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...."

[grandmoon]

Yep Grandmoom-remember those boiled lollies.

What about a confectionary-called a -choo choo bar.

Had a cartoon of a train on the packet.

Your teeth and lips would be black for a  week-lol...Richo.

Yes the choo choo bars and the white knights and red skins too.

[darksideofthemoon]

Are we paying too much to ebay I am paying too muchalmost 10% in fees. seriouly thinking of leaving,,???

I doubt if anyone will stop you flea 🙂

[darksideofthemoon]

Funny Gil, I was going past one of those lollie machines yesterday and thought I recognised boiled lollies in it.  They weren't of course, but it did remind me of them.

Musk sticks, straps of licorice - didn't you just love going into a shop and seeing the jars of lollies all lined up to stare at and wish you had more money?

There is a shop in Battery Point, Hobart that is set up exactly like that will huge jars of lollies and sweets.  It's wonderful 🙂

[beach_and_home]

I remember Black Cat Gum. It was licorice flavoured bubble gum. hmm, can't imagine why they don't make that any more......

[jonnjenn]

Crunching boiled lollies must have tested one's teeth!

I remember a black and white striped boiled sweet called a humbug {???}.

[kengillard]

yep remember humbugs too, musk sticks...loved them. and remember the hearts with writing on them?

[purple_haize]

I remember humbugs, straps of licorice, musk sticks & tiny little round lollies that came in a mixture of pink and white, they were yummy and have no idea what they were called, but can see them even now.

Use to get them from a little lollie shop.

I remember the hearts with writing on.......

I remember mint leaves that tasted like mint.......nothing like what they sell today & have the hide to call mint leave.

[serendipityricho]

Evening seniors.

What about the-Fags-the lollie cigarettes.

Minature packet just like the real ones.

Would not be in a shop thesedays.

One thing i have noticed on this thread is--

confectionary is called-lollies not "candy"-

good thing-we arnt yanks.............Richo.

[beach_and_home]

yep, I remember "smoking" those lolly fags and thinking that everyone would think they were real. he he

[kengillard]

ray Richo...lollies rule..night...time for oldies bed...xx