Eat My Shorts!

Happy Monday, Pretty Plonkers.

Today is the letter E for the 2015 A to Z Blog Challenge.

As you know my Nostalgic theme is two-part; the first part of the post will be something retro or vintage that I remember from my childhood, or something that I remember my mum and dad talking about or passing down to me.

Today's feature is ta-raaa - The Easy-Bake Oven.

What little girl in back in my time DIDN'T have an Easy Bake Oven? And let me tell you, if you didn't own one, you were cramping your fingers writing countless letters to Santa begging him to bring you one.  It was every wee lassie's dream.

Many hours were spent playing with the oven, but when your mixes and accessories ran out it was pretty much useless.

Today's nostalgic tune is the 80s duo of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart in the Eurythmics.  They had plenty hits but this one is pretty catchy.  Enjoy and sing along! 

Dirty Dancing, Duh!

Happy Easter Everyone!

So, if you haven't noticed yet, my Retro post names have been all retro or vintage slang..

I hope you're enjoying the challenge as much as I am.  I haven't been commenting as much as I'd want to because we're actually on holiday.  My family and I are enjoying a well-deserved beach holiday and I'm able to visit my mum and dad too.  Our internet signal isn't good at all, so I might not be posting again until Wednesday. 

It's great to see my folks, but I just wish they lived closer to me.  700km is really far to drive for a cuddle from yer Mum.

Back to the challenge....remember Patrick Swayze? 

The 80s dreamboat, who could wiggle his rear and be cool at the same time? Oh Yeah, Daddy-O! 

For you blokes....remember Jennifer Grey?...hot body, cute personality, but that schnos!?! 

Yeah, after she got the nose job, no one actually recognised her and no one gave her any other good film roles...poor thing.

I wanted to post a Depeche Mode song, but unfortunately I can't seem to access from our holiday destination :-(.

I will be back in the land of the Wi-Fi on Wednesday. 

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.