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...."

[serendipityricho]

Good morning seniors.

I can recall in the 1950s-wading through a swamp in Jolimont WA.

Harvesting leechs to be sold to a hospital in Subiaco.

Tough way to earn a few shillings.

Richo.

[jvharrison]

Richo would have been a real tough way to earn a few bob

Kids had a much more rounded up bringing in those days and were taught how important it was to respect others that seems sadly lacking in a lot of the people today:(

[kwozie1]

morning dear seniors, nice breeze today so hopefully wont be so hot....

now I need some help plz

I dont know what I have done but when I open a thread it always comes up as the last post written and I have to read up the page instead of down, I have gone to preferences and put oldest posts 1st, I have rebooted, but still the same thing, most annoying reading up instead of down, anybody help me with this.

Thanks and have a great day all

Cheers

Ruth

[rosieglen]

Shouldnt you put newest posts first ???

[azureline**]

That happened to me this morning, I must not have been awake properly though, when I looked hard at it, I hadn't signed in.

[rosieglen]

Haha - duh me - of course not.  My excuse - its early morning LOL

[serendipityricho]

Ruth--try newest first and 50 per page.

Fancy me giving puta advise---lol.

Richo.

[kwozie1]

many thanks all, very weird but when I just came in to see if there were any answers it is now back to normal.....gremlins I guess, dont need them at this hour of the morning..

Cheers all....as you were...lol

off for my morning walk

[purple_haize]

Good morning Seniors:-)

I remember Portcia Faces Light, my mother listened to it, there was so many I cant rmemember them all.

I know exactly where I was and what I was doing when JFK was shot.

Remember in the chemist shops they all had those huge different shape bottles all different colors.

Milk bars where they sold real milk shakes made in aluminium containers and then poured into glass milk shake glasses.

[sammee4211]

Ahhh the memories of our youth!

1. Copper washing pots using a wooden stick to stir the clothes.

2. No Hills Hoists back then (still have one and love it).

3. Given a shilling to go to the movies where you got to see two movies and trailers. Nine pence to get in and threepence for an icecream.

4. OH was in the 2nd call up via birthday ballot when compulsory conscription came in for Vietnam. I still have the telegram saying his birthday wasn't drawn. I was 19 and he was 20 and we were married that year (1965) because if had been called up, he would have left in December 1965.

5. Bought our first house in 1966 and loved my Hoover twin tub lol.

6. Small freezers back then so you bought fresh meat each day during your lunch hour break from work.

7. Outhouses - apple paper for toilet paper.

8. Listening to the wireless, Grandma's fave was Man Martoo.

9. We didn't own a car so we walked everywhere.

10. Yes also the broken biscuits plus a small bag of boiled lollies.

11. Not many clothes just enough to cover school and play time.

12. Rabbits were cheaper than chicken for dinner now rabbits cost a bundle.

The list goes on but we were not as stressed out or impatient as people are today.

Thank you also for the congrats on our daughter's impending motherhood. Yes we went shopping again yesterday and yes she spent a whole heap of $$$s but this will be her only child and they can afford what they want. I just don't know where she is going to fit it all hehe. She has had a rough road to travel trying to have a beloved baby. Getting excited!!

Have a great day all and no we are not OLD, we are just older than we were. ❤️