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]

Evening gerries ---just checking on you all.

Might grab the snipe as usual--lol....................Richo.

[kengillard]

smartie pants Richo;\

[serendipityricho]

Hi Gilly--someone has to do it.

OK--i will take the bait--------what is chocko or choko?.

[jean2579]

Hi Gilly--someone has to do it.

OK--i will take the bait--------what is chocko or choko?.

Hi all, Richo it is a very tasteless and horrible pear shaped plant that usually grew over the loo or back fence. You can still buy it. You have to smother it in a sauce or butter to get any taste. As you can guess I don't like it.

[freshwater-2]

Choko was bad enough....who remember slithery tripe.

I used to literally gag.

On the positive side, we seldom bought fruit or vegetables.  If it wasn't growing in our yard we could find it in a local paddock.

Fig and mulberry trees just two of many.

[lyndal1838]

I don't think anyone after my grandmother's generation liked choko...it was an acquired taste and I never acquired it.:^O

My mother used to be given a couple each season by an elderly friend.  She dutifully ate them and each year said it would be the last she accepted.:^O

I remember tripe. I was not very keen on it when I was growing up but did acquire a liking for it when I was in my 30s.  I have not seen it since our local butcher closed down and I have been getting my meat from the supermarket.

[serendipityricho]

Good morning gerries.

Glad i missed out on tasting chokos.

Will take a rain check on tripe as well-lol.

The tucker i most hated as a kid was steamed on

Good Friday and other occasions.

That salty white flesh-orange skined fish

from South Africa.--geez i loathed that.

Have a great sunday .........................Richo.

[kengillard]

smoked haddock richo?   we had that on Good Friday too, with white sauce  ...........yes it was very salty, but I didn't mind it.

morning all.........another hot day coming up...but it's summer aint it?

[grandmoon]

I remember my mother cooking tripe with onions and white sauce.  She would give it to my father, Nanna and Pop.  Lucky for us kids Mum didn't like tripe so we didn't have to eat it.

[jean2579]

Morning all. My Husband still loves tripe in white parsley sauce and lambs fry. I will do anything, find any excuse not to have to cook them.