All the standard things that everyone cites as making them feel old, make me feel old. Seeing a lot of medical professionals really hammers home the ‘doctors are looking younger and younger’ one in particular. Same with police (although I’ve had less frequent contact with that profession, just to be clear). Anyway, alongside the getting old thing obviously comes the getting all nostalgic thing, and with that the unavoidable set of unfavourable comparisons with things-back-in-my-day.

I’m not 100% sure when ‘my day’ actually was, but it was great back then. And one of the greatest things about my day was the total impossibility of getting hold of the lyrics to any song, unless a) you bought a copy in the music section of WHSmith’s, and b) you were lucky enough to find the lyrics printed on the back of the record or on the cassette case insert. Otherwise, you had to record it off the radio (with a finger hovering over the stop button for the whole song as you tried to get as much of the song and as little of the DJ speaking over the end of it as possible), and then repeatedly play and rewind the difficult sections while you attempted to decipher them. And you could never quite be sure.

These days, you just google it.

The life lesson learned from inadvertently causing extreme hilarity at your own expense – usually in a large group setting – by singing the wrong lyric, loudly, to a universally popular song, is one today’s young people are sadly missing out on.

I won’t reveal which 1980s single had, and I remain convinced of this, the lyric ‘eyes like potatoes’.