Summer of 69

I was 23 that July and engaged to my lovely fella. We sneaked a naughty holiday together in a one room flat in Torquay (long before this was acceptable so parents didnt know!). l remember the bed was a pull down one. Been married 46 years this August and he's still the best man in the world.

I was 14 in the August and still at school (which I hated).

Mmmm ... not a good summer for all of us. I was camping out on friends' floors with a 2 and a 3 year old after being beaten up - my nose and two ribs broken - in front of those dc by my drunken husband. Luckily I was able to find a hostel place and then rehousing - thanks to Erin Pizzey.

I was 15 and pretending that i was getting ready for GCSE's. Mainly spent time going to the Free Trade Hall in Manchester to see Leonard Cohen; Tyrannosaurus Rex; Free and Manfred Mann and other bands. I can remember the moon landing very well and the the feeling that the world had just got bigger. I don't recall having as much social awareness as 15/16 year olds do today.

I was 11 in August of 1969

Fascinating reading all these posts - how different all our lives were back then!

I was 12, just finishing my first year at grammar school!

Married for 10 years, 2 kids. Returned to nursing a few years previously part time on night duty. Got my first Sisters post- I was over the moon! Life was very hectic but life was good- so lucky!

Left school after A levels. Whoo Hoo!! a free summer...then immediately after my last exam I got chicken pox and the scabs took ages to clear. I refused to see my boyfriend (now DH) until they were all gone. I sat in the sun to try to dry them up and got left with a spotty sun tan! Had a holiday job in the Kenya Coffee House in Elys of Wimbledon for a few weeks to save up for camping trip to Tarragona & also for starting college in Camberwell.

Had just finished my GCEs and went on a German Exchange trip, got romantically entangled with a German boy named Mathias, despite having just started going out with a boy from school! All good fun, the boy from home won out and that lasted for about 18 months, and we kept in touch til he sadly died a few years back. It was a great time to be young - the prospect of college at no charge and with a grant that did not have to be paid back - my daughter still can't believe that we were GIVEN money to study!

I had been working in the centre of London for less than a year and a friend and I went on a cruise to the Greek Islands as far as Beirut, costing £99 each, last minute cancellations I believe, that was 3 months salary then. A beautiful city before the war ravaged it.

I was 17, at secretarial college. My cousins and my family went on holiday to Scarborough. My cousin and I went to a nightclub with permission from our families. They wouldn't let us in even though we were both going to be 18 at the end of the year. They wouldn't believe us. It was such a let down, as there was a live band on and we'd been really looking forward to it.

Starlily how absolutely awful for you! Great that you got out of that relationship. Hope things are good for you now.

I remember very well. I went into hospital for plastic surgery on my face, I had waited over 3 years to have it done. My ex husband had rearranged my nose, cheekbone and eye socket for me, for over 7 years he had used me as a punchbag, but this was the first time he had used his fists on my face. I had to be taken to hospital and was in for 3 weeks. I was extremely upset by how i looked afterwards, and thats how i got to go on the list for plastic surgery. However it gave me the courage to divorce him for cruelty. Plastic surgery wasnt as far advanced as it is these days, and was very painful afterwards, but it was worth having it, as i felt so much more normal when everything settled down.So all in all 1969 was quite a good year!

Living in Oxford....age 22....baby son born in February of that year. Remember the moon landing as he was teething and two tiny teeth appearing that morning. Beautiful hot weather and all the masses of "sweat peas" I had sown in bloom with a beautiful fragrance...I was thrilled as had never grown any flowers before that.

mcem Thank you so much for putting me right.
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Had gotten married at Easter, during second year of teacher training college, aged 21. Had a summer job as an accounting machine operator in a large factory office within walking distance of our first rented flat. No money for a holiday, no phone, no car, no tv and not much time to be out in the sun (NE Scotland!) happy with my lot though.

23 and got married as they landed on the moon. DH spent honeymoon night watching tv! We went along the Lot in France with A vintage car and very small tent for our honeymoon.

Just got engaged after meeting in February and married the following March. 47 years and he's still the love of my life!

Getting ready for our autumn wedding; working hard trying to climb the ladder at work. Seems so long ago now; still together 48 years later!

Living in Caracas, Venezuela at the time. Very happy times! My husband was working for IBM (first real job out of college) and I was a twenty two year old (stay at home) mom with a seven month old baby girl. The moon landing happened in July of that year and very soon many of our neighbors crowded into our apartment (flat) to watch. It soon turned into a big house party with lots of beer, guitar playing and dancing. Venezuelans are very warm, welcoming and happy by nature. Our (first born) daughter began walking in the fall of that year. We moved back to the US in 1978. In retrospect, I've had a good life despite the fact that all of us (including our daughter) have endured some very serious health problems and gone through some very rough times. The one constant is that I have been married to him (love of my life) for over 50 years!

As a footnote: It breaks my heart to see such a brutal regime and the carnage that is unfolding in that country. After all the 'hand wringing' and all the endless talks, the OAS voted to do nothing!

Wow Grannysue - what a party pooper!!
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Can I ask for views on this?
Been getting a lot of junk mail recently and a lot of it is for Funeral Plans.
The scary bit is that it appears that if you don't take out a plan now, when the time actually comes, it will cost an absolute fortune!
The inference is that it would be unaffordable.
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I was 6 . I can't remember much ?