"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...."
... or a Ming vase someone found in a rubbish tip. Someone recognised it, and it sold at Sotherby's for 43 MILLION dollars 😮
Oh to be that lucky - and that knowledgeable ... sigh!
One day Richol I hope it happens to you 🙂
Yes gil, remember the butter wrappings too. Oh and sponge cakes.. and scones with jam and cream.
Did you ever get up to Blackheath where there was a small cafe that sold the best ever scones with jam and cream?
Yesterday I planted out 5 Grevilleas and have another one to do today... I am slowly blocking off the neighbours... I get very sick of seeing their house out my front windows... trees and bushes are far more acceptable 🙂
Have a good day everyone.
Morning all 🙂 nuffin' to say really unless others come in to add something...
Morning gilli xx
I remember that beach well freshie, but I was horrified the last time I flew up to Sydney to see just how ruined the whole of the northern beaches are with all the high rise buildings perched on the cliffs.
My days spent down there were back in the 1950s and 1960s when there was still bush and headlands and beautiful private beaches with little on them except perhaps cabins, like Bilgowlah..
My grandfather owned a cottage at Collaroy where the main road was two lanes wide and it had a milkbar and cinema and a few other shops and it was a quick step over to the beach... now it's over run and over populated and utterly spoiled...
So good on you for finding a hide-away somewhere else, but I bet if you tried to sell your beach place you would be inundated with offers :^O
Yes I have lots of small birds in the garden (and no cat), so I just keep planting things I know they will like. I have blue wrens that nest under the floor boards of my verandah or in the bushes close to the house... willy wag tails, black birds, finches, sparrows, pardelots, honey eaters, then bigger birds like cockatoos (black and white ones), ravens and also kookaburras and finally we get up to the big ones like sea eagles and hawks... It's all go down here :^O
I do get wallabies too but they are in my bush which I have fenced off from the garden - they, the possoms and the quolls and I have an agreement, they can have the bush and I'll have the other three acres of garden... It seems to work.
I planted out another grevillea today. She's called 'Molly' and only grows to about a metre, but she looks so pretty.
Then I splashed out and planted primulas just for the colour.
Hope everyone is getting along okay 🙂
bliss indeed gil, and that is what I am going to have in a couple of years when this lot has grown up... I can't wait.
Thanks for the spelling gil, I couldn't remember it :^O
The only thing I remember about Bilgola heights was the huge bush fire that raged up there in about 1946.
My parents and I were staying with a friend who had a cottage on the beach and we could see the fire clearly. I have to admit I was somewhat scared, but of course it didn't rush down and grab us all :^O
