With all those whining about getting up early, it shows our age, and also proves that we are survivors;
We are Survivors
We were born before the TV age, before polio shots, plastics, contact lenses, frisbees and the pill.
We were before refrigerators, tumble dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, credit cards, ballpoint pens and before man walked on the moon.
We got married first and then lived together. How quant can you be?
In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of". Bunnies were small rabbits and dishes were for washing not for receiving programs from outer space. Designer Jeans were scheming girls, and having a meaningful relationships meant getting along well with your cousins.
We thought fast food was what you ate during Lent and cold turkey was what you ate on Boxing Day.
We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers and commuter marriages.
Divorce was something that happened to film stars. We were before day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes.
We played with Dinky toys, wore liberty-bodices, and took a daily dose of cod liver oil and malt.
We drank Ovaltine, ate porridge, and listened to Dick Barton, the Goon Show, Workers' Playtime and Housewives's choice.
We had never heard of Radio1, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, word processors or yoghurt.
For us, time-sharing meant togetherness, not a Spanish holiday homes; a chip meant a piece of wood, hardware meant a shop where you bought hammers and nails, and software wasn't even a word!
In 1945 "Made in Japan" meant poor quality and the Koreans and Taiwanese hadn't even started production.
Pizzas, Macdonald's and instant coffee were unheard of.
We were born when everything in Woolworths cost one penny. For sixpence, you could take a tram ride, go to the cinema and buy an ice cream.
In our day cigarette smoking was fashionable, grass was mowed, coke was a cold drink and pot was something you cooked in.
Rock music was a lullaby and AIDS were for those with hearing difficulties.
We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes we discovered, but we were surely before the sex change; we made do with what we had, and we were the last generation to think you needed a husband to have a baby!
We typed letter with manual typewriters, did computations by hand, and used carbon paper to make copies.
We used telephones without buttons or dials and Fax was something you looked up in the encyclopaedia.
We did business with handshakes and trust and somehow it all worked and we survived....
