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Roxy Music reforms for a 50th Anniversary Tour.
And Paul McCartney, who turns 80 on June 18th, is the headline act for this year's Glastonbury festival.Roxy Music reforms for a 50th Anniversary Tour.
Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant’s outnumber your friends.When you're now the same age that your older and since departed friends and/or mentors were when you first met them.
At least it wasn't required that you go pantless.I remember an older friend smiling wryly and commenting on my realisation of moving from the stage in life where I was going to 30th and 21st birthday parties to 40ths. Now it's increasingly 50th parties - and, yes, the first couple of funerals. I've never felt so mortal as when a friend in our club died suddenly and unexpectedly having not long turned forty, just a few months older than me.
Yesterday, I walked past an advert for a "bottomless afternoon tea" in a local cocktail pub and was briefly excited, until I read on and realised it was bottomless Prosecco and cocktails, not tea and scones, and was very disappointed.
At least it wasn't required that you go pantless.
Somewhere in my brain are a few cells that are trying to maintain the notion that the most recent turn-of-the-century wasn't long ago. And then I remember that anyone born in 2000 is now old enough to legally drink anywhere in the U.S..You say to a kid who didn't understand something you said "It's OK, I'm not from this century," and it isn't a joke.
I remember going to my doctor just before she was about to go off on maternity leave, we saw her with her "baby" just recently. He was a strapping six foot 24 year old, what happened?Somewhere in my brain are a few cells that are trying to maintain the notion that the most recent turn-of-the-century wasn't long ago. And then I remember that anyone born in 2000 is now old enough to legally drink anywhere in the U.S..
I remember going to my doctor just before she was about to go off on maternity leave, we saw her with her "baby" just recently. He was a strapping six foot 24 year old, what happened?
It was when I mentioned this to Tina that she reminded me that I went from birth to marriage in twenty two years. She then gave that enigmatic smile of her's before saying: "Others do the same too, you know!"
I experience pretty much the same thing, which I why I clarify which turn-of-the-century I'm referring to. Ah the good old days, when everything was still in slightly fuzzy black and white.And that's another thing -- when somebody says "turn of the century" my automatic thoughts are of picture hats, walrus moustaches, the Floradora girls, and William McKinley.