the grass is singing why did charlie move to africa

There was of course the classic British class system. Of course it was not the same for everyone, but for many that was how it was indeed how it was. Such was it in my UK life in and around the 60’s and 70’s. So it was when there was a shortage of homes and a wealth following a second world war – the birth of the so-called successful self-made man was little more than just being fortunately placed. With one house already paid for you borrowed for a second then a third, a fourth and a fifth. There was no shortage of work for those who wanted it, you bought a four-bedroomed house one year for £3,500 and sold it three years late for six times what you paid for it, bought another and it tripled in price over four years. Baby boomers were mostly handed life on a plate. The period on into the 1970s and 80s had nothing to do with hard work.

He took his allocated five weeks holiday plus bank holidays days each year until he retired. Truth is he just worked a steady and regular forty hour week, never risked anything ever and was fortunate to be born in the right era for prospering, the late 1940s. He thinks he worked hard and as result of that hard work he is now rich.

The grass is singing why did charlie move to africa