Can you remember????

**LiesaAnna** · 16-11-2005, 01:09

i was going to say Chelsea girl!!! i almost lived in there when i worked down in worthing in 1978, only a little one, but hey i was earning my own money!!

**Ray&Sarah** · 16-11-2005, 02:44

I loved little house on the Prairie too, was always going to call a daughter "Laura" after Laura Ingles. Had two boys thouugh and didn't think they would appreciate it.

**DiannaUK** · 16-11-2005, 03:38

I remember the days when a portable record player was the size of a family suitcase.

And the flower power fashions when we used to walk around with cow bells around our necks (no wise cracks please!).

And the agonising decision you had to make at the sweetshop between spending your whole 6pence (old money) pocket money on a Mars bar or a bag of mixed sweets.

And the days of having to hold your handbag behind you when going up the escalators because you were wearing stockings and suspenders instead of tights (which were not on common sale then).

And does anyone remember when the film Bonnie & Clyde came out and it was the fashion to wear blouses with frilly necks and wrists (and that was just the geezers) and berets and mid-calve skirts.

But the most interesting thing of all is watching my daughter swan about in fashions that she thinks of as cutting edge, but knowing that I was wearing exactly the same thing at her age - what goes around, goes around again!

Those were the days. You know you're growing old when you start to choose your knickers for comfort rather than for show!

Dianna

**LiesaAnna** · 16-11-2005, 11:49

Dianna you do make me laugh!!!

anyone remember the pink panther choc bar, pink choc, i loved that! 2p

2oz of sherbert different coloured ones, and you could ask for them to be put in the same bag if you wanted an ounce of one and an ounce of another colour added to it cor an i wonder why im fat![msnsad]

**Ray&Sarah** · 16-11-2005, 12:20

Its just not the same now that the don't weigh out a 1/4 or 1/2 from large jars behind the counter.[msnsmile2]

**CarolAnn** · 16-11-2005, 19:02

Funny you mention that Sarah, but when I used to trudge into London everyday, there was a flower stall at our station, and after a few years he started selling sweets from the jar (yes I stopped, often!!) But, last year, he opened a small "old Fashioned" sweet shop in Newport Pagnell,close by, extending his enterprise from the station stall!! He is VERY successful I might add

And....my 13 year old tells me, she and her friends are really into 80's music now too[msntongue] I have some of that on LP's still

Doh!! I am over 23.....[msnoo]

**mizzy** · 16-11-2005, 19:57

Paula is obviuosly the same age as me

i loved cola cubes and you can still get them Paula but my favourite was sweet peanuts and our local shop sells these too although they dont taste as good as they did all those years ago

and of course i have to mention my favourite Tudor smoky bacon crisps

on the fashion side i had a ra ra skirt and also a puffball skirt[msnembarrased]

my first record that i ever owned was duran durans "rio"

and i had a big crush on the lead singer from a-ha[msnembarrased][msnembarrased]

aaargh i'm feeling old was 1985 really 20 years ago ?

Mizzy

**Paula D-S** · 16-11-2005, 20:02

Mizzy we are the same age, my first record was Sunday Girl by Blondie, I didn't do "boy bands" then, but, I love them now. Can't wait for Take That tonight and I got tickets today to see Robbie in Dublin and I can't tell you how excited I am in fact I feel happier than when I won a million on the lottery[msnwink]