1976

[Cow1]

Abba sold six million singles of mamma mia in 1976.

I used to have a thing about the blonde in Abba.....



Although I wasn't so keen on his beard.

 

[glasshouse]

Saw a documentary about agneta the blonde.
What a girl . What a voice

 

[glasshouse]

What was the then and now price of wheat and fert?

Wheat £100
Fert £40

 

[Penmoel]

Wheat £100
Fert £40

Where did you get those figures???

 

[Alicecow]

Funny you should say that......


My friend then went on to tell me that I could be right and that he was sat in the pub recently with a group of his friends and that they all shared the same birthday within a very few days of each other, being around September 25th.

I burst out laughing because I'd quickly worked out that they must all have been conceived around Christmas 1976.

It had been raining for 3 months solid by then!

It's like that every September, ask any midwife or look at any school register! Probably includes late August and early October now due to office parties

 

[Derrick Hughes]

1976 farmers weekly wheat £70 ton milk 36 p gallon

 

[Lincsman]

I'm too young to remember it but wasn't the thing about 76 that 75 had also been very dry and that compounded things ?

Yes 1975 started with a late wettish spring, crops were not good that year, crops for 1976 harvest went in well and harvest started 3 to 5 weeks early, I was on the road with a P reg 1530 in early july before it was supposed to be! Harvest was a doddle and dad even had time for a holiday after, BUT the rain started in last week of sept and autumn drilling was a nightmare and didnt get completed.

 

[simmy_bull]

1976 seams to have ended this week in North Yorkshire. Thank goodness I was beginning to think the grass would never grow!!

 

[glasshouse]

Where did you get those figures???

memory

 

[Lincsman]

My friend then went on to tell me that I could be right and that he was sat in the pub recently with a group of his friends and that they all shared the same birthday within a very few days of each other, being around September 25th.

Best time to be born, oldest in the school year, makes a big difference at that age to be 6 years and 350 days old rather than 6 years and 2 days old