Do you know I was thinking – as I write this into the abyss – that there is something different about people born in the years preceding the second world war; they lived through something I have never experienced – especially those living in Britain.
During a certain period during the war the Germans sent bombers over to Britain and bombed the cities. Can you imagine that?
Bombs falling out of the sky, people running for shelter and streets of flames as the buildings burned. When you returned from the shelter to your home it probably wasn't there; there was a famous singer in London called Al Bowley who didn't go to the shelter and consequently died in an air raid.
Last week in Glasgow two men who were born then and presumably experienced the blitz robbed a store of two thousand pounds – that's around $3,000. That's the sort of thing young tearaways do when they start in their crime career not two men in their seventies. They say that the new fifty is seventy but this is ridiculous!
A few days later in La Jolla, in Southern California near San Diego, an older man, very smartly dressed, carrying and using an oxygen tank, walked into a bank and held it up; as far as I know he is still at large.
Does this give us all hope? Not that I want to start a career in crime but it means it's never too late to start something new; is there an event in the Olympic Games I should start training for?
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