Why?

Some gransnet members are in the customary age group for this site but have no grandchildren at all. But this doesn't matter either, if you like the site and it raises issues you are interested in that's fine too.
I used to go on the saga site but think that's gone now. I enjoy being on here and check in most days. I haven't found one I like better.
It's not all about grandchildren and it's not all about old age either

it not kit*

I also don't like so called age appropriate clothing. who makes the rules anyway?? I think kit depends on the individual, what they feel comfortable wearing, and what THEY think suits them, it has nothing to do with anyone else. If it fits you, and YOU think kit makes you look and feel good then go for it

I also do not have a clue because I also go straight on to the forum posts.

Sorry I didn't notice as I've been away I'm glad its removed.

Where is the cake? I jump straight to forum posts from emails.

jings as ever !!

Tanith your little grumble worked - they've removed the Over 60s bit!

I never see the home page, I come straight onto the forum part of the site.

I ve no idea what you re all on about I haven't got any raincoats on my page

How young and green the programmers must be, and how scared of older people to start the age group they are looking for at 40, before anyone starts to age to any extent these days and assume that by 60 we are all past it. Perhaps they should get out a bit more and widen their horizons.

Agree Tanith especially about the raincoats thing! I remember some daft woman on the radio some time ago, saying that there should be a Radio Station for those over 60!

Ok, so you go to bed one night listening to (whatever takes your fancy) and the next day, wham! It's your 60th birthday and your musical taste has entirely changed!

Utter codswallop, and that's the polite version!

Now, just insert your own version of that post for raincoats.......

Just seen that makeover thread. They are looking for women 40 -60 ? I am 72, and never seem to fit into any of these categories

Tanith Absolutely agree with you. Nearly every time someone runs a thread about age appropriate clothes or something suitable for someone over 60 or pontificates what 'we' older women want I usually post a winge on the thread.

Related to that is to lump all women of a certain age together as if we we are all identikit 50, 60 or 70 year olds. All of us know from our friends that some people age better than others (I will not say look young for their age, I think that is insulting).

I have a cousin with very little grey hair, slim and dressing like her daughter and looking great, then I have a good friend, much the same age; white haired by the time she was 60 and with the supersoft skin and fine wrinkles you mainly see on women in their 80s and dressed in clothes best described as 'age appropriate'. Looks, taste in clothes, all are completely different.

I think once anyone (M or F) passes 40 there is so much diversity in every aspect of the population that age is irrelevant as a definer of anything.

roses I was 19 and my daughter 18 but at least it seems my granddaughters have more sense than their Mother and Grandmother

Wow Tanith what a young gran you were.

I must get back to my ironing!

Horrendously expensive, I thought.

Its an ok article but why label them as 'Stylish Raincoats for over 60's'? So anyone under 60 beware they aren't stylish enough for you.

If you answer this jings we'll all know you aren't GETTING ON WITH THE IRONING

But get rid of that cake!

A short fat barrel.

I like the Seasalt one. But the horizontal stripes might make me look like a barrel.

Oh come on! In all seriousness, it's a good article.

Quite agree Tanith

We may be a bunch of old grannies of a certain age but .... can you see any stylist offering Macs for the Over 60s to the likes of Helen Mirren, Joanna Lumley, Susan Sarandon, and they're over 70!

Madonna is nearly 60, maybe she'd like one

What's wrong with a nice placcie mac anyway?

And while we're on the subject of the front page, we've all seen quite enough of that over-iced sickly looking rose cake.