Side Bar On The Royal Baby

[sp1814]

Just watching a news item, and no matter what your opinion on the royals and royal babies...

...doesn't it make you feel OLD???

It simply doesn't seem that long ago that I was watching Diana leave hospital with William in her arms...and now it's happening all over again.

Or is it just me?

[sp1814]

fredpuli43

I'm with you on that...!

In my first job (I started work in October 1985) we actually had a typing pool. If we needed to send a memo around the company, we had to dictate it using a dictaphone, which would be walked up to the pool. The memo was the typed and sent back to you for correction/approval.

You would send it back, and the the corrected version would come back to you. If it was okay, a yellow copy would go into one filing system, a red copy into a another, you woulda keep the green copy in your own personal folder, and the top copy would be submitted in a brown folder which would be walked around the office and signed off as each person read it.

All this would take about four days.

Today, if I need to relay a message...I type an email and send it to the department. Takes about 90 seconds on average.

[DaisyNonna]

Freeing up those young ladies to do what?

[pixie373]

I feel old too. I'm 39 and remember Diana coming out of the hospital with William. I'd thought this baby was called George? But apparently no official name yet.

[Jeza]

I'm 62 and feel it at times, but mentally I'm still 19. I'm not a royalist but not anti royal either. I remember getting up one Sunday morning back in 1997 to hear the news that Diana was dead. I didn't know her yet I was really upset, why, I still don't know to this day. Maybe it was that she was always in the news.

[tiggerblue10]

I was 11 when William was born and yes I do feel old now that you've mentioned it.

[zebo]

It depresses me that I'll not live to see him King, OH is more pessimistic, he reckons we may not see Charles King!

[paddywak]

On the subject of making you feel old on Saturday we went to a BBQ to celebrate my nieces youngest son's 16th birthday.It doesn't seem two minutes since me and my first girlfriend used to baby sit my niece and her twin brother.

[Spoonboy]

I'm already old...ish.

[jno]

I remember Charles' and Diana's wedding - also in lovely weather, which had been miserable for weeks up to the day before. We concluded God was a royalist. Though I must say putting a pregnant woman through the sort of heat we've been having recently was maybe a bit much.

I might just still be here when Prince X has his first child.

[pixie373]

I was in France when Charles and Diana got married. We were at a campsite and they put up a screen especially for it. Near hysteria there!

[boxtops]

sp - before your dates, but I was one of those young women in the typing pool.... the difficulties of typing up to 8 copies, with a pencil rubber eraser for mistakes (days pre-Tippex) and duplicating on a Gestetner machine, were legendary!

[craft1948]

We brought my mum round to our house to watch Charles' and Di's wedding as my mum only had a black and white TV.............

[starone]

I'm ancient, just had another birthday, seems like only yesterday I had the one before. Think I'll leave it at that before I get maudlin.

[douglas9401]

Good to see that recent events haven't led to introspection and faux surprise at the passage of time.
Maybe not living life through imaginary friends born to a life of privilege and wealth will give a better grasp of the temporal.

[Sparkles62]

You what?

Sorry , manners must have dozed off,

I beg your pardon Douglas....what are you wittering on about?

[emmie]

ah the gestetner machine, i once put a carbon paper on it to print out, left it for a few minutes to run, came back to find a whole ream of paper up the corridor, every place you could think it, the machine had jammed, i should have watched it...

[maggiebee]

OMG I'm positively ancient. I remember when Prince Edward was born!!

[AB Editor]

You're swerving dangerously close to: "Ageing? Shouldn't be allowed!" here SP :)

It's a few steps away from "back in my day..." and "during the war..."