My featured image isn’t very good, but I think you’ll get the idea; it was a hastily snapped candid camera shot of four old girls meeting for a good old natter and a glass of wine.
I don’t know how old they are but they looked to be into their eighties and they were chatting away to each other, laughing and joking, confiding and sharing, and ordering more wine – just like any group of friends might. It struck me that these days the differences between young and old are more blurred and fuzzy than thy used to be. Age just doesn’t seem to matter as much any more.
I was most fortunate with my parents that we had great companionship; I won’t say they were my best friends as some children talk about their parents or parents about their children, because they were of a different generation with different experiences, but we loved being in each others company and had such fun together, and there were few things I could not talk to my parents about, and they were always very open with me, even at difficult times. However, I think I was very fortunate because many people of my age had very different relationships with their parents, much as they loved them.
My children’s friends call us by our first names, no formal Mr and Mrs; if we go out with them they seemed to enjoy our company as much as we enjoy theirs. When I was their age there wasn’t the same informality and friendship between most of us and our friends parents, as I mentioned, I was so lucky with my mum and dad!
The old ladies I took the photo of were probably born in the 1930’s, so they would have been only in their twenties when rock and roll started… Do you think rock and roll is the key?
Lois Elsden 
Rock and Roll broke the mold and gave us freedom and distanced us from past norms. Rap music stinks!
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