So, why have I created this blog? Well for a start I like the idea of being able to keep in touch with family and friends without having to see what animals they keep on the farm and how many fish they have in their aquariums etc. etc.

Also, with 67 years behind me and maybe fewer than 67 years ahead of me I realise that I have more memories in the bank than I am likely to create in the future.

When I was a lad there was no Radio One or pirate radio ships. If you didn't want to listen to the BBC Light Programme playing "Nellie The Elephant" by Mandy Miller or "How Much is That Doggie in The Window" by Diana Decker, then you had to look elsewhere for your music.

Rock and Roll was beginning to make an impression after the Skiffle craze and we youngsters, "Teenagers" hadn't been invented then, were listening to a little continental radio station to keep up to date with the latest music from America.

Radio Luxembourg was broadcasting commercial radio sponsored by the big record companies such as Capitol, Philips and Decca.

Their massive transmitters beamed our "pop" music to us on 208 metres medium wave which we were able to pick up on our tiny transistor radios.

These radios were very simple receivers which had six transistors, one waveband [MW ], a PP3 battery and a three inch speaker although there was a single earpiece as well because stereo radio had not yet arrived.

And so we tuned in to Luxembourg and listened to young Elvis, Pat Boone, Ricky Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Connie Francis, Brenda Lee as well as their British copiers such as Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde, Billy Fury and Cliff Richard.

In fact Cliff was perhaps the closest that we got to our own home grown rocker at that time.

It was the dawn of a new era for us young rockers and things would never be the same again.