Gransnet?

Is it worthwhile commenting on the last few posts? No.

Good thing you didn't then, eh Kali?

Well, I've learnt something this Sunday morning, which I enjoyed because it got my brain ticking over. I realised - thanks absent and bags - that I didn't really know the difference between logical and rational thinking.
A quick buzz around google - and now I do.

Yes, Butty rows = bad, arguments = good. A healthy debate and friendly negotiation takes effort and thought. We're all able to do that if we choose to

Bags - I shall investigate and if there are any I shall bring them to *Elegran's for you on Burns' Day !

"the quick" is the living, sensitive central part of something. As in "the quick and the dead" which, if I remember, is in some liturgy or other. I know someone will tell me!

'From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead' - I think it's part of the Apostle's Creed. Not bad for a Humanist, renegade Presbyterian?

I am old enough to know what I like and young enough to enjoy it ...whatever age I am

NellieSmol...that's my girl.

It all reminds me of a friend of mine who used to be a district nurse. She said 'Nice young people become nice old people and usually have visitors or near relations who care. Nasty young people become nasty old people and are often left alone at the end'.
She maintained that a very old person with no one, had often brought it upon them selves. Especially the men who had sometimes been terrible fathers.

So there you are no one need become a crabby old woman but if we don't die then we will become old.

NellieSmol Alternatively, perhaps you're old enough to know better and young enough not to care.

I never thought of it like that Margaret. I have always felt sorry for lonely old people but maybe I should sit back and see if they did bring it on themselves. I suppose it doesn't apply to really old people as their friends may have already died. Maybe not though as a lot of my friends are much younger than me.

absent that's the one

Your friend wasn't necessarily right MargaretX. A lot can happen in the years between a person being young and becoming old. Circumstances and life events can change people.

And even if an old person does seem "nasty" that is no good reason for letting them be alone and unwanted.

Marelli heading for the shops #bravegirl

Especially at quarter to nine this morning when I was still asleep!

What is all this "Message deleted by Gransnet for breaking our Talk Guidelines. Replies may also be deleted."? Why are posters putting that up?

j07 I don't think posters put up that message; I think it's GNHQ isn't it?

Oh. I thought when they put it up it had a GN name with it. Perhaps not.

Take no notice of me.

Besides, I don't think posters can delete other people's posts or even their own for that matter. It must be GNHQ.

No. 'curse they can't!. I thought Sel had put it up. #feelingstupid

course not curse!

I'm going out.

With all my family, except for one son who lives in the UK and a brother - my siblings, other son, grandchildren, nieces and nephews all live thousands of miles away.
I'm lonely now, so I'll probably be a lonely old woman. Doesn't mean I would have brought it on myself.

Butty Of course it doesn't. No doubt some people are just nasty and drive others away but certainly not all who are lonely deserve to be. My mother outlived all her siblings and was a widow for the last 24 years of her life. She wasn't completely isolated and she spent the last six years of it with Mr absent and me, in a house that was always full of visitors, but it wasn't the old age she had envisaged.