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...."

[grandmoon]

tried to type jitterbuggas but couldn't.   spelt it correctly....wonder if this will get through?   they made me tired just watching.

I am having flashback to the Rock and Roll and Jitterbug  wearing full circle skirts made out of reversible ( different colour each side) felt with white blouse and a scarf tied around the neck and white bobby sox and flat shoes.

[darksideofthemoon]

I am having flashback to the Rock and Roll and Jitterbug  wearing full circle skirts made out of reversible ( different colour each side) felt with white blouse and a scarf tied around the neck and white bobby sox and flat shoes.

Yes indeed grandmoon and the cumberband too pulled firmly around the waist to make it look like you'd break in the middle..

Oh them's were the days, loved dancing... learned ballet when i was a little kid til I was about 12 and then on to ballroom dancing and square dancing... loved it all 🙂

[kengillard]

did I say this already?? apologies if I did.

My mum used to hold square dancing night on our front verandah all our rellies plus friends would attend..was great fun. had great crushes (aged 14) on all the counsins that attended!   lol male ie.

[beach_and_home]

I used to love square dances. It meant that you actually got to touch the boys and get up close to them. And you didn't have to wait to be asked to dance.

[grumpy42]

Does any one remember some of the old biscuit names? - Yo-Yo's and proper Bush Biscuits that cost 3 pence (a trey bit it was called).- 3 inches long a bit over 2 wide and a good 1/4 of an inch thick. I used to buy them on the old Jetty at Semaphore in South Aussie - one was a meal for a six year old. And Freddo Frogs? - proper ones - not like the junk you get these days - if you can still get them at all. What about the old currency nicknames - trey, sixpence, a bob, two bob, ten bob and a quid? I wonder how many remember when petrol was 2 bob a gallon? I still mourn the passing of Violet Crumbles and Polly Waffles. Yep - I do ramble on 🙂

[kayedonproducts]

Well I'm back again - up late and watched Hewitt lose 😞

Glad I read through all the posts since my last post, as I had a good laugh, after a horrible day (yesterday now 0 so today's a new day!!!).  Not going there though.

Now trying to remember all the posts. Hmmm! Bet the person who changed how threads worked is about 19 - hard to remember it all when you are a Senior 😞

Darki - thanks for your kiss for my 1st ever snipe.

Rich - Many thanks for your future prize - hope it's a few years away, so you will have to keep it on hold for me, so to speak! :^O.  We used to have a Valiant stationwagon with a bench seat in the front but no "messages" on it - we had 4 kids, that's why we bought it.  The motor was still going great when we had to drive it onto the junk yard as it was sooo rusty - had more bog than body :^O.

I was trying hard to make something else out of those letters - had something to do with "knocin" and "rockin" - so probably along the same vein :^O

My favourite biscuits were Chocolate Delta creams - I used to pinch a couple out of the paper bag walking back from the corner shop - makes me feel bad now, as we weren't well off and Mum loved them also.  One day, I ate the centre out of a half loaf of bread, and told Mum, Mr Finn, our grocer, said he was sorry, but there had been rats in the shop - don't think she believed me.  We called the grocer "Fatty Finn in the Biscuit Tin" because he was fat.

We used to buy our groceries from the corner shop and usually by Friday, had to put whatever Mum bought "on the Book", as Dad got paid Friday nights and wouldn't be home until after the shop shut.  If it wasn't fish and chips Dad bought home for tea, it was frankfurts from the shop and mashed potato.

Yes, it was sad losing my sister - one of the reasons I visit the Cancer Thread - Hi JV - can imagine how you must be feeling "Burnt out".

Well, best get off here - I was supposed to be listing tonight, but haven't listed a thing!!!

Can't remember who posted what a happy thread this is, but yes it is.  Big Wave to all you lovely Seniors and the few "young-uns" who have ventured in.

Must go - "My eyes are dim, I cannot see, I have not brought my specs with me" - not quite true, as I have them on!!!!

Sure fun doing a spell-check when posting here - doesn't even recognise frankfurt, let alone other words - wouldn't recognise those money names Grumpy!!!

[jvharrison]

Morning morning all and away with a whole lot of rellies hard tolog in as the dammed computer hook up is 21 something geez slower than 2 wet weeks

Remembering all the R and R americans that used to flood Brissie................wonderfully well mannered and behaved boys who used to love being able to stay with an aussie family wonderful times.  Many of them kept in touch and for many it was their last holiday before getting the Final Ticket.  Many of us kept in touch with their families for years afterwards trying to help them through their unbearable grief.

Remember the country weddings held in peoples homes.............they were a ton of fun

Will log in when i can with this connection that could be very dicey:(

[darksideofthemoon]

Does any one remember some of the old biscuit names? - Yo-Yo's and proper Bush Biscuits that cost 3 pence (a trey bit it was called).- 3 inches long a bit over 2 wide and a good 1/4 of an inch thick. I used to buy them on the old Jetty at Semaphore in South Aussie - one was a meal for a six year old. And Freddo Frogs? - proper ones - not like the junk you get these days - if you can still get them at all. What about the old currency nicknames - trey, sixpence, a bob, two bob, ten bob and a quid? I wonder how many remember when petrol was 2 bob a gallon? I still mourn the passing of Violet Crumbles and Polly Waffles. Yep - I do ramble on 🙂

Yes I mourn the passing of Violet Crumble bars too grumpy, I think it was my Dad that shared the first one I ever had with me.  Proper Freddo Frogs too, can't be bothered with the rubbish nowadays ...

Do you remember the old Arnotts biscuit tins with the picture of - was it? - a girl looking at a girl... can't remember now, but it used to capture me because it went on and on as if she was looking in a mirror... can anyone help me?

And the Rosella tins with the parrot?

Who remembers the 'modern' Kookaburra stoves?  Still love the old wood stove cooking more tho.

[darksideofthemoon]

Hi JV 🙂  good to see you here I didn't expect it knowing you were spending time with your aunt and uncle...

My father's parents used to entertain the British officers off the ships in WWII and I can still remember some of them, particularly one who introduced me to chewing gum :^O

After dinner the men used to retire to the 'smoking room' where they would light up their pipes and have a port.

I used to sneak in with them and enjoy the smell of the pipes.

At the dinner table I remember my grandfather showing me how to eat peas off my knife without cutting my mouth on the sharp edge... I think my mother and grandmother must have been otherwise occupied or they would have stopped him :^O

[kengillard]

morning all

I remember the US defence forces visiting Sydney on R and R .  They used to congregate around the fountain in Hyde Park and tried to pick up girls.....mostly sucessful as they had heaps of $$ to spend...I took one to Luna Park....was fun.