I m firmly of the view that everyone in the whole world should be obliged to wear a big lapel badge with their name on it and a potted biography. Perhaps that s something for the EU commissioners to take on board and pass as a decree. People s names aren t the only things causing a problem. Faces from years gone by put the brain cell to the test, too. I, though, might not have clapped eyes on them for 40 years or more.
Some people change dramatically as the decades roll by.
I m one of them. My wife isn t. She is clearly now the same girl I married in 1963, the girl on the wedding photographs. The face and figure haven t altered all that much. She comes from a family in which the women are blessed with a gene that keeps them looking young.