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[Celestine]

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LOL I'm a child of the seventies so my recall of the 60s is a bit hazy!

I remember Charles and Di's wedding. Me and little bro were on holiday in France on a camp site, there were loads of trestle tables laden with food and booze. Little bro and I hid under a table and snaffled bottles of wine and food down below.
Some time later..........We were found rolling around, drunk as Lords....can't remember much after that.

I have more painful memories of the friend who gave me home brew gin at a party I held at home when mum was away, I was about 16.

I remember drinking lots of the gin, then I remember going upstairs to the loo, after that all I remember is thinking BED. So I crawled into my mums bed and passed out.

My friends downstairs didn't know where I'd gone. They couldn't leave or do anything because I'd vanished, they'd checked the bedrooms but I'd fallen asleep perfectly flat under some blankets and duvets on mums bed.

Apparently at 3am they got really scared so they called the police.

The police evidently have better search techniques than drunk teenagers......

All I remember is coming to, the sound of police radios and a terse copper asking, "are you Kate? How old are you"

Next question: 'who brought the booze', where's your parents etc. Very rude awakening but they didn't charge anyone with anything, in fact they were quite sweet.

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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Spose I'm a child of the 80s, I was born in 1977!
I can remember shoulderpads so big you could sit on them, and people with "pineapples" on their heads. I was quite the little fashion queen with my reversible mickey mouse sweater!
Bros were HUGE and then you had Swingout Sister with the Acne song, Elton John and his Wobbly Gob song and of cause the awesome OMD with the Wibbidywobbidydoo song! (For those of you who can't remember it, they lyrics were Oh a wibbidywobidydoo and I dont know what to do and im sailing on the 7 seas so blue!)
We had the never ending story, rainbow and the horrors of Pob! A little gobbing puppet who mum took one look at and banned.

On a minus point, living so near Kings X station we had regular bomb threats, full bomb surivial training at school, loonies going up to protest at South Africa House (within a 15min walk of my house), and the footie hooligans coming in for Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea and West Ham! Dad was terrified my brother was gonna ask to go to a match, but it was his beloved little girl who asked him!

[Sapphire]

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Oh blimey, I'm a 'late' fifties baby, so the sixties are also a bit hazy, my memories are

The Beatles and wondering what all the fuss was about

Bill Hailey on the telly doing Rock around the Clock

Peyton Place - anyone remember that ?

Listen with mother on the radio

Peter Osgood scoring many times for Chelsea, I've supported them ever since

Going to the Ilford Palais to watch my mum in her dancing competitions - she was Essex Ballroom Champion for years.

Watching my dad ride his beloved motorbikes, he raced at all the best tracks and took part in the Isle of Man TT races

Oh how about this, going with my dad to watch the footie at Romford (I come from Romford), I remember twin brothers playing for Romford and guess what years later I'm married to one of them.

Who remembers Party 7's ?

Going to my first grown up party (without my parents) and smoking dodgy ciggies, I was absolutely stoned

Oh and making lamps out of Mateus Rose bottles

[Celestine]

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Blue Peter...Shep through to Goldie, Janet Ellis and Simon Groom. Grange Hill, my beloved BMX bike that I lived on, making dens with real camp fires, an old tin kettle that me and my mate Juliette would make smoky tea in with heaps of sugar.
Dangermouse but that was on ITV and we were only allowed BBC.
My mum developing an irrational dislike of the word 'horny' when it appeared in one of my teen mags and banning me from buying said rag again.
Getting badly lost in the maize field every summer, but we kept going back.
Gymkhanas on a mad Welsh Mountain pony, hacked all the way there cos we couldn't afford a box, hacking home with rosettes on his bridle.
Driving from dads home in Dollar Scotland to Salen in the Western Isles. Me as co-pilot to dad, my job: mix up his whisky and lemonades from two bottles in the glove box!
Cutting the lawn with scissors during the summer the lawnmower broke.
Worzel Gummidge, Dynasty........ the 80s!!

[labman]

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Peter Osgood scoring many times for Chelsea, I've supported them ever since

OMG - I used to employ him in my couple of years when I thought teaching was the wrong job for me and ran sports coaching holidays for kids. Nice bloke too!

[Inca]

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We lived right by the old Reading football ground,,I wasn't allowed there but my brother sneaked me in,,sadly forgot the match would be on telly cos it was Chelsea,and there in all my 3ft glory being hauled back over a wall was yours truly Listening to Thin Lizzy and Rod Stewart at the festival,hanging out our back bedroom window.
Going to meet Mary Peters on Val meets the VIPS,,being on telly,,Mother having a meltdown when it was broadcast cos she sent me looking gorgeous,new dress,ribbons in my hair (which was down to me bum!) and bright white socks,and i had a punch up in a lift with a boy who pulled my hair and I looked like I'd been dragged thru a hedge