Time flies

So, it's just on a year since my last post, sorry but you know the old expression about life throwing a curveball (never understood the curveball thing), such is life.
Tomorrow number one son will be 46 - yikes it's only ten years ago that he was born - or so it seems. Life has changed so much since Sion, Samantha and Timothy enriched our lives forever, spouses, grandchildren life ever-expanding. Such joy.
We were chatting about lousy television yesterday and it brought back memories of the stuff we loved. Marleze pointed out that there are hardly any T.V. programmes they can watch as a family, not so when our kids were young.
Magnum PI, McGuiver, Knightrider, The A Team, that helicopter pilot thingy and lots more, so much more good entertainment that would no doubt be considered silly by today's standards. But standards were set, honesty, the good guys winning, hard work, initiative and so on. What kind of example are any of the "sports" we see? Sledging on the cricket field - do they kiss their mothers with those lips? poor losers ganging up on the winner and stomping him to the ground in wrestling, it may be fake but it's still the wrong message.Doping, apparently across the board so what's the point in hard work if you can take a performance enhancer and whine about it when you're caught out?
In fact, nothing much has changed in a year so how do we bring about change? I honestly don't know but perhaps the best way is the old fashioned way, by example.
There are still so many people the world over who live good lives, who think of others, not in a do-gooder way but by actually doing good. Let them be the sportsmen and women of the future, let's see the banks endorsing them rather than golfers and rugby players. I know the banks do in fact support many but they don't brag about it the way they brag about sport sponsorship.
Let's not allow the media to manipulate us any longer, why watch junk on T.V. when you can read a book, carry on with a hobby or project and save T.V. time for the quality programmes we are occasionally shown.
Say BOO to big fat gypsey, home dinner, secret island tribe, worm eating, rib kicking, weight losing, spouse cheating, kinky soapie, gyrating soft porn music making people and say WELCOME BACK to life.
I'll try to pop in again soon xxx