Now that's what i call school disco!

You go through life remining yourself how young and maybe how virile you are (ladies!).

Neither of the above are helped by a son who's almost 12 and therefore a tiny tiny bit more than a year away from being a teenager...which is basically a re-enactment of the terrible twos only vertically (-ish sometimes) rather than horizontally!

I have a son of about that certain age and its like having the antithesis of the Dorien Gray portrait in the attic! As a man resolute on living life backwards and getting younger by the day, I find the opposite happening...I really am turning into a grumpy old cunt!

Picture the scene, friday night picking the lad up from a school disco he'd been invited to by a girl (go on, get in my son!!!!). I park up, text him, his phone's switched off so i wait...well actually I walked outside the school gate smoked a cigarette and then went back to wait...i'm only human and it clearly said you can't smoke on the school premises...besides, I'm way to old for detentions! Anyway I went back and waited a bit longer with the sounds of the school disco ambling through the night.

And then it occurred to me...that unless you were born when Dickens was a lad, that school disco hasn't changed! they really do play the same songs! So tonight, mid-work and over dinner and a bottle of wine (red of course!) Mumu and me (try saying that when you're pissed) set about drafting an initial school disco top 10....this is gonna generate so much comment (well maybe more than 2 at least!)

Here goes (and in no particular order mixing mainly dance-like-a-flyd tracks with slower, "come to me" numbers:

1. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen!
2. A-Ha - Take on Me
3. Lionel Ritchie - Hello
4. Madonna - Crazy For You
5. Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
6. Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta - You're the one that I want
7. Spandau Ballet - Gold
8. Duran Duran - Rio
9. Adam and the Ants - Stand and deliver
10. Tears for Fears - Everybody wants to rule the world

Anyway, eventually he came out (no not in that way!) saying he'd had a good time...on the drive home it transpired he'd had a slow dance...at least that's what he described and when pushed admitted to having a snog too - when asked how this was he said "yeah it was ok!"...never, never, never lose the naivity of youth. He's not quite a dawg...really still just a puppy...in love!

And on that note....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=U7lMhuIsfh4

Loving this blogging lark!