Remember when…
We would enthusiastically wait for our favourite song to play on the radio and we would try and tape it on a blank “audio cassette” and get irritated when the DJ would talk over the end of the song.
Going to the public library and rummaging through the kids section for a Famous Five book I hadn’t read yet.
What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song. I will try not to sing out of key, yeah…. Wonder years.
Hanging up kitsch eighty’s Christmas decorations on the ceiling, while listening to Boney M on the record player….come they told me pa rum pum pum pum!
Disco lights, Primary School hall, standing on the side and eagerly hoping someone will ask me to dance to Glen Medeiros’s Nothings gonna change my love for you.
Sitting with your girlfriends at break with the paper fortune thing and predicting your life with them.
Tanning without cooking oil and sunlight soap in your hair wasn’t cool
July school holidays involved choosing sides between Martina Navratilova and Chrissy Evert.
Taking your skipping rope to school was hip so we could play “not last night but the night before, 24 robbers came knocking on my door…”
Ann of Green Gables, Gone with the Wind and the Golden Girls.
…and then we grew up a bit ~
Pleading with my mom to drop us off a street down from the party because her yellow beetle would backfire at the most inopportune times.
Rustlers Valley, Oppikoppi and Woodstock….what wild weekends they were!
Cheese Whizz Burgers from the local Roadhouse or dodgy boerewors rolls at 2 in the morning just opposite the Carlton Centre.
Doctor Martins and head banging to the Pixie’s in Marshall street was a weekly affair.
Oh what fun we had! I hope my kids will look back at their childhood and it will summon up the same good memories mine do.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard
Remember When Photography 
I LOVED this Post :)
And would you believe that I still have my docs, I wear them every now and then too!!!!!
Yes! Mix tapes from the radio. Extra bonus if the DJ played two songs I wanted in a row :)
Oh, those were the days.
Thank you for taking us back on memory lane :)
Oh gish Fiona, thanks for that trip down memory lane – that snippet from the music of the Wonder Years….and do you remember polistirene KFC buckets, Wham singing Last Christmas, the coconut smell on the beach from the suntan oil. Roller skating and Jacquelines in Pretoria, the Doors in Joburg and the Fridge. Ag ja….
Ah, thanks for a great post!!
I can relate so much and yeah for those younger years spent at Rustlers!!
So many good memories – loved those Cheese Whizz Burgers from Kansas. We had a wonderful time growing up and I will always cherish those memories and all the friendships that go with those memories xxx
Ooh! the fortune paper thing was so much fun! :)
Still have docs.
Remember when ….. we only left the house at 11pm on a friday night to go out ?
Sometimes when I hear a song from one of my old tapes….i can still hear where B-b-b-b- barney simon was playing his jingle on my taped version…… or I can remember what song was next !
Awesome post!
Doc Martens were such a part of our past and the 80s clothes – I am glad I have few pictures from then!
Loved, loved, loved this post! Made me smile!
Awesome memories xxx
I want bright yellow doc martens NOW!
Awesome post, thank you for making me smile!
I love this! Predicting our lives with that paper thingie and remember finding out how many kids we’d have and whether they’d be boys or girls with the frowning. Aaah…
Now they have apps for that! :)