The Retirement Thread

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GregP
GregP
Jul 2022
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I'm mystified why I don't remember 76. I've looked at the list of albums that came out that summer (Wings at the Speed of Sound, Fleetwood Mac, Black and Blue all records I still go back to) but none of them are triggering any flashbacks.
GregP
GregP
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1:23pm, 19 Jul 2022
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Oh my. The "Top hits of 1976" playlist on Spotify has started with Parliament's Give Up The Funk. Crikey.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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1:27pm, 19 Jul 2022
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I remember '76 very well, I was 9, but I don't remember '77 being hot, or not in comparison. The point about '76 was not so much how high the peak temperatures were but how long it lasted.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
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1:29pm, 19 Jul 2022
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Yup, I have lots of photos, though none specifically taken to illustrate the fact that we had a heatwave, because camera film was expensive and Dad liked to take photos of us and the places we went.

I was 12 and just about to hit the "graceless lump" phase of early puberty, that must have been the year Mum dieted down to eight and a half stone and discovered that although dieting was a way of life for her she hated actually being slim, and my sister was just terminally cute.
Ness
Ness
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1:33pm, 19 Jul 2022
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That's a great photo, Vrap. :)
um
um
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um
76? I was doing 12 hour shifts in Kimberly Clark paper mills, making and packing loo rolls. Amongst other tissue products. 6am to 6pm one week, 6pm to 6am the next.
I don't think I ever noticed the 'heat' .. either sleeping or working from late June to September to pay for uni.
Ally-C
Ally-C
Jul 2022
1:34pm, 19 Jul 2022
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Spent the Summer of 1976 on the Isle of Lewis iirc. Great times.

Although subsequently learned that my old dear was diagnosed with schizophrenia the previous year, my alcoholic dad had already bolted & I had no idea of the carnage to come😂
bigleggy
bigleggy
Jul 2022
1:49pm, 19 Jul 2022
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bigleggy
Gawd, Sharepoint. I hated that.


Me too , but it's kept me in gainful employment for about the last 8 or 9 years as a Support Guy for people who can't make it work.

If any of them ever bothered to google their issues I'd be doing much more interesting work tomorrow. But nah , Google is overrated.....
macca 53
macca 53
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Like um I was at uni. It was the end of my first year so I had June at uni but July-Sept I was working (my company sponsored me, so every “long” holiday was back to work!
jabberknit
jabberknit
Jul 2022
2:32pm, 19 Jul 2022
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In June 76', I'd just finished my second year at uni (and had met my best beloved in the January). I remember the summer heat very well, mainly because I spent it working in a big commercial bakery, definitely not a good place to work in a heatwave.

Mr JK and I went to Knebworth Festival in the August. The horror of the toilets there remains an abiding nightmare, after which any marathon portaloo is as nothing. I've never been to a music festival since.

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