Do you remember......

[Gemma]

Oh - nearly forgot! When I went to secondary school and had to follow the ritual of rolling up the waistband of my skirt to achieve a miniskirt look...

The girls still do this!!
I just saved my skirts from when I was 11 and wore them when I was 15.

Most of this stuff is going over my head though

[minnie]

Hello

Well Gemma you are lucky if it is going over your head,you must be young!!

Lots of you that have your photos as avatars seem much younger than the memories you quote, jewellery making must be good for us!!

Indulge me a bit more, adverts, PAL enriched with marrowbone jelly, Esso Blue (they asked me how I knew),Cadburys Flake sixpence worth of heaven, MASH (they boil them for 20 minutes and bash them over the head...) The DAZ doorstep challenge etc Oh and don't forget to put a tiger in your tank!!

Sorry Gemma!!

[caroleallen]

Does anyone remember the crocodile add where the woman says "I wonder if he's a good boy like you and cleans his teeth every night and every morning"?

[Di Sandland]

Does anyone remember the crocodile add where the woman says "I wonder if he's a good boy like you and cleans his teeth every night and every morning"?

err, no. But I do know that everyone's a fruit and nut case and dad do you know the piano's on my toe? No son, you play it and I'll sing it.

[Sunnybank]

Gosh I could have written lots of these posts. A particularly horrid memory is of a pair of purple hot pants, thankfully we didn't take as many photographs in those days. In 1975 as a fresher I went to an Andy Fairweather Low concert, wasn't a fan, just a free gig.

Otherwise I was a deprived child - no Barbie or Sindy, no space hopper, but I did have a spirograph, still got it! Mmm could spirograph shapes inspire jewellery?

[Di Sandland]

oh I loved my spirograph! We also made spirograph pictures using nails and wire - do you remember those?

[caroleallen]

Oh yes, my OH and I made one of those pictures with silver thread. Years after we sent it to the charity shop I went to someone's house and there it was on their wall!

[ben b]

riding a wooly mamouth to work.....making animal bone necklaces....those were the days.....

[geti-titanium]

riding a wooly mamouth to work.

You could afford a woolly mammoth? - we had to make do with the brontosauro-bus

[Jayne]

when I was a kid we never had opposable thumbs
J x