It’s a very strange happening; you go to bed on the eve of your 60th. birthday feeling as bright as a button, no aches, no pains, just a few thoughts about the phone calls and cards you will be receiving to mark this momentus event.

Then, you wake up and a whole new world suddenly hits you. The body creeks as you get out of bed, a slight sense of vertigo which you get over by hanging on for dear life on the edge of the bed and make your way down the stairs.

It’s odd because only yesterday you used to run down. Oh well never mind, the postman will be here shortly with the sack loads of cards to brighten you up.

After a special 60th. birthday breakfast of bacon and eggs and after you’ve dug out all the bits from the gaps in your teeth which you swore weren’t there before, the Postman comes. Rushing to the door and falling over the Cat on the way because you didn’t see it, you bend down to pick up your three cards. Well, actually it’s only two, the third one turns out to be a Electricity Bill, but the red ink disguised it.

Opening the cards you find some comforting words like ‘Happy birthday you old Git’ and ‘Sending you a Glass for your teeth next week’. But you see the funny side, switch on the TV and wait for the phone calls to come. After Homes under the Hammer, two repeats of Cash in the Attic and Flog, you realise you’re not going to get one.

By about 4pm, you start feeling funny ‘twinges’ in your head. It’s hard to describe it, but you suddenly find yourself moaning about anything and anyone; “Why’s the Newsreader got a Welsh accent”, “What sort of time to put that programme on”, “Why can’t that person outside learn to drive a car rather than aiming it”.

Yeap, you’ve become a miserable old Git and you’re over 60.

But - is that not altogether true - no it isn’t. Not only do you get your Bus Pass, Winter Fuel Allowance and free Prescriptions, you suddenly find a whole new life starting up. In some ways it’s like re-birth, but with a few aches thrown in.

Being 60 plus is just the beginning. Sure you haven’t got the time left you did at 20, but nows pay back time. Get out there and rule the world. If we spend too much time worrying about the future, we won’t have time to enjoy ourselves now.

Let’s show them !!