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...."

[bluepanda555]

Afternoon all,

Yes JV, afros hairstyles, ........  Just watched an old tv series The Professionals with Martin Shore (Shaw?)   who played recently Judge John Deed., if you've seen it he has short grey hair and is very dignified.

  He was very young in the series and had an afro hairstyle ....and very tight pants with flares .......  :^O

Also jv, i remember those tiny waches and a boyfriend gave me one in marcasite which was considered the ultimate in fashion. The fact I could hardly see the time didn't matter. 

Kengillard you've prob found the answer by now , but the Payee on a cheque is the one the money is going  to, and Payer the one paying the money (usually me...:-(  )

[jvharrison]

Keni hope u get it all sorted very soon,

And yes can remember those super tiny watches had a job to see them even back then

And there were the friendship rings ususally the first ring a guy would give you sort of meant you were attached/serious....were quite a broad band with either tiny sapphires or rubies in them set into a star pattern

Darki yes remember the home perms which twin had the toni lol

Also Richard Hudnut perms as well?
Beck Shampoo i think that was made in the States

[darksideofthemoon]

If I add 'Kembla Building' does that help Darkie ?:|

Nothing untoward about my question - just testing MY memory 😄

Blooming blazers girl... no, Kembla Building is somewhere deep in the back of my mind, but do you have the right 'Darki'? It may be someone else...

You could message me and reveal all?  Hahaha!

Funny because I do recall a doctor Stubbs, but not a miss Stubbs.... sigh!  I'm probably the wrong Darki 😞

[beach_and_home]

I am way way too young for this thread!! But just wanted to share something my grandpa (born 1899) taught me to make. I've never seen or heard of it anywhere else.

It was a fox whistle made from a tin lid. You took the lid off a can of food. Then folded it in half. Then you punched a hole through both sides with a hammer and nail. The hole was close to the folded edge. Then you could put the folded edge in your mouth and blow and the noise apparently attracted foxes because it sounded like a wounded rabbit.

Does anyone else remember these?

[jvharrison]

Hi i dont remember that type of whistle but do remember the fox whistles ......good money was to be made from their pelts and then of course were the rabbit traps

[beach_and_home]

I think it is the loudest most piercing whistle I've ever heard. The ones made from the tin lids.

[wilneil]

Talking about shampoo, I remember Halo, in a tallish tapered bottle with rings around it, think it had a blue screw top, was good if your hair was a bit on the oily side.  Then there was Lustre Cream, in a blue and silver tube, a bit heavy on the lanolin and great for dry, lifeless hair.

[darksideofthemoon]

Beach, thanks for that, and thanks to your Grandfather too.

I do need a whistle for my dog and that might just work.  I'm sure if it sounds like a wounded rabbit he will respond.

I need something that will reach over the sound of his barking, so will try it 🙂

You can come again :^O

[darksideofthemoon]

I think it is the loudest most piercing whistle I've ever heard. The ones made from the tin lids.

That's what I want, loud and piercing :^O

I'm off to make one now.

[darksideofthemoon]

Afternoon all, how was your day?  Mine was quite lovely, 21˚ down here and sparkling... love it.

Planted a small tree, took the dogs for a walk, read a book..

Y'know all the best things come when you are getting older and not working any longer 🙂