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[Sweet]

Hehe sounds like great fun doing it by hand, though dam cold i would imagine! Hehe had to laugh as 1976 was the year i was born! But don't say anything ... i didn't say you were old!!!!

Sweet X x X

[Andrew MacLean]

Well I was born in 1950, so my age is always easy to work out!

Andrew

[Sweet]

Very true!! But sadly, this makes you 3 years OLDER than my dad!!!!!

LOL!!!

Sweet X x X

[Andrew MacLean]

Only because I started before he did.

1950 was a vintage year. Still comfortably within the "boomer" years, we became the mainstay of the rebellious 60's (a decade that really began in 1963 or 4, and didn't end until 1973). We were the Woodstock generation.

We were the generation that said adieu to De Gaul, protested about the war in vietnam, saw Harold Wilson arise in an atmosphere of unbridled hope only to vanish in a whelter of disappointment.

We greeted Kennedy and our confidence was shaken when he was shot. We sang to the dream of Martin Luther King Jr only to weep when he was killed.

We wore the Mandella t shirts and our hearts leapt when Alan Boesak was made President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. We feted Winnie only to feel betrayed by her "necklesses" speach. We felt the shame of Boesak's disgrace but found new hope in Tutu.

Were we guilty of seeking salvation where it was never going to be found? Guilty as charged; like every generation we made heroes of ordinary people. Unlike previous generations, our heroes were too quickly exposed or cut down.

But I am bold to believe that in some ways the world now is better than it would have been had it not been for the optimism we brought to the task of growing up. Claire your dad was part of an epoch-making generation. When I was six I was twice as old as he. when I was nine, he had become two thirds as old as I. When I was twelve, he was three quarters my age. The gap continues to close!

Andrew

[GarethB]

I remember 1976, for summer to be a heatwave it has to near 1976 standards. I remember coming out of school and sitting on the foot path with my brother remoulding the tarmac while we waited for my mum to fetch us.

[Sweet]

Yes my mother having twins in July 1976 remembers the heat wave all too well so i'm told!

Hehe i don't remember anything, although shame that as my sister and i made a great entrance and got taken by ambulance with two police bikes to a bigger hospital ten miles away as we needed incubators.

Well i just wanted everyone to know that i had arrived!!!!!

Sweet X x X

[Andrew MacLean]

1976 was indeed the long hot and dry summer to which all others are compared, but few remember that it snowed at the beginning of June that year.

(in parts of Scotland, at least)

Andrew

[John Smith]

In a way I do find it amazing that any baby being born in July 1976 would need an incubator during the day... I'm sure just opening the hospital door would have kept them warm!

[Sweet]

LMAO very true!!!!!!!

Sweet X x X

[Paul Osborne]

In a way I do find it amazing that any baby being born in July 1976 would need an incubator during the day... I'm sure just opening the hospital door would have kept them warm!

Ah but its easier to get them crispy in an incubator!

--Paul
--spent three weeks in an incubator in 1970