My Daughter was given the above book the other day and it got me thinking there most be loads of word in it that would never have been in a child’s vocabulary when I was her age in the seventies. For example she will grow up in a world of “CD Players”, “Camcorders”, and “Computers”, I on the other had was expected to grow up in a world containing such strange concepts as “Record Players”, “Raleigh Choppers”, and “Miners”.

So many things have changed although some there are of course some thing are eerily similar.

In football we were both born during a season when Liverpool went on to win the European cup..

The reigning Pope’s died with in a year of each us being born.

But Politics is were the coincidences start to get scary.

We were both born under Labour governments (although the government of Jim Callaghan was socialist while Tony Blair’s is “I cant believe it’s not socialist”) .

One of us was born during when the leader of the free world was a man ridiculed as stupid country hick, whose Presidency was dogged by high petrol prices, conflict in Afghanistan, and latterly diplomatic tension in Iran. Wait a minute ….