Born before 1980

[cameo]

This isn't really a question but.......
Check this out,
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_ id=23705
I think it makes a very valid point.
What do you think? (look, there is a question after all!)

[warpig3]

4get, knew I wouldn't sleep tonight until I got the answer so here it is.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals-and-Nat ure/Question1762.html

[4getmenot]

I have looked it up before :-)

[B00]

I distinctly remember that looooooooooong summer of '76, I played out all day every day with my friends, i'm sure we looked like gypsies by the ens of the summer as we only ever seemed to go inside for something to eat. Our mum's didn't seem to know exactly where we were at the time either, we were just "outside- somewhere"...lol

[warpig3]

Ahhhhhhhhhh.............the summer of 76', I was eight then, what a summer, water shortages so no baths yeah, just a rub all over with a flannel while your mother held you down 'cos you couldn't wait to get out!

[Haggisdj]

Summer of '76 was the first time I went on holiday with my mates. We hired a chalet in Yarmouth abd had a great time. At the end of the week we packed our stuff and moved onto the beach for a week because it was soooo hot. We showered, etc., in the local caravan park... was just the BEST time.

[stewey]

And after galumhping amongst the woods, stomping through the freshly cut fields of hay, hunkering down next to a secluded pond with a stick, string, and piece of bread for bait.....after all this we'd wend our way home with a handful of bluebells for Mum

[cameo]

Summer of 76. I do remember playing out all day. This is back when most people didn't have inflatable swimming pools. If we had another summer like that my kids wouldn't cope without a fan in every room and a big pool in the garden!!

76 also has sad memories for me as our pet dalmation, Sheba, died. She couldn't cope with the heat.

But I do remember plenty of ice creams particularly the ones in a square cone with a big square slab of yellow 'Cornish' vanilla ice cream wrapped in paper.

[Joe_the_Lion]

May I just add that being a child of the 70's the most hi-tech gadget I had was a digital watch that when you pressed a button it illuminated!!!!

Also, my friends and I used to chase swans (all in good spirits) Nobody ever had their arms broken by the wings. Infact, I do not believe ANYBODY in the whole hisytory of having lovely swans in their local ponds has ever had a limb broken by them.

Finally, we did not have a microwave oven, the local sweetshop man sold single cigarettes in a jar and we had "The Pop Man" who came around in a flat bed truck and sold Corona fizzy pop with a returnable bottle. They were full of "E" numbers and the limeade glowed in the dark, but what happy memories!!!!

PS Even in London we had a "village" type bobby who we were all literally terrified of. Totally respected him and said hello, but never, and I mean never, not even from afar, would we give him any lip!!!

[cazzz1975]

I remember going to the offy with my empty corona bottles, the off license used to be attached to the pub back then.

I remember picking blackberries with my friends (not cleaned!) using my spit and finger to clean my shoes!!

Having chips cooked in fat (not olive oil) chips from the chippy being wrapped in newspaper, the pop man!, being cheeky to the ice cream man by asking for broken cornets to eat!!

travelling quite far from home and scrumping apples with the local kids, having a scrap in the street (whilst cheering "scrap!!, Scrap!!" ahhhhh blisss

[Joe_the_Lion]

cazzzzzzz, what about "batter bits" on top of your chips. Basically just fried fat. But were the kids tubby??? As said, no!

[Joe_the_Lion]

Q) How do you kill a thread?

A) Move it away from B+S.

[cameo]

That's what I was thinking Joe!

[annie0000]

After reading all that, I can smell summer!
No sun cream either - we were all brown as berries and spent the whole summer out in our bare feet or plastic sandles. Disappearing for the whole day with a bottle of squash and a packet of custard creams - or drinking water straight out the ground from an undergroud spring and eating crab apples. Sliding down grass slopes on bits of cardboard. Making a skateboard out of an old skate and a thick book. Never mind a helmet, our bike had no brakes. When my older brother got a car it had bench seats in front and back and would take all 9 of us plus the odd friend or cousin out for trips in it - not a seat belt in sight? My mum worked part time, but we never ever had a childminder when we were on holiday - even when we were little - we weren't in anyway, we were up in the woods looking for flashers! Ahhh the memories......

[tiggertan]

I've gone all nostalgic... Can remember my Garfield kite getting stuck in a tree and many ginnie nettle stings! Ahhhhhhhhhhh................