60 is the new 40

robert plant has been the love of my life for at least 40 years, and isnt he aging nicely! my gd is 11 and has been educated in led zep, ac/dc, etc, she has a quirky nature , loves ab fab, monty python, am reliving my years with her!

Any others into ZZTop and Led Zeppelin? I'm determined my GD is going to grow up appreciating great music!

I too missed the Bob Marley film but noted that the DVD is £13. I might ask one of my family to consider it as a present for me (to keep me quiet and out of their lives)

not sure about bus passes Nannytotwo but you are about right with pension dates!! shame really but same for everyone else!!

my friend as 60this year and she has not got pass yet if that is any help!!

Daman; have you seen the new film about Bob Marley? I missed it when it was at our cinema but it's supposed to be very good.

I liked Victor Sylvester and Vera Lynne, and I don't give a toss whether or not my trousers are fashionable - I just want them to be long enough to be able to tuck them into my thick socks when I am walking. Flapping trousers can be a hazard when walking in difficult terrain.
I am 72 and look it, but I am fitter than I was at 40.

I was in 'Fopp' today happily browsing the Bob Marley and the Eric Clapton discs. Not so 'young' you might say, but at least it was not Victor Sylvester or Vera Lynne.
I am 76. (and male). We are the age we choose for ourselves.

Hi Anne I'm a year ahead of you born in march 1953 the last report of when I can get my pension is when I'm 62 years and 11 months. If I was a year younger it would have been 65 years and 5 months.
Due you still get bus passes at 60 or have that also changed.

well if any other ladies on here born in 1954 then join my boat I have to wait until about 66 I think for pension and any other perks, my husband is 10 years older than me so he has his state pension now but I am not worrying about it just enjoy each day!!

..and I've got to wait 20 years for my bus pass? Not that I'm getting paranoid about it...[me; paranoid ]

Well. You're fit enough!

Does that mean I've now got to work for another 20 years?

janeainsworth I wear them with flat shoes and no socks usually but this time of year I wear them with boots - and again no socks unless it is cold. I wear popsocks with proper trousers though and in winter socks with jeans and trainers - not particularly elegant but my jeans are long enough to cover; it's sitting down that's the problem the legs go up and reveal white legs - ugh!

62? 63? They're just numbers janeainsworth. Who cares?

Just remembered I'm 63

The nice thing about being 62 and not 42 is that I don't have to go to work.......
Can I ask the advice of any jegging wearers here - do you wear them with flat shoes and no socks? I find that uncomfortable and don't like popsocks either.

'Janthea* no way am I ever wearing pop socks and certainly not in tan. Skinny jeggins are fine worn short, as are capri pants ...that's a good look providing your size 10 or less or tall like Marelli
It was bez who said she didn't like them short with short boots.

Thud, thud, thud.....

Go for it, twinkle toes...

soop! That's very kind of you - but I was always known as a 'baby elephant' when I was young and then I grew up to be 5'10"....a bit big for a ballerina! I have shrunk to 5'8" though, so maybe I'll to a quick entre-chat through to put the kettle on, just to see.....no - the only entre-chat is Daisy through the cat-flap!

Nanadogsbody If you wear a pair of tan pop socks, they don't look too bad. Though like you I dislike short jeggings with short boots. They look lovely with pumps, heels or long boots.

Socks with Capri pants can only be worn by skinny teenagers with Docs and spiky dyed hair.

But if you look at some of the new skinny jegging pants they are short - I don't like them short above the boots - did manage to find a pair which were long so will fit into the boot tops OK. Socks with Capri pants is not a good look either.

ella I was walking behind a woman in town today with her black trousers flapping somewhere around the top if her ankle bone and an expanse of fish-belly white flesh between there and the top of her shoes.
Not a good look

Of course, life only began at 40 if you'd been a (Vestal) virgin until then.