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]

Polly waffles were good value---slip one into

the local crowded swimming pool----and watch the blame game and shrieks of horror--B-).........Richo.

Geez i must have been a mongrel kid--and havent

got any better since-lol.

[purple_haize]

:^O

[kayedonproducts]

Richo - I'm sure you an dmy OH are doubles :^O

A very quick hello to everybody as off to bed.  After my horrible day yesterday, I didn't sleep a wink - was up all night!!!!  Gave up just before 6am & had a quick brekkie, but still couldn't sleep.  Feeling pretty tired - so hopefully tonight wlll be better.

Braff - forgot last post, to say how sorry I was ti hear about your niece.

I used to love being able to buy 1d worth of bullets on th eodd occasion I was able to buy my lunch at the shool corner shop - where you took your own paper bag with the order on and money inside.  Bullete aren't the same either - about half the size at least, and as for Freddo frogs :_|  I'm back after a short interlude puffed out - just chased a cockraoch and got him/her with my OH's big measuring tape - ah, there's life in this "old" girl still :-x  Hmmm -how do you tell the sex of a cockroach???

Waves to everybody - sleep dreams!!!! (forget the cockraoch bit! :^O)

[kayedonproducts]

Sorry about the typos - should have done that spellcheck!!!

[robs_corner]

I can remember buying thrupence worth of broken biscuits, they were served in a paper bag. While "Stingy", that's what we called the shopkeeper, was out the back, we pinched his two bob chocolates. And yes we still waited for our bag of broken bickies.

Hmmm...Seems I've just confessed to something, well we were only 9 at the time.

On the other hand 9 year olds nowadays are pinching cars and doing B&E's.

[darksideofthemoon]

I can remember buying thrupence worth of broken biscuits, they were served in a paper bag. While "Stingy", that's what we called the shopkeeper, was out the back, we pinched his two bob chocolates. And yes we still waited for our bag of broken bickies.

Hmmm...Seems I've just confessed to something, well we were only 9 at the time.

On the other hand 9 year olds nowadays are pinching cars and doing B&E's.

It all sounds so innocent nowadays doesn't it Rob... The days when we still believed in Santa Claus and were happy to receive something under the tree - a new book, even a Meccano Set if we were reeeely lucky and - Oh Bliss - a bike!

Now all that has been spoiled with massive $$$ spent on things the kids EXPECT... X-(

[grandmoon]

I have just been look at some old Photos.

Do you remember the men's woollen swimmers.

[freshwater-2]

Women had them too, with a modesty skirt in front.....and they used to chafe and weigh the swimmer  down with water.

I didn't wear them...I always wore gals Speedos. No modesty with Speedos when they got wet. ;-).

[darksideofthemoon]

I have just been look at some old Photos.

Do you remember the men's woollen swimmers.

OMG grandmoon yes I do, and they were striped too :^O

What about the bathing belles of that time all done up to the nines from neck to mid thigh...

Do you remember the woollen costumes we used to wear with the little skirt in front?

And wasn't it daring to wear a bikini... except there was still lots of cloth, not like now :^O

[grandmoon]

OMG grandmoon yes I do, and they were striped too :^O

What about the bathing belles of that time all done up to the nines from neck to mid thigh...

Do you remember the woollen costumes we used to wear with the little skirt in front?

And wasn't it daring to wear a bikini... except there was still lots of cloth, not like now :^O

I remember the women's woollen swimmers with their skirts.

I also remember the swedish bloomers we wore for school sport the legs come down to our knees.