16-08-2015, 12:36 PM
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Re: When is old .....old
Originally Posted by valice
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Don't ever remember my grandma wearing an apron, if she did it wasn't all the time. (i hardly ever wear one), she used to like to have a bet on the gee gees (in the days before it was legal, think it was the butchers shop that dealt with that), and she used to go out a few evenings a week to a whist drive, in the day time there were 2 or 3 ladies she used to visit for a cuppa and a chat, i'd go with her if I was staying, but don't ever remember them visiting her.Granddad was content to stay at home with a couple of bottles of milk stout and listen to the radio.
My 2 were slaves to the home
Coff says she as her nose grows longer.
18-08-2015, 03:02 PM
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Re: When is old .....old
Originally Posted by maursey
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I don't feel old at all and thankfully I am told I don't look my age.I like modern clothes, modern music in fact age is just a number. If we didn't know our age, I'm sure we would all feel so much younger.
It is a known fact that we are ten years younger in our mind and body than what we use to be. So Susan you are only 55.
For example, I well remember being taken ill 12 months ago and waking up in a hospital bay ward. I looked around at these 7 other poorly frail elderly ladies sharing the hospital bay with me, every single one of them had white hair and pale skins, and I couldn't help thinking to myself.... , O.M.G. !!!!! why have they put me into the Gereatric ward with these old ladies !! then I realised, I may well have still been working full time back then at age 66, I may well still only look 46 (oh okay then, 56!)
I may have highlights put in my hair every 6 weeks, may still work out on my exercise bike every other day to keep fit, may well have kept myself slim enough to still fit into my size 12/14 jeans (even though I only dare wear em in the garden) but..........the reality once I was lying in that hospital bed soon hit home to me. I AM a pensioner! this IS the pensioner's ward! I AM old! I AM frail! under these highlights my hair IS flippin grey -probably going on white! Wow, did that reckoning give me a good reason to get better very quickly so that I could escape from that world !
I didn't want to be reminded of my age thank you very much.!
18-08-2015, 03:31 PM
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Re: When is old .....old
Originally Posted by ruthio
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I love your post!!My granny had to spend a week or so in an old people's home once, she said I hate being with all these old dears, you can't have a conversation with them all they do is sleep!
She was 86.
FAB !
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