In John Burmingham's well-stocked larder of the wit and wisdom that comes with age are contributions from Raymond Briggs, Ivor Cutler, Frank Dickens, Michael Foot, Richard Ingrams, Doris Lessing, Patrick Moore, Dervla Murphy, Ronald Searle, Tom Sharpe, Chad Varah and many others on themes such as 'time', 'birthdays', 'travel' and 'love and marriage'. Woven in amongst the pieces is a rich selection of quotes from T.S. Eliot and Leon Trotsky to Bob Hope and Ogden Nash and fifty wonderful drawings by John Burmingham.