And now for something completely different. Let’s face it we all need a break from the constant doom and gloom and last night I went to watch a fantastic show “Dancing in the Streets”. This was Motown at it’s best and there was such a brilliantly diverse audience made up of every age range possible yet they all had one thing in common – for a couple of hours they were completely absorbed into the show and transported back to the 60′s. We had a group of teenagers sat behind us and it was just amazing listening to them, they thought they were brilliantly cool knowing the songs and they were amongst all these older people – I mean what did these old timers know about this music – well if anything optimised how to bring all age ranges together it was this show and society should take a note of this – when everyone started getting up dancing and singing these kids were genuinely amazed (albeit there were a few dad’s dancing at a wedding routine but guess what they couldn’t care less they were enjoying themselves) and went with the flow, you had to be there to see the theatre rock it was truly something special.

Now on the subject of perception of age – wait for this classic – you know what it’s like you’re in the office and someone starts a coversation about middle age and when this era starts. Well we had been saying that compared to our parents and grandparents middle age was something that happened a lot later these days – oh how wrong you can be – in walked my new admin assistant who has just turned 17 and when asked when middle age started she announced 30!!!