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Hi Jeangenie, and everyone else  - AHHH, Alias Smith & Jones - a disaster if you MISSED them !  Had forgotten all about that series.  I did O levels and left school in 72, just loved the 70s - went abroad with friends (and without family) for the first time, fell in love, (well that was a 20 year disaster, but great at the time!)  and remember the long hot summers of 75 and 76 -just felt so sophisticated in flowing skirts, platform sandals and lfoppy hats - waht a sight I must have looked.  Long dresses worn in the day time (nightmare for driving!)  But I do remember the elastic skips - must have been a hand over from the 60s, we called them French Skips and made them with loads of coloured elastic bands.  used to do cats creadles too, with yards of string.   Oh, and long, intenses discussions in the palygound about if you would EVER sleep with a boy before marriage!  Does anyone even consider that an option now?  Oh, and in 73 I got my fav. pony, and in the same year my Border Collie. 
Anyone watch "That 70s Show" on TV - it hits true in so many ways (oh those clothes and Hair dos!)
bye
Gwen

I was born in 1977 and so don't really remember much about the 70's.  Someone earlier in this thread mentioned Camp Coffee though - I love the stuff and still drink it today!!!

lucky u Storm, i got mumps on the day of the silver jubilee school party - i was gutted - had my party dress and everthing it was a bit like the dress Heidi wore, i thought i looked the bees-knees!
the best schoolprogramme was 'How we used to live' it was fantastic.
choppers, smurfs...awww i'm gettin nostalgic now!
apparently i used to kiss the tv when 'i'll be your long haired lover from liverpool' came on (can't even remmeber who sang it - think it was one of the Osmonds!!!)
Mel

It was 'Little Jimmy Osmond' who sang that ... I'd hoped I'd forgotten, but no, the vision is still there ...

:) :) @ Jeangenie

Fiona

thx jeangenie i really needed reminding that it was jimmy osmond that i used to kiss!lol

I was married for the first time in 1973 and had 1st and 2nd children in 75 and 76 :D I remember quite a bit about the decade but not from a childs point of view :D

Ah the seventies ! :)

A fabulous era to be a teenager, I enjoyed every minute of it !

Of course you'll all remember this classic advert .....

http://www.coldal.org.uk/clips/smash.rm

Ah! yes, Smash - another thing I remember from the 70's then.

Radio Luxemburg .....and , consequently , FAB208 was the magazine of choice in 1970 :D Other magazines I read before getting married and getting all domesticated were Honey and 19 ..anyone else?

Remember the Jackie with Cathy and Claires Advice Pages ( How do i kiss a boy ??? and all that mullarkey ) :D
And Blue Jeans and all those Photo Love Magazines :D  Bring 'em back ;)

And I went everywhere on rollerskates for some reason and still have a scar on my knee as proof of my skating expertise ;)

I used to read 'Jackie', and when I was younger still, 'Mandy'. My brother used to swipe them to read as light relief from his thesis for his Physics degree - he used to say it kept him sane!
:)

Mel,

Radio Luxemburg  was great, it used to crackle in my house..

Pam

I had a small transistor radio that my dad managed to get whilst in Hong Kong ..so I had the earplug in and listened to Lux under the sheets at night :D Out of ALL the DJs , Tony Prince was THE best at the time :D :D

ROFLOL, I had a radio shack radio I got in Canada it was a hug thing you fitted over your ears like the ear protects LOL..

I have had a right old laugh reading these..   

Pam

Oh Lel you have me basking in nostalgia here.

Well born in 1958 makes me 45 i think.

My time for playing was the sixties and my memory if it serves me right was playing

French skipping with elastics,
two balls
hop scotch
british bulldog 1 2 3
Will you cross my red red river
statues
ordinary skipping
looking for caterpillars
but the best one was
using a lolly stick to burst tar bubbles on the road.

Early seventies was will I ever be kissed, will I ever have a boyfriend reading Jackie and Bunty and all the teen comics.   Late seventies were  discos like Tramps, Tiffany's rotters fagins cellar vie romanoffs all the big clubs in Manchester. 

And then the eighties came marriage and children.

Fond memories.

Tessa

Lel, remember all of that..espeically the " Doublers" on the shed..

I remember collecting flower leaves thinking it would make perfume ( it never did), catching tadpoles from the pond and keeping them till they got their legs LOL..

The baycity rollers were on in our house all the time. :-) oh and don't forget the chopper bikes..

Boy do I feel old LOL

Pam

This is a superb thread :D  I'm a 70's babe, just had my 30th last week

You've really got my memory going now with all the games involving elastic bands and skipping ropes.   Playing two baller on anyones wall or door and 3 baller if you were clever doing under arm and over arm, under your leg etc. :D 

Did anyone read Girl and Dreamer ?  Similar to Jackie and Blue Jeans.  I used to collect rubbers, gawd didn't you get them in funny shapes with funny smells, don't seem to make em like that anymore.  What about the pencils that were strawberry and lemon, the tops of them would smell really fruity :D

Does anyone remember the tv programme You and Me ?  And Fingerbob ?  Don't forget Captain Cave Man :D

Did anyone used to grow carrot tops ?  You'd nick em when your mam was doing Sunday dinner and stick them in water on a saucer and watch them sprout LOL !!!

Keep the memories coming guys !

"You and me, me and you
Lots and Lots for us to do"  - can't remember anymore.

Clangers, Herbs, Hectors House; Radio One Road Shows; Revision for O'Levels; Youth Club; Jackie Magazine for me, Diana mag for my best friend; Charlie perfume; Bay City Rollers, The Glitter Band, Donny Osmond; Northern Soul; West Ham winning the cup; Starsky and Hutch;  making pictures from nails and wire; John Craven and Newsround; Curried Eggs, spaghetti bolognese (daring!!) and prawn cocktails followed by peach melba; jumpsuits; cork tiles; purple; Ford Capri's; falling in love and being brokenhearted!

