1976 stands out in my memory.
Boyfriend dumped me
Met new boyfriend who became future husband
Left school with 3 o levels and several CSEs, no job, 3 million unemployed
Fantastic summer weather, with a drought, unemployed so spent it playing golf, sitting in the park, sitting outside pubs as too hot
Great suntan (it wasn't bad for you back then)
Drought ended while we were sitting outside a pub
Got first job in the autumn
Married at 18
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16-05-2012, 8:59 PM #11BarnzzzGuest
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16-05-2012, 10:02 PM #12Colin RowledgeGuest
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16-05-2012, 10:30 PM #13lawsueGuest
What a wonderful time in my life.
I spent most of it on the beach.
Boys, "Beatles", boys, "Beach Boys", boys, hot chips with vinegar (can't have that anymore), boys, sunburn, boys, overprotective mother(so I thought at the time, but it paid off in the end) boys, those gorgeous life savers watching over us.
Got dumped more than once. Dumped a few myself. Church on Sunday (reluctantly, but it paid off in the end)
Yep, it was great. Completely normal and completely happy. Or am I wearing rose coloured glasses, and forgotten the rotten bits. No, not as far as I'm concerned.I do remember the rotten bits, but they just served to teach me lessons along the way.
It was great and carefree, but we were all responsible and respectful back then.
Sue
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16-05-2012, 10:35 PM #14Lizzy9Guest
Fun, carefree, innocence, dance halls, coffee bars, 60's fashion, safer roads, safer street life, Police on the beat, buses arriving on time, ditto trains, Oh, the more I think about it the more I could go on!
record booths ~ anyone else remember record booths? My friends and I used to go to the local music store every Saturday where we'd choose three top ten hits to listen to in a booth; then it was off to a coffee bar before going home to get ready for Saturday night at the local Palais.
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16-05-2012, 10:51 PM #15
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16-05-2012, 11:15 PM #16MutleyGuest
Wimpy Bars, do you remember the big round tomato of ketchup?
We used to get a matchstick and wrap the silver paper from a fag packet around the top, it had to have a flat top in order to place a dollop of ketchup on it. Then we would stick the matchstick into the round tomato and squeeze very hard.
The flying matchstick hit the ceiling and stuck! Whichever local Wimpy had the most matchsticks hanging from the ceiling was the 'place' to be while we listened to Cliff, Elvis and Roy and.....
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
of Sunday afternoons in the back row of the local flicks
but of that, I shan't be telling
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16-05-2012, 11:31 PM #17NicolinaGuest
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17-05-2012, 12:11 AM #18Lizzy9Guest
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17-05-2012, 12:21 AM #19Lizzy9Guest
Mutley, kids at my school used to stick matches to the ceiling in the maths classroom, I can't remember what the sticking agent was .......... maybe ink. My classmates were mostly well behaved but did enjoy a laugh, our maths master was very weak and sometimes merry after a liquid lunch, the kids wanted to learn but teacher was incapable of teaching, the matchsticks were their way of protesting. Some horrid little so and so's used to flick ink on the back of the maths teacher's jacket, not sure he deserved that! He was pleasant enough, just an incompetent teacher, thankfully my class only had him for one year.
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17-05-2012, 12:46 AM #20
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Oh, all right......................
Being selected for the school choir and singing in Salford Cathedral and the Free Trade Hall (Manchester)
Learning to play an electric guitar and being in a youth club band
Playing ten-pin bowling and winning a tournament
Having a glass of beer in railway station bars while under the legal age
Learning to ice skate, but never mastering skating backwards
Hows that for starters?
David
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