This talk is about my memories of growing up in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s. This was back in a time when we wore shoes in the winter but most of the summer we went around in bare feet. Computers, X-Boxes and mobile phones did not exist. We did have a landline telephone in our house, but we used it infrequently as calls were expensive. We spent most of our time outdoors in the daytime and in the evening we all sat around our black and white television set. No arguments about which TV show to watch as there was only one channel. Our favourite programs were American cowboy films like “Bonanza”. Our mother liked to watch the musical called “The Back & White Minstrel Show”. We all liked watching “Coronation Street”. The most popular hobby was collecting postage stamps, each of which was a little window into a world away from New Zealand which we knew existed but none of us had ever been out of the country to see it. Education was free and only about 10% of students went on to university.

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