Gransnet?

coo-ee Bags! I liked your song.

Kitty watch out, I'm growing my hair so that I can go back to my cottage loaf!

I could till a few years ago though – less than a decade. Not bad.

Like being able to dance through the pain barrier. Couldn't do that now.

What annoys me is that when I was a teenager they had only just been invented so we didn't make the most of it! Also when I started work, the bosses were all in their late 50s or older. When I got to that age, the bosses were in their 40s and I was old enough to retire.

petallus, ana, Quite. I haven't forgotten. I had masses more energy when I was younger. I miss it.

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

Ah! That would explain it, petallus. Delusion!

The Dido song.

I loved that!

And you're only 40 now glass.

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.

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 became a Grandma at 38.

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!

It's ok! I'm with you

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

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

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

I mean, pardon?!

what?

The Dido version

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

Enjoy.

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!

Song in head....

"I am what I am..."

How does it go?

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.