Do you “have a decade”

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.

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)

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

I agree about the 60's being exciting and everything changing, though it was the mddle/end before I could really branch out. How we loved those mini skirts and tights, a long way from our parents with girdles and stockings. I remembe a white mini skirt and matching boots which looked great with my thin legs (or so I thought). How times have changed.

The 60's for me, worked in London surrounded by all the fashion and clubs, got married and had eldest DD.
Amazed you bought your pottery teaset in an antiques shop MayBeMaw I have cupboards full of that design in the other colour way. I loved it then and it is in daily use now.

Your first sentence really made me laugh *silverlining!’!

The 60s. Largely for the music. And I had the legs and figure for mini skirts, not that I’d ever wear them again even if I was still a size 10.
Must say I really did not care for all that orange and brown decor in the 70s. I still find it pretty hideous.

I saw the title as asking if we thought we had a decade ahead of us. Ha ha. If today is anything to go by am not sure.

Suppose the 60 s were most fun, fashions , music, all very exciting but after marrying at the end of the 60s life changed and we quickly settled down to saving ard fir a deposit on a house.
In 1970 we treated ourselves to a short caravan break. We were on the ferry going to the Isle of Wight and were surprised it was full of young hippy types. We didn’t even know about the festival taking place headlining Bob Dylan. Old before our time.

60s for me. The Beatles. The Stones. Gerry and the Pacemakers and so many more. I was young and wore my mini skirt and white boots with pride. I was very slim then.
I met and married my husband and had my first son in that decade. Everything was exciting then.

BBbevan

Boz I have The Hollies ‘All I need is the air that I breathe’ going round and round in my head. Loved the sixties. I was at art school. Folk clubs, jazz clubs , great times

Long and Winding road does it for me! Wonderful song.
Loved the Everly Brothers too. Loved my white plastic boots and mini-dresses and my Mary Quant bob which, incidentally is the hairstyle I have to-day. It all come around.

I feel that the 1960s was full of hope and the music and fashions were very much to my taste though I was just that little bit too young to be a hippy. The Laura Ashley fashions in clothes and decor of the 1970s were lovely and very flattering.

Thanks Urms. Eventually he left after over 20 years and I then met and married someone else so life started again but there are decades which I’ve basically blotted out. Never mind, life is good now but how I was so blind before I first married, and how someone can keep their true nature so well hidden I will never know. But of course in those days we didn’t usually live together before we were married (well not where I lived anyway, it was called living in sin). And divorce was still frowned upon so leaving didn’t feel like an option. Thank goodness times have changed!
Thanks for the ?!
Sorry for going off post everyone.

Boz I have The Hollies ‘All I need is the air that I breathe’ going round and round in my head. Loved the sixties. I was at art school. Folk clubs, jazz clubs , great times

Most certainly the 1960’s!!! I left school and had a part time job serving fuel at my dad’s garage. Started a 2 year secretarial course. First boyfriend and the best era ever for music!!!

I was married in the 80’s and my house which we decorated at that time is a pine furniture/interior nightmare as that was what was fashionable then and it lasts and lasts! My taste is more contemporary (greys/silver/) but my budget and interest in change and disruption isn’t!

Oh GSM that’s a poignant read. ?

The 60s for me. Mini skirts (I was a size 10 and had the legs, something’s gone wrong there?), Mary Quant tights and makeup (couldn’t afford the clothes), the wonderful music from all the groups back then, first boyfriend. Then I married in 1970 and straight away discovered abuse so my life kind of stopped for a long while. Not surprisingly the only thing I have from my post-1970 life is my wonderful son.

That is very nice * Urmstongran* !

60s for me too!
Sloppy joes , stretchy white knee boots, mini skirts and red crushed velvet bell bottomed trousers! Very happy days .

For me the seventies. I had a Saturday job in a boutique, loved the fashions, especially Mary Quant. I was a size ten, with good legs. It was downhill after that!

I got engaged, graduated from university, got married and had my first child.
What's not to like about it.