Not that old
Feb 7th, 2012 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Personal ColumnsDiscussion at the meeting turned to a cottage in need of repair. ‘The windows shouldn’t need that much attention, should they? They don’t appear to be that old’.
‘Oh, they are, Rector, they must have been put in around 1960′.
‘Thank you’, I smiled, ‘I was born in 1960; that is not old!’
‘Ah, Rector’, he said, ‘don’t worry. You’ve a while yet before you catch up with me’.
At least a generation older than me, fresh-faced and with a great head of wavy, white hair, he is still farming. …