woo-hoo!!

It’s my birthday today!

I’m 55.  I know, I know.  It’s hard to believe as I don’t look a day over 54….

Anyway, I started thinking that everyone around my age has lived through probably the most revolutionary and innovative period in the entire history of our planet.

Space flight, a man on the moon, mobile computing devices (you can’t really call them ‘phones any more can you), extreme miniaturisation, digital media, complete eradication of many diseases (and the emergence sadly of AIDS), the cold war, hot wars, nuclear armament and the campaign for its disarmament, digital satellite broadcasting, the millennium, the internet, exploring the depths of the oceans.... 

Just a small cross-section of the events my generation has witnessed.

our wonderful, beautiful home

When you look at it, we are a tiny, minuscule minority of the population of this planet that has ever existed and that has had the extreme privilege to have experienced so many special, momentous events and occurrences.   I’m glad I’ve been alive to see them all.  Well, most of them.

My mother always said I was “special”…..