Calling our politicians.

I will be 80 years of age this year and Sylvia will catch me up 6 months later. We knew the days when members of Parliament served the nation for free, as councillors did their constituents, glad of the honour to serve them and looked up to.

Nobody knows better than our generation that times have changed and we are in a different world now. The media keeps us up to date with it daily. We are too old to keep up with it all but not too old to enjoy the values which have served us well over all these years.

We get on with our lives, pay our way, try to keep healthy, and try not to worry about the things we have no power to change. We look forward every day to doing the things we need to do, then the things we want to do, such as a drink with our best man of 58 years Roy, and his wife, Majorie at the Walnut and talking to strangers anywhere we happen to be. We give ourselves medium term goals to look forward to, like trips and visits to family and friends and enjoying what Yorkshire provides all around. Long term; the telegram from the Queen who will be 102. That’s if the ship is still afloat.

Oh! almost forgot; we qualify for an extra 25p each a week after our 80th and it’s not means tested. If we save it for eight weeks We can have ourselves an extra drink, or sixteen weeks and we can buy drinks all round for the four of us.

GLORY BE! You have our most humble gratitude.