Oh, we used to like those.

And these days I think I look like one

Thank ee kindly for the offer Nonu but I think my feeling was that you and soon are very alike in many ways and see eye to eye on so many things. Anyway, three's a crowd

Problems with handling pills? Ask your chemist to dispense them in a rosette box!

What's a rosette box, Galen?

I have memories of a judge at a gymkhana choosing the appropriate colour to pin on a bridle

Hi inishowen,

I think the waiter may have been winding you up.

It happened to me in my late forties with bus drivers asking if I had a bus pass? and did we qualify for an OAP deal in a restaurant.

When I look at old photos I didn't look anything like 60 something and neither died my DH.

I love being an OAP now. I flaunt my bus pass and demand that my gas and electricity meters are read because I can't get at them easily.

When you meet people in the west country they say 'All right'? when often I may not be all right.

And I dislike "name droppers". Who would want to ride the 27 bus with Alan Sugar?

I think he was being ironic, tigger!

PS. and perhaps you should read the "Oldie" if you did you would not only find some extremely interesting articles (especially since they have a new editor) but also realise they don't sell barbour jackets. However, if you fancied a massage by a discerning lady who operates from Maida Vale then you're in luck.

Don't throw them in the bin, donate them to your Dr's surgery so at least some of the patients would enjoy reading them.

Bridge..... the OG tells me it is the Bridge Clubs busiest time of the year consequntly he is out every night (including this w/end) until the end of the month.... all I want is some sun on these old bones but going away is out of the question unless someone has a magic wand!

Only 15 - he's not trying hard enough!

Eloethan -

Being told the financial crisis is all our fault, infuriates me. Oh and we are also responsible for the crisis in the health service.

And some of us are taking up jobs that could be given to younger people, so we are increasing the jobless figures.
If we stopped doing that, tho, we might need to become benefit scroungers.
Maybe we should do everyone a favour and just top ourselves (joke).

My DH says he agrees wholeheartedly with number 11.

Alleluyah! So i'm not the only one who spends her life dodging all the pedestrians who seem to consider they have right of way! As for mumbling actors on TV, add on totally unnecessary background music and the fact that half the channels don't seem to do subtitles. And has anyone found a way of getting subtitles on programmes they've recorded, which DO have them when watched at the time of transmission?
Then cartons and the such like.... even worse are the 'safety' caps which have to be gripped at the sides and pressed down on top at the same time. If only I could invent a device to do this for me I'd be a millionaire and happily pay any tax you like!!
As for the Oldie - never seen it, but my ex husband's 'revenge' was to make me a life member of Saga, so I got their magazine for years until I said I'd receive it digitally and it's never appeared - Hooray! I don't want to hear about loads of OAPs who have developed this fascinating hobby or become a wonderful - if smug- volunteer, or as mentioned, read loads of adverts for things I dont want, or cruises I can't afford.
I make no apology for being a grumpy old sod - I did try not to be. Never normally make NY resolutions but this year I decided that I was becoming too much of the stereotypical grumpy old git so resolved to try and be more positive.
Woke up on New Year's Day to find the boiler wasn't working. That was the end of that!!

I got the Oldie for a couple of years. It is definitely not like Saga - The contributors are old but most of them were controversial and iconoclastic when they were younger, and have not repented. Some of it is distinctly acerbic. No stairlifts or fascinating new hobbies. No articles on what colour eyeshadow goes best with white hair and wrinkles.

It got a bit repetitive after reading it for a few years, and when I found issued from two months past still in their plastic wrappers, I cancelled my subscription.

I think I still have some old copies stowed away somewhere. If anyone would like a taster, I can post you one.

John Sutherland - you should READ The Oldie, not chuck it away. It is a very good publication - informative, educational (yes - even for grumpy old men) and funny.

My best anticipated Christmas present is the yearly subscription to the Oldie from my daughter. It was always enjoyably witty and irreverent under Richard Ingrams and I was worried when he was forced out. The new editorial staff have taken a bit of time to get up and running into form but it is getting there.

I could add another dozen to these easily, but it's the gremlin in the house I have issues with. We have had one for donkey's years and it is no use being grumpy with it, it doesn't respond. It behaves much better if asked politely to return the missing article(s). My DGS stayed recently and one of his socks managed to find its way under the large throw covering the settee and right to the middle, not just under the edge.

11 definitely.
Tesco used to stock The Oldie so I picked up a copy now and again and enjoyed it.
Not seen the mag for a while though.

No. 3 definitely but also in supermarkets...I'm sporting a 6 inch long blue bruise on my hip from a 'gentleman' in Waitrose yesterday who not only barged into me with his shopping basket but having knocked me flying turned round and said 'Get out of my way'! My friend and I were speechless......

10 I am absolutely sure the print used to be bigger . I've tried squinting, taking glasses off etc now have to resort to printing out the maps I need, A to Z heading for charity shop

You get a better class of bruise in waitrose.
Seriously though loopylou, hope you are soon better.
Some shoppers are really inconsiderate and no mistake.

Like Phoenix, the Oldie rejected me - well, my idea for small articles to be submitted by readers, who would be paid for their short anecdotes. I have several which have been pronounced hilarious at dinner parties. The idea of the oldie Editor, that readers only want to read stuff penned by celebrities is totally wrong. I understand they don't want the Oldie to turn into Readers Digest, but there's literary snobbery afoot here.

I don't know where you got that idea from, Jaxie.
The February 2015 edition of the Oldie has articles by Nicholas Farrell and Liza Campbell featured in the front cover.
There are also articles by Rachel Kelly, Raymond Briggs, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Alan Rusbridger and Lucinda Lambton, and lots of others.

I have heard of some of them, but I doubt if any of them would like to be referred to as 'celebrities'.