according to some academics...
...must have been - i was born! ;D
Sure was for me. Got married in August. ;D What a long, hot and fabulous summer we had that year. Sigh :D
One of my daughters was born in August - I remember the heatwave and the ladybirds (swarms of them covered everything in sight).
apparently i used to eat the ladybirds cos they were crawling all over me :D
I just remember the HEAT! ;D Oh and trying to sit mock exams in it :(
I was born in 76 too :-)
and me
and me....
no, actually I'm lying was 1967 a good year - its got the same numbers in it after all... or am I just clutching at straws.....
good job, money in bank, flat an car and good social life, didn't know was born! All distant memory now - eek! What went wrong :( :( :( :o
The 1st year of my RETIREMENT - V good!! = Tim
........1967 I agree was a better year to be born in........ ;)
...although I remember 1976 very well....all those telly programmes about saving water....news bulletins about empty reservoirs......
....playing in the garden on long hot summer afternoons/evenings, running through the water from the hose (prior to the hosepipe bans... ::))......
.....water-pistol fights that went on all afternoon...... :)
.....aaahhh....memories.....(insert wistful smiley here).....
me was 5 and have absolutely no memory of it what so ever! ;D Mind, I have trouble remembering what I did yesterday! :o
wont say how old i was....ok 14......very serious and studious.....didn't have a clue......snogging at school discos was the height of sophisticated behaviour
and then it all went downhill.....
....the decade that fashion forgot, married three years in '76, hated the heat, mortgage, no money, awful wine (mainly Blue Nun and Mateus Rose was chic!) and a cheese and pineapple hedgehog was the height of sophisticated party buffet food...but Starky and Hutch (esp Starksy .. mmm) and The Carpenters!
But I found this which seems to say it so much better that I could:
You know you are a ‘70s child’ if:
- You wore bellbottoms, turtlenecks and tank-tops.
- You had that Fisher-Price doctor's kit with a stethoscope that actually worked. After training with these tools you became an expert at the game of Operation.
- You thought Starsky and Hutch were the height of fashion.
- You had wellies for rainy days. If you were lucky, your mum bought you the green ones with the frog's eyes on the end.
- You had a toy Womble and kept your pocket money in a Wombles' money box.
- You had either a 'bowl cut' or a 'pixie' (not to mention the 'Dorothy Hamill') because your mum was sick of plaiting your hair. How traumatic when people thought you were a boy.
- You had a fluffy Bagpuss pyjama case that you took everywhere with you.
You begged Father Christmas for the electronic game ... Simon.
- You preferred Sindy to Barbie.
- You loved bouncing around on your orange Space Hopper.
- You still have a place in your heart for Noel Edmonds thanks to The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop.
- If your parents wouldn't let you have a Ronald MacDonald or a Mr Wimpy birthday party, you weren't having one.
- You truly believed that a pair of glasses made Superman unrecognisable as Clark Kent.
- You loved your multi-coloured legwarmers.
- Roger Moore is the definitive James Bond.
- You memorised every song in the Annie movie and know at least one person who immediately went out and got the Annie haircut. Every now and then 'It's A Hard Knock Life' will pop into your brain and you can't stop singing it all day.
- You had Star Wars action figures, too.
- You desperately wanted a lava lamp.
- You wished you were part of the Von Trapp family.
- You loved The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe so much, you crawled into wardrobes and actually believed for a few seconds that you were on your way to Narnia.
- You have a pathological fear of sharks. Just the theme tune 'der-dum, der-dum, der-dum' is enough to stop you getting in the water.
- Penelope Pitstop was the epitome of girlpower.
- You used to tape-record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape recorder up to the speaker.
- You thought the Atari 2600 was the ultimate in sophisticated computer technology.
- You thought the Bay City Rollers were naff. Yes, you actually used the word 'naff'.
- Shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.
- You worshipped Zippy, George and Bungle
- You collected Smurfs and think the Smurf Song is a travesty.
- You wanted to be one of Pan's People.
:D
The only hat I can remember were those awful 'fun fur' helmet-type things that did up under the chin - we must have looked totally stupid! And Snoods - were they 70s?
:o AC x
sad to say.....my hero/heartthrob was.....
David Essex.....closely followed by David Bowie.......so there was some hope even then...
and I did wear flares....
Snooda are tubes (usually knitted) which you could either wear as a polo neck type effect or you could pull back over your head as a hat - here's one (you'll need to scroll down):
http://www.orkneyangora.co.uk/headwear.html
AC x
It was a long hot summer and if you peeps had lotties then then you would have had dryed up allotments. I remember the grass being brown with the shortage of rain. I also remember my lunch breaks being spent outside basking in the sun, loverly......
