Do you “have a decade”

1970s I liked the different music styles Motown Barry White The Sweet Rod Stewart T Rex. I made my own hot pants size 10 I liked maxi dresses too. Working earning my own money still lived with my parents they argued a lot but I loved them.

60s - I was so lucky, I truly had a ball- partly because I had 2 big brothers who took me everywhere with them - culminating with the Isle lf Wight Festival, 1970.

We had friends in London in the early 70s. We went to visit them. They showed us all the sights, we went to see the musical Hair. My friend took me to the Biba store. We were very hard up but I managed to buy a lovely lilac top. I wish I'd kept it. Happy days indeed.

The 80s - children born in 1978 & 1981 so full on with them, and it was quite a blingy decade with regular shopping at Harrods and Harvey Nichols, and lunch at Drones on Pont Street.

Ah, whose were the days!

Early 80's and the new Romantics by age. But I also think I'm a child of the 60s. Peace and love and equality and all that. Those qualities are through me, like a stick of rock.

Also love the 1960s styles. But I do also love the early 80's stuff. I lived just off Sloane Square then and it was a fab place to be.

Wow Maw a blast from the past
Sooo many memories!
1978 I met my husband, he was with his friend and neighbour in his big black Alpine car, which almost knocked me down!

Shortly after meeting colliding with with my now DH, the friend became engaged and then married and moved a few roads away.

We became foursome and spent many a evening at our friends house.
I was quite a bit younger than the other three (19yrs) and it was my first foray into the world of grown up dinner parties after the usual teenage discos and partying, I felt quite sophisticated.

Our friends had a complete dinner service including the tea and coffee sets.

It was the same as yours Maw .

My decade was my teenage years the purple 1970s .
The music, the fashion and living the single life, no responsibility life.
Happy days.

The eighties were good with marriage and children, but the hard work , mortgages and a responsibilities had begun!

60 s for the music fashion the freedom of family responsibilities, and the thought of the wonders to come in my life (I m still waiting)

Apart from covid I quite like now. I like big open plan, light filled housing, kitchen islands, big comfortable beds, an eclectic mix of furnishings is not only acceptable but encouraged, modern cars with parking assist. I love the fashion, boots with anything, wear what suits, trousers and jeans acceptable anywhere for women. Music, anything goes, even millennials play Wilson Pickett at their parties.
Anything that interests us is at our finger tips on the www.
On a personal level, I can enjoy my grandchildren, be as silly as I like, be as messy as I want to be. Then they all go home and I can enjoy my adult home all tidy and fairly organised.
I don’t have too many responsibilities, no job, no children to discipline.
Years worth of great friends who know me well and the enjoyment of making and getting to know new friends, gathering new interests without time constraints.
Crikey, before I started I hadn’t realised just how good now is, even with covid it is the decade for me.

Cherrytree, we had an orange Alpine car, brand new straight from the factory, because my FIL worked there. He ordered it for us, got a huge discount, but didn't check what colour we preferred.
DH was raging when it arrived and he saw the colour, tangerine orange describes it perfectly!
It was like driving a tank. I can even remeber the reg, FHS159T, yet I can't even remember where I have put my phone!

We've been here before with this one Kate1949. Born the same year.

Love of the 60's. I was tall (6'1" and still am). Slim (size 12 not now - pity). Started work which boosted my confidence level. Whole music and fashion scene. Had a pixie hair cut like Mia Farrow and flashed my long legs in mini skirts, especially getting out of my boyfriend's mini. Great music to dance to at the local discos every weekend. Best disco was above a pub. Tiny room, pitch black and soul music blasting out.

If I could mix it all up with some of your choices PollyTickle, I'd have the perfect decade. Pleasures of retirement, financial security, fantastic benefits and opportunities the www has brought me and big open plan living.

Tangerine dream.

Yep Marydoll Same here, remember all our registration numbers including some of my dad's.
Can't mind where I've left my specs, keys mobile etc,

Dad had a Ford Anglia reg YBF 687. Apparently an acronym ((according to mum) for you bloody fool!
I think held together with Isopon.

One bad winter, we were travelling back home (Clydebank) for Christmas.
Just passed the Shap, the snow was falling, I was in back of car wrapped in my mum's fur coat, no heater.
Smoke started to come out the engine, we all bailed out the car . and dad got presents out of boot just in time before car went up in flames .
Think mum was correct.

6' 1" muse wow. You could have been a model. I wasn't that tall but I enjoyed my clothes.

The late ‘60s for me too!

