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...."

[kengillard]

morning all♥

love reading all the memories.

We had newspaper for the outhouse.....used to put the used bits in a tin bucket.   Mum used to take the bucket out and burn the newspaper every week.

One cold very windy night I was using the outhouse (aged 😎 and decided I would set the paper alight to keep warm....

you guessed it......fire got away with the wind, and nearly burnt the toot to the ground....took me years to live that down! lol

[kengillard]

memories of snakes

my sister and I in our teens were alone in the house and a green snake came into our room and wrapped itself around the leg of a dressing table....we yelled across the gully to the share farmer to come and get it out....then raced outside to climb the tank stand.  Man came and we followed him inside...me having the devil in me....shouted "Look out!"  when there wasn't any need....poor bugga nearly wet himself! Can't remember what happened to the poor snake.

Another snake memory .   My nanna used to boil the kettle and poor it over the snake....that fixed it, poor thing.

[darksideofthemoon]

morning all♥

love reading all the memories.

We had newspaper for the outhouse.....used to put the used bits in a tin bucket.   Mum used to take the bucket out and burn the newspaper every week.

One cold very windy night I was using the outhouse (aged 😎 and decided I would set the paper alight to keep warm....

you guessed it......fire got away with the wind, and nearly burnt the toot to the ground....took me years to live that down! lol

:^O  only you Gil :^O

[purple_haize]

we had newspaper in out house as well.

[purple_haize]

To hang the washing out mum had rope tied to two poles. She had a copper, a rubbing board and dilly blue I think it was called, suppose to make the sheets white.

Could only buy white sheets back then.

Girls had hard brown school cases and boys had brown school bag that went on their back.

Only take away was fish and chips.

[thebraff]

No one has mentioned the person playing the piano or piano accordian at the picture theatre.

[kwozie1]

my grandparents (Dad's Mum and Dad) had an outdoor dunny too and a horrible crushed shell path that led to it, not nice trying to run down that in the middle of the night with no shoes or slippers on, newspaper cut into squares and hanging on a string for loo paper, the old copper to do the washing in and yes the blu to make the sheets white.... thank goodness for modern technology.

[kwozie1]

oh my gosh Braff my sister used to play the piano accordian, not at the picture theatre though, she always blamed that on having a flat chest, hahaha

what about the theatres that used to have the sing-a-longs with the words on the screen and the little bouncing ball above it, Mum used to take us there if she finished her shopping early before we caught the bus home... all done up in her hat and gloves, never went to town without being dresses "properly"

[purple_haize]

Remember the Salvo's use to walk the streets on a sunday morning with their band?

So many things I am starting to remember.

Mum always wore a hat when she went out and my grandmother doned the gloves as well.

I remeber the sing-a-longs as well at the theatres.

Mums with their baby in a pram use to leave the baby and pram outside the shop while they went in...............something you wouldnt not dare do today.

[freddie*rooster]

The local country cop gave you a kick up the kyber pass for robbing the local farmer of his watermelons.:^O