No, not the song, but a look back at how things were in what some of us call ‘the good old days’.

Was there a time when you could sit on a bus or train and not hear the unwanted musical tones or ‘Oh no, it’s the wife’ blaring out from a Mobile Phone owned by someone who’s obviously under the dillusion that other people think it’s great, then spending ten minutes having a conversation with a fellow Member of the Darts Team or Sharon at the Office who’s re-arranging a busy diary to squeeze a Meeting in between a Golf Match or sixteen other Meetings about the sub-committee to decide upon the meeting?

Was there a time when you went to Town by Bus because there was a Bus which came close to your House and you were stared upon by 45 passengers if you didn’t give up your seat to the Senior Citizen with a walking stick. This was after you’d stood to one side to allow the Lady to board the first first even if it meant you losing a window seat?

Was there a time when you used to sit down in the evenings, enjoy a good book, listen to the Radio and maybe hand write a letter to a friend or member of the family instead of having 278 TV Channels to choose from and the capabilities of recording every one of them to watch in fear of that dreadful doomsday when there’s nothing you actually want to watch live?

The above maybe shows a now and then of 50 years or so and this springs a thought as to where we’ll be in another 50 and what my Grandchildren will be writing in their Blogs or Websites.

Will they look back at this decade with nostalgia in the same way I look back to the days of climbing trees pretending to be Robin Hood.

Will they be writing ‘Remember when we didn’t have ear implants and you had to have a mobile phone, bit like the one I saw on ebay for only £3,500 on Sunday’ or ‘Have you ever seen a Bus?’.
The list could be endless the way we are progressing, but I guess we are what we are in the minute period of time we’re here. Lord knows what it’ll be another 100 years. In the last 100 we’ve seen many conflicts, two world wars, the invention of TV, Radio, air travel and many other things which we now take for granted.

Is the future bleak? I suppose it is for those who are not going to be here, but for those just starting off, it’s a plethora of ambition and expectation.

I think I’m happy with my lot. I’ve seen a real before and after, I’ve been to the Shops with a ration book, I’ve lived in a House without a Fridge, TV or Telephone and I’m still here to tell the tale!

But I’ll make the most of whatever technology brings along and look forward to the day I get arrested fior throwing someone’s Mobile Phone out the Train window !

Read Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s in the main website. Other 30 pages of things some of us oldens may recall!