Time trigger-happy hypocrites woke up

THEY do say that if you can remember the Sixties, you weren't there.

- VIRGINIA BLACKBURN

Well I was around in the Sixties and I can’t remember them, but the reason in my case was that I’d just been born and so hadn’t quite got round to the remembering phase.

But I can remember the Seventies and what an innocent time that was. Years later, I heard dark tales about shagpile carpets and wife-swapping (the two always seemed to be linked) but not where I was brought up, in the suburbs first of Chicago and then Manchester. It could not have been more above board.