"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...."
I remember the public transport 'rules'....we were drilled at school that we must always give our seats to an adult, male or female.
Speaking of Rowe Street....nice coffee...think I had my first cup there. Rosalie Norton was a character and Bea Miles too..remember getting a bus, that she 'comandeered' the driver, refusing to pay (as always) and quoted Shakespeare instead!:^O Was very entertaining....apparently she was very well off, and her family would round her up, give her a bath and some clean clothes every week, and turn her loose again.
Does anyone remember "Bumper" Farrel? The cop who was well known at Kings Cross, and who regularly raided the Ladies of the Night houses....Chapel Street (Lane)??
We used to go out in groups for coffee at the Cross and then we would all drive up Chapel Street for a gawk, then drive down through the city and park all in a row one behind the other (MGB'S) in ............ that was before they closed it off to motor traffic. Can't for the life of me remember the name of that huge area in between George and Pitt etc. where the war memorial is and where they hold the dawn services? Help! bluddy memory.;\
You might be thinking of Martin Place? How could you forget Gil ?
B was actually studying law when she was young, apparently she was brilliant, but it seems something happened to her - the gossip was she was over stressed with study... don't know 😞
Yes Bumper Farrel and the Cross and the Ladies of the Night houses.
Havent been in here for yonks - been busy unpacking and settling in - just love our new home.
Good to see everyone is still remeniscing - I remember Bea Miles well - used to see her a lot when waiting for the tram at Central to go to school.
Hello Rosie Posie 🙂 So good to see you here again, and so great to know you have finally moved and are happy.
What a relief after all this time.
My son is still waiting to sell his place and also JV, who seems to be MIA at present.
It's a buyer's market isn't it.
Well I treated myself today to having my car washed and detailed at home.
Two young men turned up and within an hour the car was looking like new. So nice to have it done for me, especially as my back is not helping at present.
So much to remember about Sydney isn't there. I still see Wynyard station so clearly in my mind. I worked just up the road from there in a very large jewellery store called 'Harveys'.
That was before I went to Miss Hales business college
Isn't it strange that we would all remember the Quay before the Cahill Expressway went past it.
I can recall the very first neon sign I saw after the war. It was a bear on a bicycle eating an icecream. The wheels turned and the bear's arm went up and down at it licked the icecream.
Does anyone have moving neon signs any more? We don't have them down here in Hobart.