Me and hubby bought our first house in '76. Exciting it was too and we scrimbed and scraped to get the furniture bought, we got a bit at a time. Hubby borrowed money from his Mother to put up a shed for his very small garden and yes he put up a 'huge' shed. He has not changed, we always have big sheds, need planning permission sometimes.
Good days .......
Most definitely was the best year ever - it was the first year in which both hubby and I were on this planet! (we are of course both aliens!)
I am still a child of the 70s. I am at this very moment wearing flares, as usual (although I don't do tank tops). I always wanted some of those frog wellies, but mum always got me normal ones. :'( I had the bowl cut, although mum paid good money for it. :o
I still cry when I hear the theme tune to Bagpuss as I just love it so much. (especially the bit: "he was just an old, saggy cloth cat, coming a little apart at the seams, but Emily loved him" - even typing that now, I'm feeling all emotional!) Sindy was so much prettier than Barbie. Yep - had a space hopper. Always wanted a chopper, but had an ordinary bike.
Noel Edmonds, though, is the spawn of satan, as is Ronald McDonald. shiver. But I'm not scared of sharks as I didn't watch Jaws til I was 18 as mum and dad wanted to protect me from nightmares! (I laughed most of my way through the film!)
ah nostalgia!
OH! So THAT'S what you meant, legless? = Tim
(http://www.hpphoto.com/servlet/LinkPhoto?GUID=612e7bea-2e42-16d2-53bb-716e3b007eed&size=lg)
Ah 1976-memories of finals and lazing around in the heat aferwards.
Oh and shoulder length hair of course.
Stephan.
Te he, 70's child thing v good...remember well, bouncing on space hopper, then bouncing off space hopper onto concrete. Was 6 and innocent and collected all the blinkin blonkin ladybirds in a big jam jar and watched in a fascinated stylee while they killed each other...
Hmm, not a nice child...
I could never get through to the multi coloured swap shop to swop my brother for a girls world without the hair extension bit chopped off...shame really.
that's the one Tim!
I missed most of the 70's Im afraid! I was 3 years old in 1976 and in deepest darkest Africa...
....but me Da used to sing 'Tie a yellow ribbon...' to me, Ozzy!!
awwww thanks for bringing back that memory ;D
My dad's favourite to sing to me as a kid was 'puff the magic dragon'. I think he was blissfully aware of what that was really about. ::)
Can't remember '76 at all due to smoking foreign substances ::) :P
Hi Oz, red leb, black leb, rocky, resin, leaf (or blow as it's known as now) LSD, and that's just Monday ;D .
Tried the lot, even some of the heavy stuff and it hasn't had an effect on me :P :P :P 8). I'm still as crazy as a fox.
Cor, you all have lots of 70's memories......made me rack my brains...I had a chopper :o Aqui, bright purple, well cool! Had a yellow space hopper, purple flares and I remember mum and dads purple nylon bedroom carpet! Dads song to me was Hole in my Shoe by Traffic, the first vinyl single I ever owned, and he bought it for me. Aaahhh....now you got me all thinking bout my old dad..... :-[
Hey Oz try and get to the meet on the 24th we could sit in the corner and just melt into the scenery ;D ;D 8)
The Headingley test was pretty good as well-even though Tony never did make them grovel.
Stephan.
Hi everyone,i was 13 years old and holland became for the second time second place on the worldcup soccer in argentina.I was born in a year with a very very cold winter.
Sorry to bore you all - but - as it's an Allotment Site, would anyone like to talk about the subject in question? 1976 - Allotment chat. Tough or what?
Lots of chat about allotment stuff Tubs...
Check out the other areas on this site, its the best allotment site I've ever been in.
Its a bit like actually being on an allotment...chatting to folks about everything from plants to grandkids...
Its called having social skills....
well said andi.... and tubs check what thread u go into cos it states non allotment stuff in shed
I second that flower and Andi. What a happy chappy, not , :-\
Yes more inane smilies.
>:( :P >:( :P
what is this peep all about he keeps moving around trying to upset peeps on this great site shove off and find another site where there MIGHT be someone interested in what you have to say >:(.
Hi Oz this is the 2nd time i have posted to you site is slow !!!.
was you having apop at me for teling that miserable git off ?? ???.i am not sure....... he gets on my nerves life is to short to keep moaning. Besides this is the best site ever don`t you think......... ;D
Cheers RRRRRRRRooooooossssssseeeeebbbbbbbuuuuuudddddd. ;D
Quite frankly, I blame his mother for letting him fall out of his pram head first !! ::) ;D