You know you’re getting old when your friends’ children suddenly pop up doing good stuff.

On their own.

Take Louisa Allen, debuting on iTunes with her song Sorry. Buy the album. What a sponge!

And Kate Maltby, over at Yale as a wannabe conservative feminist cultural critic, off to a flying start at Iqra’i, kindly giving me a free tutorial on Twittering and poised to appear over at the Spectator‘s website.

When we were goofing around as a student all those decades ago, we just didn’t imagine what our mischievous loins would create.

Here, with a mere 231,000 YouTube views, is my contribution: