what were you really ahead of your time in doing?

[codswallop]

mine is for my Dad
In Yorkshire in 1965 My dad was there at my sisters birth, helost interest byt he time he go to me
Also My Mum cooked chilli con carne WAY before it was "In",maybe in 1977, pity she forgeot to soak t he beans...

My mum used to make curries when I was about 5 1981 which I think was unusual

I went to the Hacienda in Manchester before it was the place to be (in fact I drank my first K cider there)

My mum used to make curries too .. but then as Dad was born and brought up in Southern India I suppose she had a prompt

My Nana was well before her time in not accepting her role as 'skivvy' for everyone else in the household. She and Grandad born in early 1920's. Grandad was very hands on and did lots round the house unlike most men at that time and also played a very major role in bringing up his children.

In fact, my Dad was the same in that he was kind of a 'new man' in the early 70's when I was born - arguing with my mother that it was his turn to take me out in the pram cos she'd had me all day while he was at uni!

i was the first child in the UK to wear disposable nappies. i was born in US in 1969, and when we flew over to the UK customs pored over the pampers in puzzlement

... then i was the first child in US to have a Maclaren buggy. parents took it one of those first edition stripy jobs that looked like deckchairs back to NY and were always being stopped and asked about its cunning umbrella mechanism

we still had risotto made with longgrain rice, streaky bacon and frozen peas though

seems really unlikely about the nappies though... family exaggeration i expect

i was the first girl to be thrown out of our brownie troup

i stuck chewing gum on brown owl's chair

she never like me

I was the first person to confound the medical community aged 8/9.....The GP told mum I had mumps, go home come back in two weeks, went back in two weeks, with chin stuck to chest at a right angle, where the muscle had spasm'd and got stuck,(it's been getting worse since quack told us to go away, so bad for last week hadn't eaten, just soup thru straw, but nice mum trusted quack) got rushed straight to casualty! Had all manner of tests and a nice overnight stay. Docs agreed it wasn't life threatening, but didn't know what was wrong and I became a twice weekly outpatient....eventually 3 mths later and one of those horrible endoscope things being stuck up my nose, they discovered a virus in my lymph nodes, and treated it...then began the nice physio 6mths on......just look over there whilst we whack your neck back to the otherside when its not moved for 6 mths......My mum said I cried that hard/screamed that loud, she vowed never to take me back, but Dad made her!
The lesson is NEVER BELIEVE YOUR GP. (apologies for the caps, but for that I have to shout)

Best weight loss I've ever had tho! sure that lack of eating for all that time, really screwed my metabolism once I could eat again....

I was the first person in my secondary school to wear dm boots. Everyone laughed at them, a year later it was an essential part of the school uniform

I was one of the first batch of babies to receive the measles vaccine

My Mil must haev been one of the first people to ahva an epidural!
it was October 1966 in toronto

Bakedpotato - very likely true! Shortly after my sister was born in 1973 my dad heard that there was a trial for disposables going on somewhere in the UK and he managed to scrounge a supply, even though we were noweher near the trial area. I think he knew a man who knew a man who... Anyway, my sister was probably the first baby in London to wear disposables!

Ooooo, that probably makes me the first big sister in London to ever change a disposable !

i was slightly shead of my time realising its three o'clock......................................................................

Twiglet - I'm impressed, I was also the first girl to be thrown out of our brownie troup (hadn't even got my uniform before being kicked out. But, I can't remember what it was for.

I was the last girl in our school to receive the cane - does that count.

Other than that, I know it's not me, but my gran was the first woman in our county to fly an aeroplane.

Bakedpotato - are you me? I was born in US in 1968 and when we returned to the UK in 1970 my mum brought loads of disposables with her. She used to be very, very proud of the fact I never wore old-fashioned nappies. God know what she would make of the washables I use now!

I was the first girl in my class to hear "I don't like Mondays", I remember reporting that it was quite different to the Rats' previous stuff.

Iw as the fisrt in our class to have a cd player