Any oldies out there?

[Joe_the_Lion]

I really can not remember the summer of 1976. All my childhood summers seemed to be long hot ones with no specifically mega hot ones.

Was 1976 really that memorable?

[jake-the-peg]

2003 was hotter - unless of course you happened, like me to have been camping in Cornwall :c(

All of Europe under glorious sunshine and there we were stuck under a cloud in a field in the SW - saying "I'm sure it'll move down here tomorrow!"

1976 was good though but as I recall it was followed by a totally miserable 1977

[Kim A]

I remember it being hot, the pavements melted in Southampton. I remember going to Brighton for the day and seeing a swarm of ladybirds covering the side of one of the houses along the seafront, and getting bitten by ladybirds later in the day. it was also the year of drinking on the grass outside the Master Builder's at Buckler's Hard in the New Forest and getting stung by a horsefly which left me with a mark on my back that looked so much like a big fat hickey that my Mum wouldn't speak to me and my boyfriend for a week as she thought we'd been up to no good. Oh, and when the weather finally broke, at the end of the summer hols, and it bucketed down I was shopping in Shirley High Street dressed in a pair of pink dungarees and some brand new espadrilles. i got stained pink from the dye from the dungarees and my lovely new straw espadrilles fell to bits before I got home. Ah...sweet 16.....

[lam143]

Yes it was the hottest summer ever.There was a draought all over the country with water bans. It was also the queens silver jubilee and the country seemed to be in a really good mood. I was 14 and the school holidays seemed to last forever

[smudge]

I have a few photo's tucked away from the very hot summer of '76.

They're of our two daughters sharing a big paddling pool with their friends under a willow tree in our back garden. It was just before the announcement of the water ban - so they made the most of it!

[Cetti]

......and I had mumps through that summer, courtesy of my young son!!

[rabbitygirl]

Late post after the rush but been away. Yes most definitely there was a plague (if you can apply that to ladybirds) in the summer of 76. We were moving (again - I really dont do it that much) and in those days you tended to practically strip the house and take everything with you. Cant remember if I was taking the nets or just taking them down for a wash but between the top wire and the window was a continuous line of ladybirds - some alive but many dead - due to the heat I expect. Plants were covered in ladybirds eating aphids. This was down south.