.....ooooh those were the days!

PS If you were very posh you could grow the top of a pineapple too!

LOL @ jackyjat

Just remembered Swapshop and Saturday Superstore !!  Cheggers plays pop, Godzilla....

Roller discos, the youth club wearing ra ra skirts :D  Did anyone wear bright coloured ankle socks, you know, illuminous green, yellow or pink then it got fashionable to wear odd colours - or perhaps it was me and my mates that were odd :D

You and me, me and you, lots and lots for us to do, lots and lots for us to see, me and you, you and me"

... Knee length stripey socks with toes in that seem to have crept back into the shops this xmas....

I remember the luminous sock bit being more 80's.  I don't remember doing luminous in 70's just purple, purple and more purple, apart from the jumpsuit that was yellow and must have made me look like a banana.  Oh!  and lots of cheesecloth shirts.

You see, I am old now and my memory is failing me, it takes a while to kick start into action!

Yeh I think the socks were early 80s actually, now that I think about it ;-)

Claire you mentioned Swap Shop :D I used to sit there every Saturday Morning wondering what I could swap without my mum realising it had gone ;) and I thought Noel Edmonds was gorgeous :o !!
And why did we wear short sleeved dresses over polo necks or long sleeved blouses :o ( well it was the fashion by us anyway ) and big clumpy shoes with little skinny stick legs ??? :rolleyes:

Does anyone remember Pippa Dolls too - the poor girls version of Sindy or Barbie ?? She had bendable legs but my Pippas bendy bits burst through her knees and made her look deformed :(
And those dolls that had hair that grew - you could make it longer or shorter simply by pulling ?
God I've just realised I loved the 70s !!

LOL @ lel

Don't remember Pippa Dolls but the ones that had hair that grew were called Tressy (sp?) dolls I think.  I had one.  Had a cabage patch kid too but I think that was very early 80s rather than 70s.

Did anyone have a pogo stick ? :D  Home knit cardigans with embroidery on was ded fashionable too.

To my shame i had a home knitted cardigan for big school as part of my uniform and all my friends had nice shop bought ones :(

I had a pippa doll we had the man but i forget what his name was.  I had to have knitted stuff  :D :D it went all baggy after a couple of washes.  My mum used to drag me in wool shops and the lady used to put the wool away and mum would go in an buy a couple of balls every week, now and again I'd have to stick my arm out for measurements :) :).   My parents were seperated and I remember there was only a couple of other kids in my year whose parents were divorced it wasn't a big deal to me but people seemed kind of awkward about it, bet thats not the case now though :) :)

I remember Crow & Alice off you and me and Duncan the dragon.  try this link http://tv.cream.org/

Pippa Dolls

Have to say , I had a Sindy and a Paul bought in 1965 and not a Pippa :D :D

I remember pippa dolls, they were really small dolls, I also had a doll called Daisy, that was a cheap version of sindy.
Other playground games I remember are stuck in the mud, and a game where loads of kids stood in two long lines on either side of the playground, you had to hold hands really tightly, then decide who you wanted to call over. You had to sing something along the lines of Roll over, Roll over, will Tracey come over. Then Tracey had to run fast and try to barge through the hands of the people on the other side. If she got through, she'd return to her own team, if she didn't then she would join there team. In the street we would play Bulldog from one side of the road to the other, and kerby with a tennis ball. What about Oranges and Lemon says the bells of St Clemens.
Lel, the words of the chant, I used to know was, All in together girls, never mind the weather girls, 1, 2,3.
T.v favourites were, Mary, Mungo and Midge. and Christle tips and Alister.

I don't like to boast but I had "Patch", Sindy's little sister and she had a Brownie uniform just like mine!!  Infact I still have some of her clothes in a box upstairs, I can't bring myself to throw them out, despite Patch having met her demise some years ago. 

I also had Tressy, with the long strand of hair coming out the middle of her head.  She was Sindy sized and often shared the bedroom with Sindy; I had the dressing table, bed AND wardrobe!  Little coat hangers as well.  I was always a bit disappointed with Paul, he didn't quite match up to what I thought a boyfriend ought to be, especially in comparison to some Action Men I had seen (ones whose eyes moved from side to side).  My knowledge of the other sex was quite limited at that time but there was something 'not quite right' about him - he didn't have any hair for one, just a painted on bit.  Never mind, Sindy had her little sister, best friend Tressy and Paul, it was a bit like a version of 'Friends'.

I had a Patch too :D I loved all the freckles on her face and her cute dungarees :D

I had a Sindy and 2 Patches - one blonde and one brunette! In those days you didn't need to buy a new doll with each change of clothes - you just bought the outfit for your existing doll. So much cheaper!

Oh, I used to love Pippa dolls.  I used to have Pippa and my sister had Marie (who I secretly preferred).  I also remember we had Sindy and Paul and on the Christmas we got them there was snow outside and we went out with their ice-skating boots and took them skating on a neighbours water butt which had frozen over! We never got a Barbie doll though!  Remember being a bit jealous when my sister got a Tiny Tears!

We also used to play 'Kerbie' but with a football.  Never really saw many cars down our roads then - we used to play all our games in the road. Kids of today do miss out alot.

Fiona

I ALWAYS wanted a Tiny Tears and never got one :(
And what was that other doll called Tippy Tumbles or something like that ? Who could do roll-overs ?

I had a tiny tears and a nooky bear!  I also had peddle pushers / ra-ra skirts and frilly blouses for parties.  :(