Reflections by Bob Adams

We were born before television, before penicilin, polio shots, frozen foods, xerox, plastics, contact klenses, videos, DVDs, frisbees and the pill. Before credit cards, split atoms, laser beams, dishwashers, tumble dryers, electric blankets and air conditioners, and before man walked on the moon.

You got married first and then lived together. Fast food was what you ate at Lent and a crumpet we had for tea. We existed before house husbands, computer dating, dual careers and when sheltered accomodation was when you waited for a bus!

Before day care centres, group homes and disposable nappies. You never heard of FM radio, electic typewriters, artificial hearing earrings. A chip was either a fried potato of a piece of wood, hardware meant nuts and bolts and software wasn’t a word.
Make in Japan meant Junk. Pizzas, MacDonalds, KFC, instant coffee, unheard of. Cigerette smoking was fashionable, grass was mown and coke was kept in a coal house. A joint was a piece of meat you had on Sunday and pot was something you cooked in.
Eldorado was an ice cream, a gay person was the life and soul of the party, aids meant beauty treatment or help for someone in trouble.

The way the world has changed, but we have survived. Will follow on generations be as tough?