The Seniors Thread :-)

[darksideofthemoon]

"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 🙂

But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul.  We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.

The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there.  If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.

The  belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad.  Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people.  Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.

Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.

What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.

Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later.  We can talk about that too.

Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.

The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...

So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here 🙂

So, onward and upward.  Let's go...."

[freshwater-2]

I keep remembering things....when I was about 12 -13 yo I used to model dresses for David Jones on a RADIO show . Squillions of teenagers used to go after school to the 2GB auditorium for a teen show.  I think it was called Teen Time, but that may have been the name of the other small audience show on 2UE.

I was picked out of the huge audience to model clothes.  I just swanned around on the stage and then described the dress on air.  My payment was keeping the dresses. The dresses I didn't like I just sold for pocket money.

[freshwater-2]

Anybody remember the radio show,  Mrs 'Obbs (who was actually played by a man).  Dicky Bart who sold clothes props and Mr. Bottomley who was having it off with the school mistress?

[bluepanda555]

And then in the early days of tv, The mickey mouse club with that cute Annette Funicello and all the mouseketeers....   how we loved that...... hey there hi there ho there you're as welcome as can be .... M I C   KEY   MOUSE. 

In black and white too, but it didn't matter, we saw the colours in our minds.  

[serendipityricho]

Rosie--regroup time---the young bloke was-

Greenbottle-nothing to do with the goon show.

It was all Aussie stuff.

Program was called -Yes what.

Found it on the net -looks like you can listen to em.

Going for a trip down memory lane--lol.

Richo.

[rosieglen]

My memory must be going LOL - you are right = bluebottle was Peter Sellars character in the Goon Show.

We used to listen to Blue Hills

dedicated to all those who are in love

and all those who

can remember..... LOL

[purple_haize]

Anybody remember the radio show,  Mrs 'Obbs (who was actually played by a man).  Dicky Bart who sold clothes props and Mr. Bottomley who was having it off with the school mistress?

Yes I remember that and there was another show I used to listen to as well it was called *Hagan's Circus* was on every night at 6.00pm, it was a serial.

[purple_haize]

The very first show that I saw on TV in black & white was *Annie Oakley*. Our neighbours bought a TV and they invited us in to see it, after that dad went out and bought one.

There wasnt that much to watch mainly westerns and a very young Clint Eastward in *Rawhide*

I loved Bonanza to with Little Joe.

[freshwater-2]

Yes I remember that and there was another show I used to listen to as well it was called *Hagan's Circus* was on every night at 6.00pm, it was a serial

Oh Yes Purple, and Martins Corner and the Search for the Golden Boomerang (I can still remember the theme song).

I think the main character's name was Kakonie or something like that.

This thread is a hoot..

[darksideofthemoon]

I remember crying my eye's out that santa didn't bring me a rope petticoat on Christmas morning. Funnily enough santa misplaced it and left in my Brothers bedroom :^O

Margo, wow that's expensive, but when you think about it it's only 2 good bottles of wine :^O

Now you have me worried freddie, did your brother try on the rope peticoat?  :^O

[darksideofthemoon]

Y'know, I suppose it's because I grew up listening to the radio plays that even now I am happy to be doing something else and just listening to the TV programs.

I have friends who just don't understand that I still 'see' it all in my mind... anyone else like that?

Ballroom dancing classes and square dancing and Pride of Erin progressive dances... things they don't even know today...

Yes, and someone said we were taught to cook and sew and knit - all the home making crafts... now kids hardly know any of that.

To my delight my young granddaughter wants me to teach her to knit, her mother doesn't so I'm the only chance she has 🙂

Well it's nite nite from me, I'm off to bed, see you all tomorrow xx