To boldly go where no camera has gone before

MY grandmother, who died many years ago, was fond of saying that she had lived too long.

She used to say this while in what we today would regard as middle age — her 60s — and especially when tampon adverts started appearing on the telly.

Images of carefree women in tight, white trousers rollerblading down mountainsides, as men in white coats poured blue liquid onto sanitary wear in laboratories, used to make her apoplectic. “I have lived too long!” she would exclaim.