Indoors, we decorated our living room with something called Fibron. It came in a cardboard tub, and you decanted the "stuff" - short acrylic fibres, in a number of colours (we chose old gold, trendy at the time) - into a bucket, adding adhesive and water. When it was mixed you just bunged it on the wall. Hubby discovered you could throw it, from a distance... great fun. Well, we were young and stupid...
yes and aren’t we feeling the after shock of the lleylandii craze still today!
The manual pushmower worked perfectly well, as I remember it. We only had about three square metres, mowed a few times a year. It was mostly most and buttercups.
My mower is fairly similar, but has more "modern" handle, not Y-shape. Anyone remember when were strimmers invented? It looks as if that chap could use one. On second thoughts I think that's a more recent pic - his trousers aren't very '70s.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I remember ice cream, since I was a child in the 70s. Really bright yellow vanilla flavour, Mr Whippy style. Tasted artificial as hell. Ditto the strawberry version. Smash potato flakes were grim. My mum worked long hours and would resort to using it, now and again. School semolina, Heinz spaghetti hoops and Arctic roll.
Was Viennetta 80s? Can’t remember.
I definitely have photos in which I’m wearing brown cord flares, orange Mary Janes, stripy orange and brown jumpers and have regulation 3 inch thick, blue NHS specs.
Saw them in the bottom of a freezer in Sainsbury's last week @Fire . I wasn't tempted. My daughter used to plague me for those sweet things you put in the toaster. A very rare treat. Which reminds me of toast toppers. A little tin of cat sick that you spread on your toast and put under the grill. Then there was Sunny Delight that they made out you had to keep in the fridge so you thought it was healthy. Full of vitamin C by all accounts ( a good spoonful of ascorbic acid, I'm sure)
Pop Tarts! Oh god, they were sickeningly sweet. Findus Crispy Pancakes were a thing too, .
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The height of sophistication. Kids today don't know they're born.
Really bright yellow vanilla flavour, Mr Whippy style. Tasted artificial as hell. Ditto the strawberry version.
Smash potato flakes were grim.
My mum worked long hours and would resort to using it, now and again.
School semolina, Heinz spaghetti hoops and Arctic roll.
Was Viennetta 80s? Can’t remember.
I definitely have photos in which I’m wearing brown cord flares, orange Mary Janes, stripy orange and brown jumpers and have regulation 3 inch thick, blue NHS specs.
Nice.
Oh god, they were sickeningly sweet.
Findus Crispy Pancakes were a thing too,
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