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It Was Not So....
Oct. 27th, 2025 08:02 am Something I try to avoid is going off on old geezer rants about how much better things were when I was a lad, but the temptation is there....
Childcare for instance. Now when I was a child etc, etc.....
No, I may sometimes succumb in conversation, but when I'm writing a post I have time to take thought and shut myself down.
Back in the day thre was a one-man show called Brief Lives in which Roy Dotrice, then quite young, slapped on the old man makeup to play the antiquarian John Aubrey and give us anedotes about famous people from Aubrey's book of the same name. The piece was set in the reign of Charles II and Aubrey had a memory that went way, way back. As the curtain fell, Aubrey, surrounded by his manuscripts, fell asleep in his chair- or possibly drew his final breaths- muttering, "It was not so in good Queen Bess's time...."
Childcare for instance. Now when I was a child etc, etc.....
No, I may sometimes succumb in conversation, but when I'm writing a post I have time to take thought and shut myself down.
Back in the day thre was a one-man show called Brief Lives in which Roy Dotrice, then quite young, slapped on the old man makeup to play the antiquarian John Aubrey and give us anedotes about famous people from Aubrey's book of the same name. The piece was set in the reign of Charles II and Aubrey had a memory that went way, way back. As the curtain fell, Aubrey, surrounded by his manuscripts, fell asleep in his chair- or possibly drew his final breaths- muttering, "It was not so in good Queen Bess's time...."
