Memorable Decades

[poliphilo]

They say the Sixties- by which I mean all that fabulosity and grooviness- only really happened to a few people- most of whom lived in London. I can't disagree. My sister owned the White Album and we listened to it quite a bit and otherwise- well- we didn't even smoke tobacco.

The same is true of the Eighties. No-one on my street wore red braces or marshalled lines of charlie with their credit card.  I was living in Greater Manchester, going though an adjustment in my marital arrangements and thinking mainly about theology.

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[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I'm just a bit too young to have really experienced the fabness of the 60s and, having married and had my first child quite young, the 70s totally passed me by, especially as we were living in rural Wales by then.

There were aspects of each decade that I experienced, eg listening to Radio Caroline, tights replacing uncomfortable stockings and wearing my skirts shorter in the 60s, then wearing them long in the 70s due to hippyish influences. But decades just aren't as easy to categorise as the media try to make out. It's a lazy shorthand.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I spent much of the 70s either in theological college or serving in curacies- and feeling (at least some of the time) that I'd taken a wrong turning.