Take A Chill Pill

The Letter C finds us jumping back in time to these...

Kids of today would not understand the relationship between these two items - The Pencil and The Cassette Tape. 

When your favourite MixTape got eaten up by your Sony Walkman, you opened it up, pulled out the cassette and the miles of tape that the Walkman "ate", you had to insert the pencil between the cogs in the holes and wind the tape back into the cassette manually. 

If you didn't have a pencil or a pen, you used your finger and tore all the skin of your Peter Pointer while doing it.  We often had to do this with our favourite Mix Tapes, because we played them over and over again and the tapes would get stretched.  It was your worst nightmare if you snapped the tape on your favourite U2 cassette.

Sometimes, we even used cellotape to rescue the poor thing.  It always left a muted section on your tape, but it was either that, or chuck the entire tape in the bin?!

Remember Cabbage Patch Kids with their very own Birth Certificate?

Care Bears.  Everyone had a favourite and we used to watched the TV Show every Saturday morning

 

The Cure are today's Retro band.  I used to love Robert Smith, but was always a wee bit put off my his messy hair and smudged red lipstick.  Good toonz though...

Where’s the Beef?

Welcome to the Letter B of this year's A to Z Blog Challenge.

Who remembers the TV series Beyond 2000? 

Here's an episode from 1987 taken from Betamax.  Remember Betamax? 

Yeah, well our wee family had the Phillips 2000 video recorder and we thought we were the shizzle!  

The Phillips VCR had fancy analogue double-sided tapes like audio tapes.  Twice the amount of recording time - Booyah!

The commercials an frikken epic. 



My retro musical feature for the letter B is the B-52's who had huge hits in the 80s like "Love Shack" and "Planet Claire".  They were pretty new wave and not everyone's cuppa tea.  This was my favourite song of theirs.

See you tomorrow for the letter C....

A is for Atari

Welcome to the very first day of the 2015 A to Z Blog Challenge. This was a very last minute decision to take part this year, as I haven't been regularly blogging for a while.  

I look forward to sharing my Nostalgic Retro Vintage posts with you and visit as many blogs as I can during April.

Atari means "to hit the target" in Japanese and is also the name of the corporate and brand name started in the year I was born, 1972. 

Nostalgic? 

I remember spending tons of my childhood hours jigglin those joysticks and fighting with my pals on who's turn it was next. 

Atari pioneered the 20c arcade games that we love and remember - PacMan and Space Invaders? These incredibly wealth guys, and probably quite dead by now, helped define the electronic entertainment industry from when I was born until the late 1980s

And now a step back in time to the year 1981 and a disco dance hit that we all wiggled out bums to.  Enjoy the totally bitchin' toon.


 

A to Z Blog Challenge Theme Reveal

This is a last minute decision to take part in the 2015 A to Z Blog Challenge. 

I haven't blogged in almost a year, so I thought this would be a brilliant way of getting back into the swing of things. 

I have done four previous A To Z Blog Challenges successfully, so I thought I'd give it another go just for old time's sake.

 And that, my Pretty Plonkers, is exactly what my Theme this year is going to be....Retro Nostalgia.

 


 Here are the hosts:

Arlee Bird @ Tossing it Out

Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh

Jeremy @ Hollywood Nuts

Nicole Ayers @ The Madlab Post

Author Stephen Tremp

Heather M. Gardner

AJ Lauer

Pam @ An Unconventional Librarian

Matthew MacNish @ The QQQE

Zalka Csenge Virág @ The Multicolored Diary

S. L. Hennessy @ Pensuasion

C. Lee McKenzie @ The Write Game

Joy Campbell @ The Character Depot

Susan Gourley @ Susan Says

John  Holton @The Sound of One Hand Typing

Lisa Buie-Collard, Author

Time in A Can

Oh I know, Plonkers, I haven't blogged for yonks, but I have still been reading blogs and lurking around. 

I've been back on the Dukan Diet and lost another 7.2kg, so I celebrated by doing a Batiste Dry Shampoo Product Review. 

I think 7 years worth of blogging will make you take a break and focus on other things for a while....

Like family, getting back into shape, running and starting to do regular 5km outdoor runs every Saturday morning... Oh I know, things have changed haven't they? 

I've also stopped smoking again (been almost 3 months) and back on the healthy eating wagon. 

I'll never be able to give up my wine though....Hey! A lass has to have at least ONE vice, right? 

It's either that or chocolate covered Toffee.