I cannot believe I used to…………

I used to rub my skin with lemons to try and rid myself of freckles never worked. Now I eat whole lemons and limes to keep cholesterol down with some success.

Take at least 8 inches off my skirts when I got away from home.
Wear purple tights and a suede midi skirt.
Have clothes for home and clothes for college.
Use peel-off eyeliner that came off on my boyfriend's jumper.
Wear pink suede boots in summer with a mini dress.
Oh and hotpants.

go to work and spend nine hours there (including lunch break) five days every week (except for holidays) for many years!

I cannot believe I accepted a lift home ( about 25 miles ) from a boy I danced with at a student union dance ! It never crossed my mind that he could have been an axe murderer !

Wear a bell around my neck and paint on freckles!

Be a size 10, paint on those Twiggy bottom lashes like Lexis did, also wear false eyelashes and paint on that crease line thing like Twiggy, wear Mary Quant ‘bare’ foundation when now I can’t bear the look and feel of foundation, have the legs to wear short skirts... Were the 60s really so long ago?

Ate margarine because mum couldn't afford butter. Did wear glittery blue eye shadow and blue mascara too so wrong!

Drive too fast, window down, music blaring, look at me.
Now when that person whizzes past I mutter something to do with a person who throws the caber.

Backcomb my hair!

Yes, hitchhike all over the country between the ages of 15 and 16. I even hitched in the area that Fred and Rose West were picking up girls and I know if they had stopped to give me a lift I would’ve got in because it was a man and a woman ?‍♀️?‍♀️

Wear micro skirts!

Chestnut

I can't believe I used to hitch hike on my own, London to Edinburgh. Late 1960s. It was mostly fine and the people were nice. I had a couple of incidents but I was so dismissive when they tried anything, and it somehow worked. At that age you think you're invincible.

Yes, hitch hike and pillion ride without a helmet.

I was a size 8! I still wear blue eyeshadow sometimes.

That I used to clean my own oven until I discovered a lovely local man who does it better ??

I can't believe I used to hitch hike on my own, London to Edinburgh. Late 1960s. It was mostly fine and the people were nice. I had a couple of incidents but I was so dismissive when they tried anything, and it somehow worked. At that age you think you're invincible.

Paint on bottom eyelashes (think Twiggy). I hate to think what they would look like if I tried now!

Not at the same time? <sharp intake of breath> ????