Today Joe is 7! Amazing! Where did all that time go? Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the adult (my translation!)

If that is true, and from my experience of Seven Up at Uni and since, it can be partly,so the world needs to prepare itself for the entrance of Joseph Ryan of Gillingham!

Seven – its amazing to think time has passed massively. It’s even more amazing to think of the type of world that Joe has grown up in. Thankfully, he has never experienced a Tory government! Joe has never experienced the stress of moving house. He has grown up in a country which is fairly comfortable. Only recently has he started to worry about the safety of his family and friends who travel to London.

Joe has never experienced the joy of placing unscratched vinyl on to a turntable. He has never been without access to a computer, CD or a DVD player.
He has missed out on programs like Magic Roundabout, Clangers, Andy Pandy and Captain Pugwash and Joe Ninety. Maybe that is not such a bad idea!

Joe has grown in a world where there are no problems, just opportunities. This results in an honest ‘why’ when things can’t be done or do not seem to work. It will work and he will find another method to achieve his aim.

Seven years ago we held a little quiet ball in our hands at around 1030 am. Now we have a real person with clear ambitions and desires along with a fairly mature developed set of ideas and opinions : ‘Why can’t they just agree to change the rules to help people in Africa Dad’ was the comment after MPH and the recent summit. Sometimes it takes a child to see the simplicity!