Gransnet?

Elegran you didn't used to be that much older than me! You sure you're not cheating?!

......... J07 wanders away wondering if she's 71 or 72................

Look at your birth certificate. I reckon it's 71 if you're having that kind of memory loss Rose

Meant 72! Blimey I'm as bad! I think I'm 68

jingle I think 71

Yep, agreement all round, except about how we say the same thing. Isn't that what gransnet is partly about?

It's just that I don't feel younger than I am. I feel a great deal more mature, mentally, than I did when I was younger. I suppose my personality has stayed pretty much the same as ever (contrasuggestible, argumentative , among other things), but that's not, to me, feeling the same as I did when I was younger.

Maybe what it boils down to with me, is that I've always been content to be the age I am. I never could get into the teenage angst of trying to look older than I was. In fact I usually looked younger – bus drivers only believed I was old enough to pay full fare when I had a baby in tow in my mid-twenties. Now, I'm happy to be 57; I'm happy to look 57; I'm happy for people to think I'm getting older; I'm happy for people to notice my hair is greying and my sking is aging. Bottom line, I suppose, is that I don't care what other people think I am.

So I have no need to feel younger or older or anything other than what I actually am, both in my mind and out of it.

Proud to be (mostly) silver, but refuse to be pigeonholed as a silver surfer. I like the title 'Gransnet' and am sure I would never have joined if it had been calle 'silver surfers'.

And I don't care if people think I'm a silver surfer.

Wish I could windsurf on the silvery loch I can see out of my window.

Song in head....

"I am what I am..."

How does it go?

Silver surfers are much, much older than we are! They also have tight perms or a cottage loaf hair-do, loads of wrinkles, lisle stockings (also with wrinkles) shawls, an apron and, most probably, a rocking chair where they knit bootees!

skybluepink 'Gransnet' was sort of born out of the hugely successful 'Mumsnet'. The name was just obvious for it.

Enjoy.

The Dido version

what?

I mean, pardon?!

" I am my own special creation.........." Bags

Oh no, that's not Dido. (I am a poet and didn't know it)

Well, I'm that too, gillybob, as are we all, but I'm not so fond of that song

It's ok! I'm with you

Why does 'Gransnet' focus on age? Grans can be in their 40s or 90s so to assume we are all 'silver' is not a good idea. I'm not silver so wouldn't qualify.

I think people mean different things when they say 'I still feel in my 20s/30s/40s. Some of which are silly/negative and some of which are good/positive. Without explanation it is not always possible to tell which. I most certainly don't feel as old as many of my own age and think my attitude is much younger than some of half my age!

I became a Grandma at 38.

I too get irritated by all this emphasis on 'staying young'.

When you are 70 ( my age) you shouldn't be feeling like you are 30 inside IMO.

Anyway, people only think they do. They've just forgotten what it's like to be young.

I don't think it does focus on age so much, as we know we are a variety of ages, we just have this one thing in common, and it is a big thing , we are all Grandparents. Age has got very little to do with it.

And you're only 40 now glass.

I loved that!

The Dido song.

Ah! That would explain it, petallus. Delusion!

Grannyeggs I was referring to the word as used by the OP, not Gransnet, hence the quotation marks.