A new Decade!

Time for the Captains Drive in this Sunday and I suddenly realised that this will be not only the first game of the year, but of the new decade!

Where have the noughties gone?

It's also my Birthday next week as well and quite alarmingly, this going to be my 6th Decade! The sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, Noughties and what ever we will call this decade. I guess it starts as the tennies and then turns to the teenies!

Scary, an no, I am not therefor 60!!!

But the passing of another decade calls for a bit of a reflection of the passing of previous decades.

1969 was quite an eventful time, with Neil Armstrong having been the first man to land on the moon in July of that year, but nearer to home, whilst we were celebrating New Years Eve at friends of my parents, my paternal grandmother had died. So New Years Eve has always had a negative connotation, especially for my father.

So the passing into the 70's was not an easy one for me, even at the age of 8. (or nearly Nine as my Birthday is on the 7th January)

Contrast that with 1979 and I've been working for just over a year, spent the latter part of the 70's working and living in London and just passed my driving test!!!  We've seen the advent and then development of Punk Music and things are looking up. Especially for an 18 year old with wheels! Unfortunatley, on Christmas Eve of 1979, I was working a night shift!!! But little did we know what was ahead of us in the EIGHTIES!

Come the end of the 80's and in 1989 we see the demise of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall and on New Years Eve we sit down in the early hours of 1990 to watch the BBC Music of the 80's which went through all of the hits and stars of the eighties, from New Wave, New Romantics, Mod/Two Tone, through to the dance scene, hip hop and garage. The Police, Dire Straits, Madonna.

And who do yhey finally decide was the star of the 80's? 

PRINCE!

So we managed to survive the 90's, moving "Up North" at the start of the decade and as we came to the end of the decade, Century and Indeed the Millenium, we had also started a family! Quite a big decade I guess.

As we came to the end of the Millenium, working in IT obviously meant we were involved in the infamous, but damp squib that was the Millenium Bug. We earned a considerable amount of on-call overtime and had a street party to see the Millenium in!

Oh what fun there was watching the Millenium Bug Watch with Jon Snow, Gaby Roslin and Desmond Lynam as they watched the millenium kick off around the differrent time zones and report on planes falling out of the skies and nuclear reactors blowing up.......Nothing!!!

So we head for the new decade, hoping for a more prosperous year next year,a new fresh decade, but as far as I can see, it's no different to the start of a new second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year etc.

Mind you, I reckon that first Drive of the Decade is going to be over 300 yards! (Not the normal 190!!!)