[Big Joe]

A lot of things are better but for my money a lot of things are much worse. One of my grandsons spends so much time on a game console he looks like a vampire. Sunlight would kill him. At his age I was in the scouts (Christ Church ) and like most of our generation spent most of my waking hours outdoors. That why this country has more fat kids (Oo er I'm a fattist) Also I was fit and healthy, ate proper food, played a lot of sport which I loved, climbed trees, fell in Priestly Clough, built rope swings, skinned my knees, and had a good fun child hood. It was fun healthy and innocent. I thought Manuel Labour was a Mexican bandit and Wan King was a city in China. Not so today. As for the generation that brought them up well unfortunately a lot of government establishments were staffed/infiltrated by key people in the 60's and 70's who had a very nanny state approach to raising kids and that under His Tonyness only got worse. This is a great country but sadly it is the worst for being a nanny state where you can do wrong and the first thing that happens is their is a queue of people lining up to tell you its not your fault someone else is to blame and while were at it have some compensation. Anyway have to go back tu shoe box in road.