanie and my next door neighbour gave it me, my first make up Mary Quant - a box full of it- my Mum said if I was going to wear makeup I'd wear "nice" stuff.
Radio 2 definitely every morning (and still is now) and I once wrote a description at school saying I thought God would look like Terry Wogan. (something to do with disembodied voices) I later shared a flat with one of his daughter's friends and she said she'd tell him. I always hoped she had, his death really saddened me as it felt like my childhood had finally gone.
All synthetic nighties were from Brentford nylons indeed- and all mums would shriek "don't sit too close to the gas fire or you'll go up in flames" Horror stories (sadly true) of children with nighties melted onto their legs were commonplace (as indeed, if public safety announcements were to be believed) were people being run over because they left their umbrella on the other side of the road, drowned because they fell through ice, and glubbled down into the murky depths of quicksand.
The Avon lady who had a little blue holdall with samples. I always wanted to order everything and my Mum would never let me. I now have a collection culled from Ebay of all the (very very good actually) Avon perfumes from that period (rigorously in utterly bonkers and random shaped bottles "Oh, here's some scent inside a lampshade!" and lots of Christmas soap sets.
This thread needs to be moved to Classics.