Jubilee

I seem to have spent most of the Bank Holiday weekend watching people celebrating on television. Fortunately they were doing fairly interesting things such as waving flags and cheering wildly and trying to push their heads through the railings of Buckingham Palace. But it makes me think I ought to make more of an effort to get involved, so that one day it will be me waving a flag and cheering wildly and getting my head stuck in the railings of Buckingham Palace.

It is sobering to reflect on the past sixty years (or at least on the ones I can actually remember) - the changes that have taken place, the things that have stayed the same. 1952 seems a world away from the hyperactive society we now live in, where for all our technological advances we appear to be fairly useless at running even a modestly successful economy. I wasn't around sixty years ago; I think it's a fairly safe bet I won't be around in another sixty years. Rather puts things in perspective.