Long away and far ago, in the galaxy of my childhood, in a space-time continuum that has ceased to be:
- Nothing was impossible,
- Banks were known to handle cash,
- customers were always right,
- shop-keepers thanked you for your custom,
- restaurants were happy for you to eat and dawdle,
- the milkman brought the cow around every morning and evening to be milked,
- coffee beans were roasted and ground every morning for the day’s consumption,
- if it wasn’t raining it was hot,
- if it wasn’t snowing it was cold,
- ice cream and chocolate bars came once a week,
- cakes were for birthdays,
- a girl could be a tomboy and remain a girl,
- scientists were skeptical,
- the postman was always on time,
- extreme weather was just extreme weather,
- newspapers told the truth, and
- everything was possible