[garinda]

Does time speed up as you get older?

On a recent sleepless night, I realised I'm half way between seventeen and the state pensionable age of sixty five.

I can remember everything I did aged seventeen.

I passed my driving test, and my A-levels. I remember what clothes I had, where we went on holiday, what records I played, the times of the buses I had to catch to and from college. I can even remember who had bread ordered on Saturday mornings at my partime job, and who prefered pale or well done loaves. I spent the summer working in Cornwall for a Dutch lesbian aristocrat, and can even rhyme off the names of all of her animals.

In fact it seems just like yesterday not twenty four years ago.

All this sleepless mathematics started because I was remembering how I used to sit in church as a child, and work out the age of the hymn writers. John Wesley (1703-1791), therefore he was eighty eight.

So at the end of this ramble two questions, as anything happened to make you feel your age, and does time speed up the more we travel further down this mortal coil?

Is that why children very often add quarter years to their age, because time seems to pass so slowly when you are just starting out in life? ie: 'I'm seven and three quarters'