Well knock me down with a feather, Parliament has actually passed something that:

1. I agree with
2. Most of the rest of the country agrees with

What!? I hear you exclaim. Yes, it's true. In the midst of ignoring the country at large and taking away a large number of freedoms (not least, the freedom to leave the country without paying several hundred quid to deposit vast amounts of your information onto a honeypot for identity fraudsters), Parliament has agreed to bring Englandshire into line with the rest of these islands (and increasing areas of Europe) and ban smoking in public places.

Writing this on my PDA, sat in a restaurant in Oxford.

What generation am I? I can see a family sat opposite: ma, pa + 3 daughters. The parent look, what, late 40s or so. The kids look like they've just finished their GCSEs, the A-levels + their 1st degree.

Both parents and daughters seem like my generation to me.

Similarly, I had a conversation today with a member of client staff. His daughter has just done A-levels and is going to Cambridge. She's doing science but also has a strong musical talent - sounds like me 15 years ago. He was looking for advice from me, but both as a contemporary of his and as one of hers.

Confused? I was.

But it's been the same when I've been in Edinburgh for, I don't know - 10 years now. The new crop of Freshers due into Edinburgh this October will mostly have been born in 1985. When I was a (20 year old) Fresher, they weren't even at Infant School...