Fading Women

Respect ladies ! if I wear leggings I look like a barrage balloon with two bits of rope dangling

dizzyliz -welcome! I'm a great-grandma too (and I also wear leggings!!!)

dizzyliz Greatgrans are surely most welcome to post, wear leggings and have a thoroughly good time...

my first post, loved the poem, lol,yeh really. Question: are greatgrans allowed? To post? To wear leggings?

My mother used to say it is better to wear out than to rust away. But f I was sitting around while she was busy she also said crossly "Wear the old ones out first" so she was not entirely consistent.

Come to think of it, that should be in a different thread. I shall cross post it.

Cheers, helshea!

Ok, i admit defeat, I would rather climb a mountain than crawl into a hole!

It would be a sad world without tigers, but it would be a dead world without worms. I know what helshea was trying to say but ... well ... in short, worms eat the world's garbage and turn it into useful stuff — soil. They are very important beasts, if easy to overlook. Just standing up for worms is all I'm doing.

Maybe it means that life is a tad more exciting as a tiger than as a worm - though how are we to know?

Why?

Think evolution.

Tigers are not better than worms. Worms do a very important job and we'd be stuck without them. Really stuck!

It is better to live one year as a tiger, than a lifetime as a worm!

Pompa - I so agree about growing up - I'm still waiting for it to happen.

Talking of elderly though - I was talking to my husband recently about someone we'd seen who must have been in his 70s and described him as that old bloke, totally forgetting of course that someone is probably describing me, in my 60s, as that old woman. Ugh.

Pompa, a friend who had just become a grandad told me he was delighted , until he realised that he now had to sleep with a granny.

Similarly, if when I was 50, a 36 year old lady asked me out, I would of course have declined . Mrs. P would have killed me. !!! But I can dream.

I wont mind when I am 75 pompa, because I will nearly be there. I was asked out for a coffee by a 43 year old man just last week. When I was 50 I was asked out by a 36 year old Of course I declined, I didn't want anyone to think I was babysitting!

Perhaps, when you are 75, you will then describe a 90 year old as elderly.

How many of us, when we were 20 could ever conceive that we would sleep with an OAP.

Growing old is mandatory - Growing up is optional. (perhaps it is the later that gets me in so much trouble)

I tend to do a slow burn when I read people who are just over 50 described as elderly. I would describe an 80 year old as elderly. I find it difficult to ignore inane remarks and have been known to comment if it irritates me too much.

Ladies, the "One show" at this very moment has the answer, I hardly noticed the guests cleavage as her hair was bright red/orange and very big.
And no, don't encourage me, I will only get worse.

jangly, don't encourage pompa.

Just don't ogle my daughter's cleavage whilst totally ignoring mine!

You won't sleep tonight pompa. and serves you right.

pompa - I don't see anything offensive in your last post.

Come on Granieee, we know they're all the same. They can't help it.

Sorry, did not intend any offence, sincere apologies to anyone who was. This was intended to be a tongue in cheek response.