had my 4 children in the 80s so it all went by in a blur of nappies, bottles, chicken pox and sleepless nights. But I do remember Dallas and who shot JR.

School leavers depending on Charlie… some things never change

SWINGBALL!! God was that the 80s? I was so competitive at that game, mainly because my Mam was so good at it! It was my mission to beat her. Good thing I was able to practice on my own because I played it day and night during the summer until I felt good enough to challenge her. So we got going, she was whacking the thing around with fierce strength, but I was ready and WHAM! The stupid ball hit off my thumb and the pain went zinging through my brain and before I knew it, I screamed ‘F@€!’ !!
It was the first time I had ever cursed in front of my mother and she was stunned. I started to ball my eyes out crying with pain and shame while my man stared in horror at me, before bursting out laughing in my face.
Ah, gas times!
Wasnt expecting to reminded if that, cool post Journal!

Recently won chocolate bars in competition by Caffreys – it had Big Times, Macaroons, Mint Crisp, teacakes and the yummy Snowball. I was in sweet heaven:-)

Yummy, those big time bars, nice with a cup off tea.

opefruits Marathon bars brandy balls bottles of milk with cream on top

Great memories there, summers of swing ball, road tennis, kerbs, kiss chasing, and kick the can and when it rained hours if Monopoly, Connect Four, Lego, Cindys and Action Man!Telly was great too, the Banana Splits, Why Don’t You, Scooby Doo, Mr Ben, Trumpton, Rent A Ghost, cheap sweets that we could get lots of with our 20p, ounce of pips, flying saucers, fizzle sticks, Chilly Willys, mint crisp bars and our great comics, Beeno, Dandy, Bunty, Smash Hits! Times were tough but our lives were much more enriched!

Clearing out an old bedroom yesterday, found the first record I ever got, OMD’s Joan of Arc.
I practically had worn it out.
1981.
BBC 4 ran a series called Synth Britannia last year, guys like Andy McCloskey, Vince Clarke and Gary Numan spoke of the joys of making music with homemade synths and samplers. It was an interesting point that while electronic intruments liberated a certain kind of genius in many, they also offered a platform to the likes of StockAitkenWaterman to manufacture pop hits.

Sweet times.

Was at the Queen concert in Slane…the Bangles and Chris Rea supported them. My outstanding memory of Freddie Mercury was the way he deftly dodged the plastic cider bottles of piss being launched up at him fom the front of the crowd…only in Ireland.

Recently found our old swing ball in my parents house. I have 3 boys who are now as addicted as we were. Swing ball rocks

Still prefer and miss the ‘Trigger’ bar of the ’70′s. nom, nom, nom, wish it was the ’70′s now but that I wasn’t a teenager and still in school! Hated school, every day! :(

Pretending to be characters from the cartoon ‘Mask’ and calling our bikes our ‘vehicles’

Teresa Lowe hasn’t aged a day

Texan bars!

Remembering the Time bars…mmm yummy!..

Pirate radio stations…. seemed to be a new one starting up every week

Now that was a trip down memory lane. Thank you

I recall turning 30 a few years ago and seeing an Ulster bank ad claiming that the kids who had Henry-Hippos now had kids of their own, boy did I shudder.