THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN AND A PHEV

Yesterday I was late middle age, today I am elderly!

Wonderful presents including an Ancestry DNA test from the children - do they doubt my parentage? It will be interesting to see -     Anglo-Saxon, Scots, Manx, Viking, other dubious genes etc!

First let's get that referendum out of the way - our feet are shot, but the EU must bear some of the responsibility for the result. Their determination to give David Cameron nothing much, especially on immigration, was a catalyst for the result - if he had come back with more then - ?

Anyway -

1. The Irish had a second go and reversed their decision. 2. The referendum is only advisory so the result could be ignored. 3. An election could be called on the result. 4. Dumfries and Galloway is a lovely part of the world.

To more important matters - RAIN!

First the cloud over Morecambe Bay

Then the rain

And finally the overflow from the gutters.

To gardening - the top banking is mown, the strawberries are mouldy, the swallows are busy feeding young.

Though it feels like ten score years and three at times!

Come the old birthday and I have timed my new car perfectly - to collect on the day - like me a hybrid!

So here I am - hard to believe that the first pic and the final one are of the same person - perhaps they're not, perhaps they are of someone else. 

Baby

 Infant

 Child

Adolescent 

Sideburns

 Chubby

More chubby

Proud Dad

Senile but got here!

(Nice socks!)
 

And this is the person who has kept me sort of sane all these years.  
 

Sort of.