PollyTickle

Apart from covid I quite like now. I like big open plan, light filled housing, kitchen islands, big comfortable beds, an eclectic mix of furnishings is not only acceptable but encouraged, modern cars with parking assist. I love the fashion, boots with anything, wear what suits, trousers and jeans acceptable anywhere for women. Music, anything goes, even millennials play Wilson Pickett at their parties.
Anything that interests us is at our finger tips on the www.
On a personal level, I can enjoy my grandchildren, be as silly as I like, be as messy as I want to be. Then they all go home and I can enjoy my adult home all tidy and fairly organised.
I don’t have too many responsibilities, no job, no children to discipline.
Years worth of great friends who know me well and the enjoyment of making and getting to know new friends, gathering new interests without time constraints.
Crikey, before I started I hadn’t realised just how good now is, even with covid it is the decade for me.

I agree to a large extent polly but I did enjoy being slim and having boyfriends with flashy sports cars even though I had no self confidence.

I enjoyed being there for the music first time round but I enjoy lots of current music too.

I love the Internet and social media now rather standing in a freezing hall or phone box.

And I really appreciate having a home I love with lots of mid century furniture mixed with comfy modern stuff.

I think I look back at the '60s, well the late '60s that is, through rose coloured spectacles probably because I was wearing actual rose coloured specs some of the time. It was the whole Swinging 60s fashion, The Beatles, Biba that heady mix. Living close to London and frequently visiting the iconic landmarks I think many of us felt right at the epi centre. The fact of the matter I was probably a bit too young to appreciate the 60s, being only mid teens at they drew to an end. I was reminded of that the other day when I re watched "Don't Look Now" on IPlayer a favourite film from the early '70s, that was the actual time when I was doing all the concerts, travelling abroad and being able to afford high fashion, somehow the seventies never really cut it the way the sixties did I blame the platform shoes and hot pants! some of it was a bit naff in retrospect.

Being young and slim was very enjoyable I admit Kitty, getting in and out of sports cars a plus too.
I suppose each decade had good bits but I still choose now as my best.

I never had a boyfriend with a sports car Kitty, the best I managed was one with a ford anglia. Kept him though, still together over 50 years later and now we have a Fiesta! Just too much excitement.

60s for me !
Left school and went to college. Met my DH when working as a waitress in the summer of 65.He was on holiday in Scotland with his parents. Bless him. He was only 18 !
Loved The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
Loved the clothes too.

The decade we're in right now is always the favourite:

Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift
That's why we call it the present

Hetty I do like your post!

Katie1949 I was very much into maxi skirts but could never get them long enough so my mum's Singer sewing machine was always out. Handle not electric. Even made myself a coat like this one. Orange with green lining. I was getting into colours from flower power period too.

Oh! I've shrunk slight. Had to measure DH's height the other day so did mine as well. I've lost 1/2 inch so have to record 6' 1/2" now. I lived in rural Derbyshire so no chance of being spotted for becoming a model.

Had a nice little mg midget in the late 60’s. Great music, loved mini skirts and long boots. We were in Australia throughout the seventies, wouldn’t get many surf boards in a sports car so we had a Ford Falcon station wagon and lived a few miles north of Surfers Paradise and the Gold Coast, lived in bikinis and skimpy shorts at weekends, uni in Brisbane, then commuted to Canberra for three days a week in black dresses and court shoes. Started our family, had lots of fun. A decade of contrasts for me and my second best decade.

1960’s just started work, slim so could wear latest fashion.

Used to be able to buy Mary Quant clothes at reasonable price in shop owned by little Jewish man in Whitechapel market don’t know how he sold them at the price.

Best music decade but suppose lot of posters will challenge that?
Also had boyfriend who had Lambretta shudder to think of now but we used go all over the place no crash helmets then.
Enjoyed 70’s too that’s when I had my boys.

That coat is gorgeous muse.

PollyTickle

Apart from covid I quite like now. I like big open plan, light filled housing, kitchen islands, big comfortable beds, an eclectic mix of furnishings is not only acceptable but encouraged, modern cars with parking assist. I love the fashion, boots with anything, wear what suits, trousers and jeans acceptable anywhere for women. Music, anything goes, even millennials play Wilson Pickett at their parties.
Anything that interests us is at our finger tips on the www.
On a personal level, I can enjoy my grandchildren, be as silly as I like, be as messy as I want to be. Then they all go home and I can enjoy my adult home all tidy and fairly organised.
I don’t have too many responsibilities, no job, no children to discipline.
Years worth of great friends who know me well and the enjoyment of making and getting to know new friends, gathering new interests without time constraints.
Crikey, before I started I hadn’t realised just how good now is, even with covid it is the decade for me.

❤️ this PollyTickle.
Actually I agree. This is my bestest time.
We are very fortunate that we & our extended family all enjoy good health mentally and physically which money cannot buy and gives us great peace of mind.
I love going to bed and sleeping until I’ve had enough. Another plus.
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