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...."

[purple_haize]

I agree with you Darki, all the best things do come when you are older.

I enjoy my days now, hubby and me go for lots of walks to gardens and to the beach and life is not hectic any more.:-)

[purple_haize]

I use to use Lustre Cream I think I used it once and didnt like it.

Remember Johnsons Baby Powder was in a big white square tin.

There was an ointment to, when you had a cold, you could put it around your nose, cant remember what it was called, but can see it in my mind was in a square tin.........the name will come to me at some stage.

[lyndal1838]

Not only do I remember those teeny tiny watches, but I still have one (a Seiko) in excellent working condition which I still wear on occasions.

My then fiance was in the Navy and went to Japan in mid 1966...he bought the very small watch and another one which was larger and automatic.  He arrived back on the morning of my 21st birthday and gave me the watches.

The automatic was worn from 1966 to just 18 months ago when I finally pensioned it off in favour of a new one bought on ebay.

The small one is still worn on occasions when I want a watch but not a big chunky one...and I can still see it properly, even if it is with glasses now.

[lyndal1838]

There was an ointment to, when you had a cold, you could put it around your nose, cant remember what it was called, but can see it in my mind was in a square tin.........the name will come to me at some stage.

Do you mean Vicks VapoRub?  I remember it, but not as being in a square tin.

[darksideofthemoon]

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

I'm off to make one now.

Beach, I have the folded tin lid and the hole punched near the fold

If I put the folded bit in my mouth I can almost get a whistle but not quite... any suggestions?  🙂

[jvharrison]

Yes nice to have the peddle /foot off the back of the neck once one chucks in the paid job still heaps to do though lol

[serendipityricho]

Evening seniors.

Re the recent mention of fox whistles.

Up the bush years ago i would show the young blokes

how to make a duck caller.

All that was needed was one of those ring pull can tops.

Would get their attention -then spend ages bending

the flap part into different shapes

All the eyes were glued on the method.

Then i would hold it up and yell through the ring part--

CALLING ALL DUCKS-lol.

Would get the mongrel of the month award for that!

Richo.

[beach_and_home]

Beach, I have the folded tin lid and the hole punched near the fold

If I put the folded bit in my mouth I can almost get a whistle but not quite... any suggestions?  🙂

Yes, I remember that you need to open and close the fold to find the right spot. And you need to sort of put your tongue against the folded edge while you're blowing. If you get those things right you don't need to blow very hard.

Keep trying, if you can work it out you will love it !!

[purple_haize]

Do you mean Vicks VapoRub?  I remember it, but not as being in a square tin.

It just came to me it was called Camphor Ice, used when you had a cold, mum used it on me the most.

[beach_and_home]

Hey I just googled and found some instructions.

This part is harder to explain than making the whistle...

Place the folded part of the whistler against the bottom of your tongue.
Push your tongue back with the whistle so the tip of your tongue points at the roof of your mouth.
Let you lips gently seal against the top and bottom part of the whistle.
Blow.
Blow soft and hard and experiment with different mouth shapes until your make it whistle.
It might take a bit of practice to get started, but before long you will notice dogs and cranes desperately trying to follow your instructions

I remember the bit about creating a seal with your lips is important too. Here's a link so you can see what it looks like too. The guy has gone a bit fancy in shaping the edges nicely.

http://www.instructables.com/id/A-Homemade-Whistle-in-less-than-a-Minute/step4/How-to-make-it-Whistl...