I was 'mad' on Space when I was a kid. Had all the Airfix models, loved James Burke and always asked for Space annuals for Christmas. I can even remember making a papier-mâché moon surface on which to plonk my Lunar Module when I was about ten. What exciting times they were, and yet how quickly it all fizzled out again after Apollo 17. So how wonderful it was to watch the Artemis 2 rocket blast off last night, even if it was equally astonishing to think that I haven't watched a 'Moon shot' launch like that for an unbelievable fifty-four years ..
We bought a Laburnum the other day, a tree which, according to the label, will reach its full height in fifteen years. In fifteen years I'll be eighty years old. I just hope the time doesn't fly as quickly as it has since 1972 ..
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