Everybody got to be somewhere. (Spike Milligan as Eccles)

Yes, everybody has got to be somewhere, and I'm in Gloucestershire on a dull May day working out how to do my first blog. I am well aware that everyone else in the world is blogging away, but I am a late developer, and if you don't go for that I plead insanity, M'lud.
My children, who are of course all computer literate like most of their generation, are a tremendous help with this fast moving technology, and I thank them for guiding their old Dad right now.
So, what am I going to blog about? As I am an 'oldie', and was born into a world very different from that of today, I have decided to describe my journey from a child's rural idyll to the complex world we all know now. However, as my blog title suggests, I have a meandering mind, which means I am hopeless on dates. I can remember incidents in my life, but ask me when they happened and I haven't a clue. So what follows is somewhat like a jigsaw. I'll give you the pieces, and you try to fit them together. I hope it will be fun.