This week Lunch Club paid host to some very special guests; four members of Rock Solid, MBC’s Youth Project who joined them for coffee, quizzes, several rounds of indoor curling and a delicious lunch.
I was lucky enough to be there, and I must say that what I saw took me back more than sixty years to when at the age of sixteen we, that’s the dozen or so of us that made up Tuesday night’s Crossroads youth club would host what in the mid 1960’s were rather patronising referred to as “old people’s parties.”
Yes, times have changed – in 1966 we would act out corny Christmas pantos, or, revive some war time spirit by leading our guests through a whole raft of patriotic songs by the likes of Vera Lynn, Gracie Fields and Flanagan and Allen. Today, however, and without the aid of Google, identifying the full names of a multitude of chocolate bars, and if you happen to have been drawn in the red team making sure you beat the blues at curling was our modern-day equivalent.
I’d like to think that our current young people will remember today with as much fondness as I and my friends still recall 1966.
Many thanks to Rachel, John and the whole Lunch Club team (including those in the kitchen), and thanks also to Adam and Val for helping to revive a great event. But above all thanks to those four youngsters who simply by being there reminded me so much of my youth.
God bless you all.
There is a gallery of pictures below, to view them simply click on the image.
