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Tempus fugit

Time flies when you are having fun... but in fact I find time just flies... As Dr Fred often says - Time marches on - I suppose those moments in the dentists chair go a bit slower but fortunately I don't spend too much time in that situation... (actually that's not true - I've had a dreadful time with my teeth this year but that's a boring story)

I wonder how many people can relate to this.... Just recently I find myself more and more slipping into my, or hopefully somebody elses dotage, as I'm having quite a few conversations with similar aged friends about how recent the millennium was - and then we all realise it was nearly 17 years ago!!!  I played a 'recent'  album the other day - again to realise it was new in my, and probably the artist's, scheme of things - though probably one of the last ten cd's I ever bought but that was in 2004..... well at least I'm in this century!  

Leeds Poly Disco 1975?
If we are lucky we can live several different lives in our allotted time on the planet -  I'm obviously turning into an old git - classic - In my day you could get a three beers for a quid... Double Diamond, FForde Green Leeds 1975 - can't quite work out why that can sometimes feels so recent but is in fact over 40 years ago - definitely a different lifetime... I found a ancient 1975 Poly Disco badge lurking in some junk the other week - saturday nights at Leed Polytechnic disco every week - Silver machine, Layla and Virginia Plain all segued into one track - proper dj mixing like... later when married - yet another lifetime - with a full time job and two small children  I studied part time at Leeds Poly but it had just changed to the Leeds Metropolitan University and they got very cross if you refered to it as the poly - I still call it the poly... then there's Glastonbury - I'm sure I went to Glasto when it was free!!! was it ever free?  and those are just the recent early years!!!  

Intervening years have been kind to me - lots more festivals, lots of adventures, lots of travel, gathering wisdom and experiences - but was it really over 15 years since I visited South America - probably not much point in recommending good restaurants to friends visiting this year...  

Family portrait circa 1993 fabric collage with everything added!!
My eldest child turned 31 this year - how is that so - I'm only 32!!! - I wish ( or do I?).  My baby has two babies of her own now!!  I was pregnant with her on my 30th birthday, we had a party -  seems like last year -  I wore an orange and pink (vintage then) silk cocktail dress,  I remember meeting a chap a good friend went on to marry - seems like they've been wed about ten years... they must be celebrating almost 30 years of marriage soon -

Another friend recently got a dog, she is visiting in a couple of weeks, bringing said dog...  but she assures me the dog will behave as at 12 years old he is quieter and settled!!! 12 years since he jumped on my head and sneezed all over me in a B&B in Scarborough!!!!

I am lucky - my various lives have been mostly good and fulfilling, so many lifetimes so many exploits, so many friends, new and old, and our family is growing all the time - as are adventures and experiences - not sure about wisdom but so much to do and so little time - I need a time machine.......
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