Hard to believe that 1980 is now edging closer to 50 years ago (Say whaaat?) …surely, it’s only 20 right?!  The world is evolving faster

than Usain Bolt could run for a bus and while it seems the new norm that everything (as we know it now) is online, that sometimes the

best escape is to look back as to how we got here.

 

Advertising was a huge past time of our daily lives, and we didn’t really know it back then. These were either the moment you bolted for

the loo and snacks before your programme came back on, or you stayed and tried to memorise them and hoped that the one you loved

came on.

 

For me, I was a sit and watch kind of kid and LOVED them. From the iconic Guinness adverts (no wonder I love a pint or 6 now), to the

fairy liquid jingle, to that sexy Cadbury bunny (still surprising people today that she was voiced by the eccentric Miriam Margolyes) and

that creepy Judder man advert who wanted you to buy a bottle of icy lemon Metz over a Bacardi Breezer as your alcopop of choice. If

you liked a lotta chocolate on your biscuit or thought Frosties were Grrrrreat, then this might just be the website for you. My body might

be in the present day, but my nostalgic soaked brain lives happily in the past when it comes to most thinggs. Whenever I’m stressed

about life today, I always like to think about how the world is 4.5 billion years old and we somehow manage to exist at the same time as

Mr Blobby and Sunny Delight. Pretty lucky huh? I still remember the first time I ever saw a kit kat chunky in real life after seeing them on

the television, I nearly fell off my swing at the park it looked that huge, it was like being in ‘Honey I shrunk the kids’.

 

Let us snap, crackle and pop our way through the years together, see how many jingles and phone numbers we can still remember word

for word and what made us laugh the most.

 

There is a line Andy Bernard says in the US version of The Office at the end of the last series that always hits me deep in the feels – ‘I

wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them’. This is why nostalgia exists today and it’s our

job to keep it alive. Adverts were a part of most of us, and we did not even realise it.

 

When I first approached my idea to friends and family, the conversation that ensued was always positive, a fun jingle filled ride back in

time together as we all tried to think of our favourite ads.

 

So, from the iconic, the cheesy, the hard hitting and the catchy…Let’s look back, relax and remember ‘the good old days’ because things

that made us happy should never be forgotten.

 

 

              Take a look at the 'mini meggy' selection of nostalgic nuggets below