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I've just been watching the Brits with my 13 year old niece and God do I feel old now! She didn't have a clue who Jarvis Cocker was! Jarvis Cocker! And as far as she was concerned Take That are a new band not a bunch of revitalised former has-beens. She was asking me when they had first been together so I'm telling her "Well they were first famous in about 1993 I think" when I realise that that was the year she was born! It seems like yesterday! In fact I can vividly remember the day they broke up because we went to a barbecue at the nutters across the road and the wife nutter was going on about poor Gary. And then when Oasis comes on she (niece, not nutter wife)says "Oasis have been around for forever haven't they?" while I weep silently at how old I am. The horrible truth is that I can just about with a huge effort remember some of what it felt like to be 17ish but I really, really have forgotten what 13 was like. I have no trouble accepting that my 5 year old is a clean slate and knows nothing of the past but I kind of thought of my niece as a miniadult now. Hey ho.