It is my birthday on Thursday (yes I know your card is in the post)

Well I am not getting any younger. Hang on that is the most pathetically stupid comment people utter on their birthdays. Every single person since the dawn of time has got older at the time of each birthday (with the exception of Cliff Richard) However I am now at an age that all I want for my next birthday is to be alive (and I don't mean wear a tramps vest). I am not afraid of my age, I embrace the fact that youth was wasted on me, and should be given to someone who might appreciate it more than me. So here I am currently half way to 90, currently single (but open to a sense of changeability on that score) and sharing my birthday with the Queen (the royal, and not a casual gay friend). Anyway these are the things I have to be grateful for as I reach my advancing years
1) I can still use the toilet without any help
2) I do not need a Thora Hird stair lift to get me to bed (I do however live in a Bungalow)
3) I can listen to the Bee Gees
4) 50 is starting to sound spookily young
5) I am still the last baby year that remembers England winning the World Cup
6) I still have all my own hair
7) I can read a book on the sofa and this is considered as normal (for a man of my age)
8) I actually remember what Dave Lee Travis actually looked like
9) I have lived through 12 World cups, 44 FA cups, and 1 monarch.
10) I have 50% of my Facebook friends who are 20 years younger than me (I should never have taught them)

Do not mock me, because in a 120 years we will all be dead and no-one will care that I am 165 and you are only 141. So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Peter Pan