summer of 76 … I came to London for the weekend. And I’m still here!
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Blimey Ralph that would be hard to forget…glad you survived
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Spent most of it in the largest urban park in the UK, brimming with the fairer sex, managed to dodge work to immerse in the ambience.
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Thanks Summer. As I was off school (I was only 9 years old at the time) I was playing outside in the sunshine chasing insects and digging for worms in the compost heap. I was living my best life but the doctors said it was likely that a fly had landed on an open wound and that’s how the infection had started. I think it was a bit of insect karma and they were getting payback. 🪰😂
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I think I was about 8 or 9, and remember the ground being too hot to stand on. Even sandals stuck themselves to the pavement. I heard about frying an egg on a car bonnet, tried it and got into trouble 
I lived near a beach at the time and learned to swim in the sea (with armbands on). Magical times indeed 
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It’s weird, but I remember nothing at all about 1976 other than vaguely recalling it was hot. I must have had a boring year!
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I don’t remember anything unusual either Tachyon, I don’t think it was boring else I would have remembered that… 
I posted this to jog my memory…
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I do remember there being a standpipe in the street at some point due to a water shortage. I suppose it must have been that year.
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We went on a bus from Glam to Northants and all the fields we saw were brown.
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I was only 9 at the time so I don’t remember but my parents have always talked about it, my dad remembers he had seen yellow grass for the first time in our local park.
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About the only thing I remember about that year was, I got my driver’s license, got my first part time job and the bicentennial.
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Cricket was good.
Saw loads!
Outfields were parched and some rugby clubs couldn’t play at home in September because their pitches were rock hard and brown!
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Great year, unforgettable time. I was finally discharged from the army and had a whale of a time.
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Yes…remember how it was… I had not Peaked at 28 but felt the big I am!
One 8 year old and Two 7 year olds …nightmares all of them!
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Dianne, it must have felt like you had little triplets to deal with, seeing as you gave birth just one year apart 
I can imagine all those nappies when they were little (you probably didn’t have the disposable ones) , my two kids have 23 months’ difference between them, I remember at least a six-month period of having them both in nappies, but luckily disposables were already in full swing, in mid-late 90s.
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Bath with a friend year.Bath water used to water the garden and flush toilet. Tent was put up in the garden because the house was too hot for sleeping.
We had a Minister of Drought who became Minister of Floods later in the year
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Last customer’s house visit of the day. Take the shirt and shoes off to drive home.
Dried up lakes.
Everyone suntanned.
Sleep on a sleeping bag outside.
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Mine have 14 months between them…no idea what I was letting myself in for…
All turned out fine though, doing for two wasn’t any different than doing for one
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Me and my brothers are one year apart. 3 of us were born in the same week.
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Summer 1976 was great, but 2024 (or beyond) was the elephant in the room. 
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