Oh yes, the ladybirds - I remember being on holiday in Weston-super-Mare that year and seeing them everywhere! And the heatwave/drought, in fact whenever I hear the phrase 'long hot summer' it takes me back to 1976. I think I was a bit older when I got into SF, I was certainly past the stage of kids' books and reading adult novels by then (I don't remember there being anything like 'young adult' fiction back then, apart from a few US imports which were all about biker gangs). I remember buying a book on astrology, which my mother disapproved of intensely, and I read a lot of stuff on earth mysteries, stone circles etc. I had most of the Janet and Colin Bord books - Mysterious Britain and the two follow-ups.
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Date: 2008-11-05 09:55 pm (UTC)I think I was a bit older when I got into SF, I was certainly past the stage of kids' books and reading adult novels by then (I don't remember there being anything like 'young adult' fiction back then, apart from a few US imports which were all about biker gangs). I remember buying a book on astrology, which my mother disapproved of intensely, and I read a lot of stuff on earth mysteries, stone circles etc. I had most of the Janet and Colin Bord books - Mysterious Britain and the two follow-ups.