Setting the Theme

I am new to all this blogging so pardon me if I break any conventions. I am also of an age that is not too sensitive to being PC. If I cause offence, just take a deep breath and remember that free speech has its rights and obligations. There will be no calls for hellfire and damnation to any section of the community. No incitement to riot, strike civil commotion, war, declared or not, usurpation, armed insurrection or any of that violent stuff. I am Dave, I am 74 years old and have lived through some dramatic changes in technology, social mores, human rights and stuff. Obligations seem to have been marginalised in all these rights and these I may point out as I ramble on. My main reason for becoming a blogger is to try and recall those so called halcyon days of post war, Second War, that is, East London. Those days when land lines were as rare as they are becoming now. When TVs were contained in things the size of a modern fridge and in black and white only.  Screens were between...