80s art (it faded)
abstinence-only sex ed (It failed.)
aniseed balls (in long tubes from Woolworths)
Big Society
breakfast cups
bumbags
career girls
collar studs
desk sets
divans and divan beds
ecstasy (Not the drug - just a state of bliss. We had to make our own fun in the 70s.)
writers Frank Yerby, Howard Spring, Frances Parkinson Keyes, RF Delderfield, William Carlos Williams
ley lines (At least they got people out of the house searching for the past that was being obliterated in the 70s.)
licking stamps
lorgnettes (and pince-nez)
parades with floats
peignoirs
playing records backwards to hear messages telling you to worship Satan
poltergeists (infrared cameras)
recipes called “something shape”
sock suspenders
the conga (it was a kind of dance, me lud)
the new man
thermos flasks
Things to Make and Do (“the sheer tedium of making a paper tree” – Steerforth, The Age of Uncertainty)
More here, and links to the rest.
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