Like so many others , I have made it through another week that seems to be exactly like the week before and the week to come ?? At what age does this state of mind kick in ? Is there a certain point in our lives where routine takes a hold and we all switch to autopilot ??

For me I think it was around the time I realised I was too old to be out on the town and going on drunken holidays with a group of lads, mainly because the group of lads wives and girlfriends would not not let them come out to play..lol..lol

I can remember when I was younger, we all used to laugh at the old guys ( in their thirties) out on the town drinking too much and chasing the girls while their wives where not around and thinking how sad they where (oldest swinger in town), never thinking at some point I would turn in to one of those guys.

I am glad to be able to report that I only ever made that mistake once and it was on my last "lads holiday" that life caught up with me. I remember it well, we were all sat on the beach drinking, I was on a twenties holiday with a bunch of good friends and various girls and guys on the same holiday. Drink being what it is we started playing silly question games where you had to tell the truth !? One question was "how old you really were". Well my friends had the sense to lie slightly but I did not and answered honestly where upon a young girl sitting next to me laughed and announced I was only a couple of years younger than her Mum !! Drunk as I was the penny dropped big time. ( I was 32 the young girl was 17 )

In my defence, we always went on such holidays as a group of lads as we knew we would be in hotels with others there to get drunk and party and not be in family hotel's where we would be too loud etc.

You know age is a very strange animal. Some of us get old before our time and others feel like Peter Pan all our lives. Even on my worst days I still think I am the same young man that could work and party 24/7 maybe its the single, no commitments life I have ?? who knows, maybe age is after all just state of mind controlled by responcibilities and commitments to others. People change when they have children or a house to pay for and as I have ranted about before, so many people today have to commit their lives and their age clock to work to make ends meet for those they have to care for.

I have to laugh when I catch myself wondering if the young Policeman I see in the street Mum know's he is out on his own? as I can still here the old saying "that you know you are getting old when the Policemen are looking too young".

Well I am 47 going on 18 in spirit if not in body ..lol..lol and you know, I can still out work most of the kids today if not out drink them anymore lol.(which is no bad thing)