What were you doing 31 years ago today?

[Bookworm]

Wow, that must make you the oldest teenager in the world!!!

[Desperate Daniella]

Happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday dear Kiptower,

Happy birthday to you.

[kiptower]

thank you DD

 

teenager indeed, I worked hard to get old , I tell ya

[babybear39]

Penblwydd Hapus kip

 

I was finishing junior school and looking forward to the Summer holidays 'cos we were having our first proper holiday in a caravan in West Wales

[SOD'EM]

 

I was finishing junior school and looking forward to the Summer holidays 'cos we were having our first proper holiday in a caravan in West Wales

 

 

 

I would have hated to have gone on a (NOT) proper holiday with you lot.

 

 

LOL:p

 

 

 

You been to Colomendy as well BB?

[babybear39]

Oh, and even at age 11 the children in the valleys communities dreaded what was to come under the f'ing Tories

[vengeancedemon]

As to the Etype, sadly no, but we did run to a 12 year old XJ6

and as to the FoT, well now and then these days:)

[msowing]

Oh, and even at age 11 the children in the valleys communities dreaded what was to come under the f'ing Tories

 

I agree babybear being a former valleys girl. Tories ruined the mining communities

[Fred Bassett]

I agree babybear being a former valleys girl. Tories ruined the mining communities

 

I'm afraid to say that this lot have not done much for the rural communities, especially where I live.

[cirian75]

May 1979.

 

I would have been in my last few months on Nursery school before starting at Infants school in Sept

[Bookworm]

I'm afraid to say that this lot have not done much for the rural communities, especially where I live.

 

Fred's opinion of Labour goes like this:

 

After being elected, Tony Blair announces that he is in fact chosen by god and to prove so, tomorrow he will cross the Thames by walking on the water like Jesus did.

 

Next day, the media and the crowds are gathered. TB arrives, takes off his socks and shoes, rolls up his trouser legs and calmly walks on the water, across the Thames and on the other side.

 

The next day, the Daily Mail has in the front page:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXCLUSIVE!!! Tony Blair can't even SWIM!!!

 

 

 

********************

 

(I learned that joke a long time ago, and it was about Mitterrand, but that's the great thing, it's interchangeable!!!)

[Fred Bassett]

Very good, but you're quite right, I have no time for Labour. As you said in another post, you vote for what you think is best for you and your family. For me, that is not Labour - in the rural communities it very rarely is.

 

Regards.

 

Fred

[pompeyfaith]

May 1979 - had just left school and went straight into a job at tesco how many school leavers these days can do that.

 

Ok it was not a fantastic job but it was work.

 

PF

[Bookworm]

That's because it was '79, honey. By 1980/81, that already wouldn't have been an option anymore.

[babybear39]

I actually went straight from 6th form into a job

[MONX]

I was an army brat, we were in Germany so although the election was news it wasnt big news....we were just interested in scrumping from the farmer next to our estate and if we were gonna have a Schnell Imbiss for tea!

 

Although when we got back to blighty a year later it all became very real to us......Thatchers Britain wasnt much to be proud of, communities ripped apart with the miners strike, race riots in Toxteth etc etc. Oh and she took our free milk away from us at school....the bish!

[Fred Bassett]

Unemployment was bad in the North and other areas like South Wales for sure, but in London at the time it was never a problem. It did seem like two different worlds at the time.

[SOD'EM]

Unemployment was bad in the North and other areas like South Wales for sure, but in London at the time it was never a problem. It did seem like two different worlds at the time.

 

 

 

Yes Fred, but that was before we merged with Poland:p

[pinkduchess]

I was on the last year of my apprenticeship before joining the Police. I was also having fun running around Luton's pubs, and then spending half the night on the top of Dunstable Downs steaming up my windows of my Ford Cortina MK3 with my bird .. .

 

i used to love going to dunstable downs not in steamed up ford cortinas though lol

 

1979 - was in my early teens ....where have those 30 years gone?

[Desperate Daniella]

I was on the last year of my apprenticeship before joining the Police. I was also having fun running around Luton's pubs, and then spending half the night on the top of Dunstable Downs steaming up my windows of my Ford Cortina MK3 with my bird .. .

 

UKA - you have revealed your true identity. You are clearly Billericay Dickie, as immortalised by Ian Dury:

 

"Had a love affair with Nina

In the back of my Cortina....."

[ukaviator]