The Times They Are A-Changin

On Saturday, we attended Highflyer's niece's wedding in Germany. It was a lovely event in glorious weather on the longest day of the year: a welcome distraction from concerning news on the home front. In fact it was the first wedding I attended as a guest since before the pandemic. The last wedding I had been to was my own, almost 3 years ago now. The bride was 31, so more than 2 decades younger than us. Family aside, most guests were the couple's age and thus many of them had babies and toddlers with them. I remember when I was in my early thirties, there were sometimes several weddings to attend in one "season". While back then, first (proper) jobs, pregnancies and babies were hot topics, these days my generation doesn't get invited to that many weddings anymore and our topics tend to center around illnesses (both our own and our ageing parents'), children who have flown the nest or are about to and sometimes also about things we don't understand about "the young generation", such as their (lack of) commitment to work or their OTT political correctness. I guess as long as we don't embrace sensible mum haircuts and beige polyester clothes we still have some way to go until officially entering boring old fart territory.