"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...."
Morning all 🙂
:^O Mr Paramore Gil, I bet he was teased unmercifully about that.
Do you remember when the Opera House wasn't there? and the old tram depot was on Benelong Point?
Hmm.... trust you Richo 🙂 I leaned a way of dodging buying a ticket to get into a picture theatre... that was handy for a while.
I used to work for a jeweller in Wynyard and delivered watches, rings and other jewellry around Sydney for repair. Some of the old buildings that were still there was amazing.
I remember one where they had an old iron fretword lift and you had to wind yourself up the floors by a handle.
The jewellers were all in tiny rooms with wooden benches, it didn't matter what building I was in, they were all the same.
I think back now and wonder how my employer allowed me at 15 to carry hundreds of pounds worth of jewellry around Sydney in a calico bag ... I bet I couldn't do it nowadays.
Late arvo seniors.
Bet you were a naughty girl Gilly-lol.
Darki-i have always been an opportunist.
Easy and hard ways of doing things.
Mentioning hard ways- had to work the shop on my own today.
9-4pm.
Hot concrete building in full sun.
(still 36 degs here)
Did 10 garage sales and a fete before opening the shop.
-----------can i have a beer now?................Richo.
You deserve more than one beer Richo. Gosh it was hot wasn't it. Got to 39˚ down here in southern Tasmania and another scorcher today, what I call bushfire weather as there is a strong westerly blowing too.
I am just glad that there will be storms tonight and cool tomorrow.
Thankfully I have a concrete block (sandstone coloured) house and that does keep cool. I have the air con on upstairs as it gets like an over up there.
Do hope you have an okay day where you are Richo.
I missed out on seeing Queen Elizabeth I clothes that were on display in Sydney because I broke the crocodile with some others and snuck back to the shop on the way to Roseville station to catch the train to buy some sweets Gil.
We were sent back to the school where we had a reasonable day because we didn't have teachers - they were with the good lot, but not as much fun of course.
Did you get to see the clothes? it would have been interesting because, by today's standards, the people were so much smaller than we are today.
Hi all 🙂 My word it's been torrid today at 37˚ Had lots of smoke from fires around the Hobart area and one behind me that, thankfully, is defeated.
Anyone remember Sydney 1960 when the first day was 100F = 37C, the second day was 104F which is 40C and the third day was 106, which was 41˚
I was six months pregnant at the time and I thought I would die.
I see can recall the Southerly Buster hitting Sydney and quickly arriving in Willoughby...
I've never forgotten it.
