Any oldies out there?

[Joe_the_Lion]

I really can not remember the summer of 1976. All my childhood summers seemed to be long hot ones with no specifically mega hot ones.

Was 1976 really that memorable?

[Goodsoulette]

My mum and dad constantly bang on about that summer. I think that firemen didnt have enough water to put out fires is probably a testament to the drought. Mum says she ran out into the street when it started raining as did everyone else.

[Joe_the_Lion]

Except Henry the hydrophobe who happily stays indoors when it rains I hear.

[GetOverIt]

I remember the ladybird plague. And I was 15.

[dot.hawkes]

It was, we went to the lido at Market Drayton it was sweltering, I think that is Alton towers now

[joko]

ahh, the ladybugs, and running through the sprinkler in the garden... ahhh


i am only a few years older than you joe and i only just vaguely remember it - i would have been just over 4 an a half.

[Joe_the_Lion]

Was the ladybird plague in 1976, or was it just a random memory regarding summer?

[dot.hawkes]

I don't remember there being a plague of them in 76 and i was 20. Though I was at work alot, I did live in the country and it doesn't ring any bells, i remmeber the brown lawns and the stand pipes cos of the water shortage and we had two horses and had to keep moving them around the fields to find grazing

[GetOverIt]

I'm pretty sure it was '76 - though I'd have to check !

There you go - first hit in Google

In the summer of 1976 the ladybird population exploded in the UK.

[dot.hawkes]

It must have been darn sarf cos up in Lancashire i have no recollection of it!

[Joe_the_Lion]

Dotty, I bet you were dating some toff in a Triumph Stag and had a bipperty bopperty summer hat, probably in yellow.

[dot.hawkes]

no he had a Mach1 green Ford mustang actually lol and I always wore a white cloche hat in summer

[society]

Wardy,

I consider myself to be young and quite youthful but I'm getting older by the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and years.

[Joe_the_Lion]

Very impressed Dotty. Did you find the power distribution on the Mach 1 more torquey than, say, the classic Wentworth engine?

[GetOverIt]

No I'm from Liverpool - I was visiting my auntie Cath in Rock Ferry - and I remember the station was swarming with Ladybirds!

[dot.hawkes]

No idea he traded it in for a turquoise Jensen, i only went by the colour not the performance lol Oh and he had a scimitar too whatever that was, a brown one

[speechless]

I remember loads of ladybirds but not sure which summer. Getoverit, are you over it yet?????

[GetOverIt]

Don't turn around
I'm sick and I'm tired of your face
Don't make this worse
You've already gone and got me mad
It's too bad I'm not sad
It's casting over
It's just one of those things
You'll have to get over it

Obviously Not !

[warpig3]

Ah the summer of 76, brilliant, it went on for ages.

[legend758duo]

the big drought.first time we went camping in a frame tent to solway lido in silloth.loved it and returned many times.
great memories.

[warpig3]

Hello GetOverIt, thought I told you to go to bed!