This is so true....

For all the kids who were born in the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's & 70's

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on Sky, no video tape movies or DVDs, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

New Start...

Thought it was time to start updating this a little more often than I used to.

Today I'm mostly trying to revise for an exam on Tuesday, whilst mildly panicking about the fact I haven't even started revising for my exam on Wednesday yet. The Tuesday one I think is the hardest exam I have, and the Wednesday one is a great lecturer who usually gives great marks even if you don't know what you're talking about - he's a sympathetic chap like that really.

I then have Thursday, Friday and Saturday to revise for the four I have next week... after that the panic should be over and I can start really working on my dissertation - which has been put so far down the bottom of my list of things to do that I think its starting to go mouldy.

I am desperate to start being much more adventurous with my cooking, so I'm going to Tesco in a bit to get the stuff I need to make Chunky Mediterranean Soup, Banana Butterscotch pudding and Cheese Fondue - all recipes I saw on a cookery programme yesterday.

I will try to take some pics of my creations and post them up here.

I've started going to the gym again so will probably use this as a kind of record of what I get up to there....