Memories (Child of our time cntd.)!

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Aloha/ Pam T, we did the sliced up Mars bar too!! Watching old Gene Kelly/ Doris Day/ Cary Grant(swoon) movies!

Also, first crush definitely Starskey, posters from Jackie all over my (purple) walls!

John Noakes and Shep my all time favourite presenters.

Had a ssquirmel too! Sadly squirmed its way into a cup of tea! Was never the same after that!!!

If you've no idea what I'm on about, check out the last few days on the Child of our time thread!

Im also from Tucker/Trisha era, Tucker was most defintely my fav, its not the same now.

I too remember Pogles wood, Woodentops etc. Does anyone remember Mr. Piper, a rather rotund chap in a costume who,I think, introduced cartoons etc?? (This is a very hazy memory).

Playing elastic at school.

Sweets: tip-tops; pink shrimps; white mice; bar six; crisps with the little blue bag of salt inside; flying saucers; caramac; sweet cigarettes; sherbet fountains.

Dandelion & Burdock; cream soda.

Toys: tiny tears; sindy; microdot; risk; dizzy bugs; skeelers (strange roller skates).

When I was older I was allowed to watch programmes such as Shoestring; Moody & Pegg. When ill from school I remember watching Rainbow, Crown Court and General Hospital.

Tank tops; hot pants; ponchos; feather-cut haircuts!..........

For Banana Split fans:
1 banana, 2 banana, 3 banana, 4
4 bananas make a bunch and so do many more.
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Comin' to bring you the banana split show

CHORUS Tra la la, la la la la, Tra la la, la la la la

4 banana, 3 banana, 2 banana, 1
All bananas playin' in the bright warm sun.
Flippin' like a pancake, popping like a cork
Fleege, Bingo, Drooper an' Snork

CHORUS

2 banana, 4 banana, 1 banana, 3
Swingin' like a bunch of monkeys hangin free'
Hey there, everybody, won't you come along
How much like banana splits everyone can be.

CHORUS

Does anyone remember grape or cherry bubblegum, but especially Anglo bubblegum which was used to blow the biggest bubbles which inevitably burst allover your face (pink and wrapped in a yellow wrapper)?

WOW! I'm impressed Scuba - I'll never forget the tune - but to remember all the words - now that is good!

Can you still get Caramac? I remember it as food of the gods. I so wanted to be on Junior Showtime, even worked up a routine with a friend but then got too shy to audition. Still basking in the star status granted by appearing in Twinkle (dressed as a rabbit) though. Anyone remember Moonie From the Moon- he was black and white spotted and could turn himself into anything (as long as it had black and white spots)

Oh, and Witchy-Poo, from the live action segment in the Banana Splits starring Jack Wild, used to haunt my recurring nightmares. re: Pogles Wood, Elderberry Wi-i-i-ne!

I had a Caramac the other day, and had a craving for them during one of my pregnancies, used to buy a bulk lot up every time I saw some.

singing ringing tree, anyone?

Fantastic nostalgic website www.tv.cream.org
You can download lots of old theme tunes and read about old sweets and drinks and stuff

Just come back from a weekend away and picked up this thread again. I loved Grange Hill and even tried to watch it when I started working aged 20 (how sad is that). Tucker was my heart throb and I also used to fancy Damon on Brookside and was devastated when he was stabbed. I haven't seen Simon O'Brien (is that right) for a few years, I wonder what he's doing now?

Did anyone wear gypsy skirts in the 70's with lace petticoats showing underneath or ra-ra skirts in the early 80's? I had a red one with white edging and white spots.

PamT - around '76 a few of us favoured tweed skirts with lace petticoats, and waistcoats. I think the look was inspired by the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall'. As I remember I had a yellow rara skirt and an aqua one!

Now, to diversify a bit, were any of you punk rockers and if so, how wholeheartedly did you embrace the fashion/lifestyle?

I once went out in nothing but a black bin liner (+ bovver boots I think) as part of the punk thing. And I had an enormous, very (deliberately) holey shocking pink long jumper that went down to my knees, worn with incredibly tight, taken-in drainpipe black cords.

I also used to wear a suspender belt outside my jeans (to hold my legwarmers up, mmm) teamed with high black cowboy boots, layers of black eyeliner, frizzy dyed blonde hair with inches of roots and a fringed leather jacket. But that was part of a biker girl phase aged 16... My mum would have gone mad if she had known (it all got wiped off/changed before I went home).

I had a ra-ra skirt in the 80s. The 70s was my Mum's choice of clothes because I was too young to have a say - so it was all brown dungarees, tartan trousers, horrendous knitted items etc.

I had a ra-ra dress in 1981, it was blue with big gold polka dots on it, I used to tie my hair up in a big bow and try and look like Clare Grogan from Altered images. I also had a gold ruffle front shirt and a pair of burgundy velour knickerbockers for that all important new romantic look. I used to make loads of clothes out of sheets and decorate them with potato prints - mm, stylish. Rimmel silver glitter eyeshadow and those gloopy roll-on lip glosses (I can still taste the mint flavour now). Boots 17 Twilight Teaser lippy for the bus home was practically school uniform. We all thought Almay was the pinnacle of make-up and that Miss Selfridge was the last word in fashion.

The first single I ever bought was Wuthering Heights (I was 11). I loved music and had a fine collection of flexidiscs!

Bozza, not only do you live near me, you must be around my age (35 at the moment) and have so many childhood similarities. Maybe its a northern thing!

The first single I ever bought (or got my mum to buy) was Mouldy Old Dough by Captain Pigeon (?). I actually bought Toyah's Its a Mystery for myself when I was a little older and my first LPs (what are they?) were Blondie's Parallel Lines and Bat out of Hell by Meatloaf and I still love both now.

Yippee something i remember the lovely rara skirts I had loads which my mum used to make, my fave was a black + white polka dot one. Did anyone have any of those horrendous puffball skirts???

I'm here again, this is so much fun! What about the baggy, one strap dungarees like Dexy's Midnight Runners (come on Eileen!) - who had those?

Thanks Bayleaf also know the words to the songs by the Monkeys. 'Here we come walling down the street, getting funniest looks from everyone we meet. Hey hey we're the monkeys....... I think Jack Wilde was also in Puff the Magic Dragon (and I also rememebr the lyrics from that too!). I never watched Brookside but a friend who followed the programme told me that Damian (in real life) opened a bike shop in Liverpool. Also loved The Professionals and can anyone tell me is sasparilla is the same as dandelion and burdock? Had a caramac recently - yuk!

Had a puff and a rara - trying to clear out some junk the other night in my dad's house and found ny rara dress white with pink and green edging, how did I fit into that!

Sasparilla was aniseed flavoured wasn't it?

What about when you started going to parties at around 15 and dared each other to buy cider in the local co-op. If you were really brave you would get Strongbow rather than Woodpecker! If only I could turn back time! Life was so uncomplicated then.

Was a snake bite cider and ?? Also I remember being desperate to taste babycham and pony ('Pony the little drink with a kick'.

I couldn't work out how to put those little faces faces on the message and now ones appeared (someone please tell me how did do that?)