I'm meandering again.

[eightyplus]

My mobility is now so limited that journeys outside the house are confined to the odd hospital appointment and my entertainment from the pleasure of a leather couch and a 65 inch television set of which I am unashamedly proud.

My eyes having become a further casualty over the years.

Not everyone will be as lucky as I have been.

A world war had been and gone, exciting goods were arriving in the shops, science fiction was becoming reality and yet we still find ourselves in an era of where people were still killing each other, as though the taking of human life was more important than saving one.

Why are some people so desperate for power while the rest of us just want to live?

And that craving desire for wealth when the majority of them coudn't spend what they already have, not if they lived a thousand lifetimes.

I remember coast lines sporting miles of beautiful beaches, the lushness of the jungle and

it's trees, the bushes and edible branches laden with fruit reaching out to the very ocean itself.

The poor tourist, today they have to pay for what I once had for free.

As for the real jungle and sandy beaches I can’t see any place for them in any future world of Hotel conglomerates and out of town shopping centres.

Gone like the Ironmonger with his boxes of nails and blacklead polish. The Baker, Butcher, Haberdasher, Lipton's, The Milk Bar, Home and Colonial, Vegetable, Hairdresser, Fishmonger, and many, many more.

There are still places like that left, just as there are people like myself who can reach out and feel the magic of having real memories on which to reflect and walk through, places of what once were part of my earthly paradise.

There is still so much to see, even for those with stamp sized gardens that have not yet been concreted over to make room for that second family car.

Perhaps the youngsters of today will still be happy in their old age, it is just that somehow I just can't visualise looking back on to the social media and feeling that it had been as important to me as seeing an English garden awakening to the warm spring sunshine.

Keep the faith good people, believe in tomorrow and stay positive.