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?

[GetOverIt]

I will not go to bed Mistress !

Ps Enjoying sharing your crayons !

[B00]

I remember summer '76.

I used to get rollockings off my mum for playing out and getting melted tar (from the cobbled back street) on my clothes

[warpig3]

You shall go to bed, you shall be spanked and you shall wear you superman jammies. I have spoken, now get up them stairs!

[Joe_the_Lion]

Oh Booster Girl, you mucky little pup.

I bet when your mummy finished shouting, she gave you a FAB iced lolly from the freezer!!!

[warpig3]

Fab ice lollies Joe, huh, ours were home made with orange squash!!!!!

[B00]

Narrr, was always lemonade ones from corner shop :-)

And corrrr, warpig, you sound quite scary there!

[GetOverIt]

Okay - I've drawn my VERY SCARY teletubby -now I'm going to bed - Goodnight !

[warpig3]

LOL B00, long story!

[bigmamma]

I do remember '76 but do not remember thinking oh its really hot . Does anyone know what temperature it hit ?
xxxxx

[Redbel]

I remember the summer of '76.... loved squishing the tarmac bubbles... :)))))..

[B00]

hehehe Red, I also distincly getting a rollocking off the woman who lived across from us, she'd just had her wall pebble-dashed, and I spent a memorable afternoon flicking out the little pebbles because the putty wouldnt set due to the heat. She went crazy and frogmarched me to my mum :-(

[Redbel]

B00 I'd forgotten about the tarmac until I read your post before...... great memories..... :))))))...... I also got a rollicking... lol

[bigmamma]

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID =1&subID=648&WT.srch=1

[bigmamma]

this is how hot it got .....:-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/understa nding/1976_drought.shtml

[GetOverIt]

Thanx for the link Bigmamma - everyone obsesses about Felicity Kendall - but for me the real dirty b1tch was Penelope Keith - she could plough my field any day !

[Redbel]

Lol getoverit......

[spudqueen]

I remember the summer of 76. The feeling of waking up every morning and looking out of the window and seeing a slight mist and knowing it was going to be another glorious day. I had a three week holiday in Wales and remember seeing a heat haze for the first time ever. I don't remember the invasion of ladybirds, though my friend remembers being bitten by them.

[Booldawg]

I remember they had posters everywhere depicting a superman type charachter catching a drip falling out of a tap in a bid to encourage people to save water. They had one up at school, I was 8 at the time.

[sense4all]

In deepest darkest Berkshire it was horribly hot. The heat haze every day, stand pipes, my Dad was a fireman so we were extra aware things were bad. The groung being rock hard if you fell over. My Mum didn't drive and we had a big day out planned but we all had to troop home when my sister got sun stroke waiting for the bus to turn up. It was grim I tell ya.I still hate the heat now.