Surely every generation thinks the same, but the modern world these days seems to just roll ahead at an alarming rate.

Yet the faster society goes, the more we crave the simple things.

Take, for example, the old adage of: “when I was a kid”.

You know the story about how, even my generation, could seemingly occupy itself with a bat and a ball all day and into the night? Day in, day out.

Try that now with the kids we are raising.

Maybe that’s why we yearn so much for the “good old days”.

Last year, Wollongong City Council with the help of the Rotary Club of Wollongong among others, introduced an “Easter Family Fun Day”.

The idea was to get families out to the Wollongong Botanic Gardens on Easter Saturday and enjoy exactly that – a family fun day.

The idea was to get kids involved in some activities we all took part in as kids.

Sack races, egg and spoon races, three-legged races and of course Easter eggs hunts.

It was a new/old idea and nobody was quite sure how it would go.

It was expected a few hundred might turn up.

Instead, people turned up in the thousands to enjoy what was a fantastic day of nothing more than family and good, old fashioned fun.

It’s pleasing to report this year the event will be happening again and it would be a delight to see even more families get out to enjoy the delights of the garden, but best of all, some chocolate.

Please come along and have some fun with your community.

Julian O’Brien is a member of the Rotary Club of Wollongong.