It must have been the year Jamie was born - Tom Jones was singing 'Why why why Delilah', and Mary Hopkin 'Those were the days'.

Cornwall, an old van - white sand and clear blue skies, singing in the pub in the evenings, sleeping on a lilo on the floor in a village school, trying to avoid sun stroke during the day and watching the surfers chasing waves to ride, then gliding back towards the beach - or falling off their boards.

I was doing work on the impact of the Torrey Canyon disaster on the coastal ecosystem, an oil supertanker went aground on the Seven Stones and spilt crude oil - 120,000 tonnes of it, in 1967 - March I think.

Oh yes - those were the days.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: