The festive season is all but over but i can't complain as i've had a wonderful Christmas with my family and consumed more seasonal treats than would a large herd of particularly ravenous elephants...and my wife politely informs me that recently, i've been snoring like them too.

To add to the general intake of merriment, food and drink, last night we went out for a wonderful family meal to celebrate the 21st birthday of our eldest son, Andrew, and it was all very nice indeed...everybody was looking magnificent on the night and strangely well-behaved too!

It only seems like yesterday that i was 21 myself and, in my head, i still feel like a youthful and often senseless whippersnapper but the evidence of the mirror and my own body tell me otherwise; i may not officially be a grumpy old codger just yet but i do find myself starting my sentences with In my day...an awful lot lately.

What disbelieving looks the boys give us these days when we gently warn them that they'll be 30 before they know it...a decade seems like absolute aeons when viewed through their young eyes but is gone in the blink of an eye to such primitive, prehistoric beasts as i.

Ten years ago seems like only yesterday and twenty seems like the day before...

I really don't know who did it or what happened but one minute i was revelling in the eighties and looking rather handsome (oh yes i was, damn you!) while the next i was saying goodbye to 2007 and seeing my 45th birthday only 6 months distant.

My better half, naturally, remains eternally young and beautiful, the years passing her by without leaving any effect at all. I'm sure that she'll still be in her early-thirties when i'm dilapidated and incurably incontinent while, for me, Old Father Time marches steadily onwards.
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