looking back

Sarah and I were having a good clearout today of the cupboard under the stairs, that cupboard where old toys and the detritus of our lives gets shoved out of sight in case it might be needed one day...

We found a packet of photographs which D had kept from the year before I met him (1979) and these provided a lot of hilarity over tea tonight. It's hard to believe that your parents were ever young and silly (rather than old and silly!). Here was Dad at university, aged 20, fooling around with his mates. I could almost hear the soundtrack....