Half Thought...

Serial on BBC iPlayer, see The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As a wayward youth (and you can be assured I was suitably wayward), I once found myself walking back from London with a pal in the dead of night. We'd been 'celebrating' and were hitching because we'd missed the last train. We got picked up by an old guy in an Aston Martin who was smoking a spliff. In all other respects he was unremarkable - friendly enough, took us up the road and dropped us near enough to our respective homes, which was kind of him.

But it did rather leave me wondering how unfair was a world where you had to be that age to own a car like that, when clearly it was a car more suited to someone my age.

I was reminded of this the other night purely because a load of programmes Sarah had downloaded from the BBC's iPlayer timed out before either of us had time to view them. And yet The Niece From Hell is jacked into iPlayer 24x7. She's got all the time in the world to consume content and wastes none of it getting about the business of being perma-connected.

It's not fair. Why don't I have all the time in the world to consume content and she does? Come to think of it, how come I don't have an Aston Martin, either...