"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 ๐
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 ๐
So, onward and upward. Let's go...."
Hi Darki--"-Im my own Grandpa."-dont know how to post it or do links.
By that great Australian singer--Chad Morgan.
Richo.
Here you go Richo ๐
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7x1ETPkZsk
Sadly the best I could find of Chad Morgan was taken in a shopping mall and you couldn't hear the words, but here it is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ26ElFrr4
ahem, scuse me but I did answer it. ๐
My nanna taught it to me years ago.
Oops, sorry beach.. You're the clever one ๐
I wouldn't say my school uniform was totally awful however I am scarred for life. Growing up in Melbourne, imagine having to wear a skirt in winter !!!!! How ridiculous. Thank god the girls nowadays are allowed to wear nice warm trackpants.
Also, playing tennis we were not allowed to wear our trackpants on the court. When playing you had to wear just the dress and a jumper. What a joke!! Having bare legs sometimes in 5 degrees if it was a cold morning. But they boys were allowed to wear long pants of course.
I hardly ever wear a dress or skirt these days.
Erm... what is a dress or skirt beach? :^O :^O :^O...
Anyone remember the huge breakfasts our grandparents used to have?
I remember my grandmother cooking up bacon, eggs and tomatoes for my grandfather in the early mornings and then cooking bread in the bacon fat for him.
How did they survive?
Gosh it was yummy ๐
Thinking of those disgusting square pleated uniforms winter ones in a prickly serge where the pleats had to be tacked together to iron them........thick stockings and of course no jewellery at all not even a cross:(
Oh I remember them well JV but then my school changed the uniform and instead we had sort of flat grey serge uniforms with a straight skirt and not pleats or anything... a V neck and sleeveless of course.
Gosh they were awful ๐
