Are we elderly or middleaged.

Happy birthday maggiep from me too. And Ariadne for Saturday . I'm 63 on Thursday and I'd quite like someone to explain to me how that happened. I think I was about 29 not long ago.

Happy Birthday maggiep, kittylester and Ariadne. Hope you all have great birthdays.

Ooh! So many birthdays today. Have a very happy day all of you

None of you girls look a day over 39, hope you all have great birthdays. xxx

Many happy returns, girls.

Ooohhh! How nice! Thank you! Xxxxxxxxx

Thank you all especially nanachrissy Please have on me to help me celebrate?! xx

Thanks very much girls for all your kind wishes, I had a lovely day and returned to son and DIL home where Grandson had helped make little fairy cakes for me!
Happy Birthday to Ariadne & kittylester and much appreciated comments from nannachrissy.

Re the hated term OAP, the following is one of my most applauded poems (I'm a performance poet):

I've just been called an OAP!
Can this be happening to me?
Is this farewell to sex and booze,
to push-up bras and high-heeled shoes?
Hello to Ovaltine at night,
to vests and Bingo? Well, not quite.
For one weekend, when feeling rude,
I went and got myself tattooed.
And now beside my OA Peers
I greet the autumn of my years
with an Older Person's Travel Pass
and a purple butterfly on my arse.

Oh, sussexpoet, how I wish I could have written that! It's just right. Have you really got a purple butterfly tattoo? I'd love to think so.

Age is another ism that shouldn't matter - we are all just people

I have only just realised at the age of 49 that I am no longer a girl! so if I became a woman at 49, gawd knows when I will become middle aged

At 63 I feel I still have the best of both worlds.
I've acquired some wisdom along the way, (mainly from making lots of mistakes but trying to learn from them) but I'm still fit and active enough to explore new ideas and interests.
I used to be a primary school teacher and always joke that I've taught 8 year olds who were middle aged whilst my older neighbour was still youthful in all the important ways at 98.
I belong to the 'growing old disgracefully' network for older women which was set up to counter the stereotypes about our generation. There's a website if you want to find out more.
When I retired I was a bit concerned about the aging process and how I would deal with it, but through g.o.d. I've met so many inspirational women who still get so much out of life, even though some of them are dealing with physical difficulties, that I no longer worry.

I"m all for getting rid of O A P I think it is awful, how could we go about it ? , I much prefer the term they use the states, which "senior" much nicer don"t you think and not sooo aging or is it only me.

I don't want a label! I'm just ME!!

And I'm me, so are we the same person?

That's three of us, are we triplets?

Any advance to quads?
The idea of hordes of cloned gransnetters

Hello Dee
We have actually met at g.o.d.annual gatherings.
Last one I managed to get to was the Manchester one .
I hope to get to Southport this year.I'm a member of Cybergoddies.
I mentioned g.o.d on a recent thread and had a few enquiries .All were disappointed that there was no group
in their area.

(Mani)

Imagine all of us advancing on parliament !
Baggy to the fore with medusa hair
"united we stand, shoulder to shoulder
All we want we cry, is for you to be fair
To the old, to the young,disabled and able bodied
Give each to each an equal share!

March, march. Etc(the suffragette song. Great tune!)

yes it is a great tune J

jeni

OK, I'll do the staring and looking scary. Other people can do the talking.

Great jingle can talk for any one.
I see us as modern suffragettes in some way. Can you see us all in white dresses with purple and green sashes ,marching down Downing street and chaining ourselves to the railings?
Oh and don't forget the lovely big white hats!

Not in this weather, jeni.