Time, Families, Etc...

I was talking about time flying etc, last night with my cousin (while we were having a drink!) and he was saying that his father is amazed by the fact that he spoke to someone who was born in the year 1864 (his great-grandmother) and he's also spoke to his own great-grandaughter in 2008... a distance of 144 years... Fascinating stuff really when you get your head round it, I myself, remember my great-grandmother (born 1892) and she was always an old woman. But, in reality she hadn't always been an old woman.

I think that we can only relate to our own experiences and how we grew up, finding it hard to comprehend (whilst still knowing) that our own parents were once children as were their parents.

I'm currently tracing my family tree and find it amazing how families branch off and go down different routes, and how it's entirely possible that my own great-grandchildren (if there are any!) might not even now each other... and yet their grandparents are brothers and sisters... or even conversely my own brother's and sister's great-grandchildren may not know each other...

Certainly food for thought.. well for me anyway...

Time Flies...

I've noticed that as I get older, the faster that time appears to go by... Is it really over a year since I last wrote on here? Well, obviously it is as the dates will testify... I was sat thinking back earlier this week and remember myself and my best friend at the time remarking to each other (we were about eight or nine years old) that in the year 2000 we'll both be 36 years old, and it seemed a long , long way off, but here we are and we're EIGHT years PAST it...

I have cousins that are now GRANDPARENTS... hell, even my YOUNGER brother is a grandparent now... It doesnt seem two minutes ago that we were all new parents!!! My own eldest is 24 this year... TWENTY flamin FOUR!!!! Yet, inside I still feel like I did when I was younger... Obviously physically I look different, wrinkles appearing, hair pigment disappearing (leaving me with "silver" streaks), hair receding.. but other than that I'm still me...

Anyway, I'm gonna have to keep going with this now I've remembered where it is...