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]

I"m SICK to death of the posts going backwards!!!!

but then I just realised I hadn't signed in.....so hope that's fixed it!

[freshwater-2]

I've thought about THE SILENT GENERATION title & reckon it could also be because, in those days, we kids were told not to speak unless spoken to first, but speak when you're spoken to, watch your manners, say please & thank you, look where you are going, respect your elders, give your tram seat to an older person, eat all your vegies, pick up after yourself, & so the list goes on. I think all that discipline never hurt us.

I agree with you 100% Joy....and don't forget when a child finished their meal they asked....may I leave the table please?

As for the adults being silent, they were too busy just trying to survive and improve their lives. They were not into whining, complaining, being aggressvie to their neighbours, complaining about food shortages and using food coupons,or taking people to court for petty reason.

All this without household appliances, or accessible birth control (I wonder where the expression 'tied to the kitchen stove with a belly full of arms and legs' came from) 

Right after the war, with the housing shortages, and so many returned soldiers getting married, they thanked their lucky stars if they found a furnished garage to rent, and they saved for years for a deposit on a very humble home.

Boy, we sure have it easy today compared with those days.

[kengillard]

yay.....that's the secret.....sign in before you try to post...thank goodness

[purple_haize]

yay.....that's the secret.....sign in before you try to post...thank goodness

I had the same problem yesterday, my OH had been on my computer & I accused him of doing something.........but it was only that I hadnt signed in.

[kengillard]

local shopkeepers used to give free stuff to kids...like the butcher who used to give me a free RAW sausage....which I loved...yukko today....and fresh baked bread and rollls...the smell was divine

[serendipityricho]

One for the Blokes.

The bits of cardboard-held on by pegs,

rubbing on the spokes-made a lot of noise -

My older brother used to slap me -because

it was his bike-:_|.

Richo.

[kengillard]

huge hugs to you Joybar xxx♥

[freddie*rooster]

4 kids shared 1 bike, and I don't ever recall any fights over whose turn it was to ride the bike.:^O

What about the stilts we made, mine were so high I had to climb onto the verandah to get on them :^O

[grandmoon]

We made our stilts from 2 tin cans with holes in the sides and rope through the holes.  I wasn't so far to fall.

And the billy carts our grandfather made out of a wooden fruit box and wheels from an old pram.

[jvharrison]

Loving all the walks down memory lane.........remember learning to make my first garment on a treadle machine......and then being allowed to use the first electric sewing machine a borletti....that borletti is still going strong at my friends home lol

I still have an Elna that was bought for me by my grandparents when i was 16 still sews wonderfully:)