we feel old, we are old, we look old.....

Diane's absolutely right.

between us, we screwed up the biggest spontaneous movement to rise from the people of our islands until it is a laughable minority woffling endlessly on about a tradition that none of us inherited, singing songs in a style that might have happened two hundred years ago(but we're not quite sure) - dancing to music that makes a gulf a mile wide between us and the rest of society.

And some of us are having the temerity to tell the young that its US who make the ground rules.