Generations

Am getting all philosophical in my old age, gawd help us all..... I was looking at the gathering I attended on Sunday, where the ages ranged from 97 to 9 months and thought how good it was to be part of that chain.

My chain will stop with me, indirectly it will carry on with my nephew, but my chain has a definite end, which is a sobering thought. I have always maintained that I am more than happy with my self-inflicted childless state and mostly this is true, but sometimes small things bring you up a little short. Which reminds me of an incident earlier in the year.......

I try to be kind to the planet. When at a party, a Middle Class Mumsy friend of a friend commented, once we had gone through the inevitable 'no children? are you entirely sane?' conversation; 'I' she said 'Recycle and whathaveyou for my children, so they have a planet to live on, you don't have children, why do you do it?' I thought for a moment (whilst fighting the urge to smack the smug cow in the face with the glass in my hand) and said 'I truly believe that you get out what you put in, so if I am nice to the planet, it might just be nice to me' That floored her.

And on that bombshell.......

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