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...."

[joybar246]

'morning all -

My favourite meal was Nana's fried onion & tomato on toast, & we had bread sops for pudding! Sometimes with a bit of jam - if we were lucky.

When Nana got very cross with us, she would call us ragged muffins & little varmints!

Nana had a really long thin plait, which she used to roll around at the back of her head, top of the neck.

Nana died Coronation year - I still think of her when I do onion & tomato to go with something else I'm cooking.

[kengillard]

Speaking of food, because I was born during the war or just before it, food supplies were scarce....we kept chickens so had plenty of that.  However, tripe, giblets, chicken feet, pigs trotters, and rabbits, and tongue were served quite regularly....no part of the animal was wasted, even rabbits skins were cured and made into rugs.

Nan and Mum used to make bread and butter pudding too and Nan gave us hot rice with milk and sugar on it as a desert.  Pa used to kill Rosella parrots and Nan would turn them into a stew of sorts...I refused to eat it after Pa took me shooting with him once (aged about 6) I'll never forget the red blood on the green feathers........still makes me sad to think of it.......

[margomeoz]

I used to love it when you still got all the innards in the chook,

I especially love the chickens feet, my kids can't believe you would eat anything with toe nails on. :^O

I still go yo yum cha just to get a feed of the feet.

Loved the christmas puddings too with all the threepences and sixpences.

hated the pudding though still do.

[jvharrison]

What about the sunday roasts after church in the am......the chicken would have been caught and killed the day before.....fresh vegies of course from the garden......and the people on the farm across the creek had a granny smith orchard......and we were allowed to pick as much fruit as we wanted and they got eggs from us.

Remember picking Isobella grapes.......wonderful wonderful flavour and we still have the one vine surviving take cuttings off it for whatever place am living in

Yes remember the sponge cakes my nana used to make them from fielders cornflour..........that gives them the light feel....and she used to triple sift them cooked and then covered with fresh passionfruit icing 🙂

[kengillard]

Makes me shudder when I think of the chicken feet and where they had been walking and what they had been walking IN, Margot......

Mum must have given them a really good scrub.......hopefully!

[kengillard]

Makes me shudder when I think of the chicken feet and where they had been walking and what they had been walking IN, Margot......

Mum must have given them a really good scrub.......hopefully!

[kengillard]

stupid error notice!

[bluepanda555]

Hot Fish n chips in newspaper dripping in fat and salt. A piece of flake and six pennith of chips.   Bewdiful.  . 

[kengillard]

Every Sunday after Sunday school (yuk), my sister and I used to walk down the street (with our cousin...mother of Nicola) to our grandparents house for biscuits and cordial.  There was a large map of the world on the wall in the kitchen and we used to play a game every Sunday.....trying to find as many countries that started with A  for example. We were being educated without knowing it ...lol.  I remember we called the grandies, 'ma' and 'pa' and would always argue with our cousin who called him 'da'.....silly childish thing..we were all under 8 ..

I also had a Pa who was my mums father....who died not long after my father from cancer...Mum said I never got over losing them both so close together....

I often wonder what effect it had on me in the future

[kengillard]

come on you 3,000 lookers?  you must have something to add to this thread?