John Williamson wrote
ARWadsworth wrote
Tim Streater wrote
ARWadsworth wrote

BBC2 tonight at 9.00pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01glsyl

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/04/the-70s.shtml

It might be of interest to some posters. I did say it was OT.

I count myself fortunate to have been living overseas for the whole of
the 70s. Looks like it was Britain's ****tiest decade ever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17703483

is where I got the link for the TV programmes from.

I am sure my Grandma once mentioned the 40's were worse than the 70's.

Unsurprising given WW2.

I unforget the 60s as being a time of looking forwards, then the 70s were
downhill all the way,

Not for me, I build my own house from scratch in the 70s,
doing almost all the work myself while working full time too.

except that I didn't notice much as I left home in '76,

I'd left home long before that.

before which it was Dad's problem, and the joys of floating living negated
the worst of the strikes in the last few years of the decade.

We didn't have anything like the same problem with strikes that you lot did.

Then of course, the 80s arrived... I had my longest ever period of
unemployment in '84. Six weeks of boredom and worry. Even the dog wasn't
happy.

Never had any unemployment myself.

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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John Williamson wrote
ARWadsworth wrote
Tim Streater wrote
ARWadsworth wrote

BBC2 tonight at 9.00pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01glsyl

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/04/the-70s.shtml

It might be of interest to some posters. I did say it was OT.

I count myself fortunate to have been living overseas for the whole of
the 70s. Looks like it was Britain's ****tiest decade ever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17703483

is where I got the link for the TV programmes from.

I am sure my Grandma once mentioned the 40's were worse than the 70's.

Unsurprising given WW2.

I unforget the 60s as being a time of looking forwards, then the 70s were
downhill all the way,

Not for me, I build my own house from scratch in the 70s,

Only one? Not a block of flats?
pfffffffffffft

doing almost all the work myself while working full time too.

except that I didn't notice much as I left home in '76,

I'd left home long before that.

Your parents must have been incandescent with happiness.


before which it was Dad's problem, and the joys of floating living
negated the worst of the strikes in the last few years of the decade.

We didn't have anything like the same problem with strikes that you lot
did.

Then of course, the 80s arrived... I had my longest ever period of
unemployment in '84. Six weeks of boredom and worry. Even the dog wasn't
happy.

Never had any unemployment myself.

Bull**** baffles brains.