Some people on Gransnet...........

I definitely couldn't say it the other way around ana as I really do look old and feel young (sometimes) .

I know you definitely don't look 57 glass more like 47 !!! So there.

Friday always younger and a night on the Town, Monday back to being Grandma.

gilly I have the number for specsavers in Newcastle

Same here glass definitely the TFI Friday feeling !

I don't need specsavers thanks glass I have a perfectly good monocle that has never let me down!

gilly you are using it on the wrong eye

Oh I can't be glass as I only have the one eye..... As you well know!

Oh I forgot the other was glass

glass definitely does not look her age. They say that running around after little ones keeps you young

but I have short legs!!!

happy celebrations to you Gramps

I too have friends (rather than acquaintances) in their 30s through to late 80s ..I am heading towards 62 so middling! Age is inconsquential..it it attitude to life that counts!

Oh good, I'm middling too - up North that means doing OK 'fair to middling' rather than middle aged

Thank you Nanaej for your kind wishes and "offerings"!
Join me in a cyber celebration drink!!
Cheers young Lady!

I'm also a 50-something chick! (58)

Printmiss is indeed 80 (almost 81!). but the number of years I have lived has nothing to do with how I feel. Sometimes I do feel really old, others I have to remind myself how old I am (that's when I climb the ladder to put the curtains up, or try to lift something too heavy). The computer is good for me, it keeps the grey cells working, together with cross-words and Sudoku. Playing bowls with people who are younger than I also helps me to keep a sense of humour, as they quite often make fun of me (and the other older players, all of whom are mostly better players than the younger ones). I have felt quite sad, though recently, because we have been putting together a lot of our old cine/camcorder recordings for transfer to disc, and so many of our really lovely friends with whom we shared such great times are no longer with us. A life of such a variety of things done, we are both so lucky to have lived so well

I think the younger ones are more inclined to be stroppy. (not all of them though )

I wonder if that is because they used Mumsnet before GN was invented, and therefore developed a harder shell?

(I am not one of the younger ones of course )

My oldest daughter is 50 this year - she made me a grandmother when I was 42 and her daughter-in-law did the same to her. My sister was a grandmother at 37 and a great grandmother at 56, which made me a great great aunt. That sounds older than great grandmother!
I don't mind being 72, except that I am still having such a great life I want it to last for another 30 years, which is probably asking a bit too much!

On the radio yesterday I heard someone say '70 is the new 50'. I'm looking forward to it.

Who you callin' stroppy j07 ????

I don't think you're asking too much Greatnan. I fully expect you to be climbing mountains, snorkelling, and posting on here when you're 100! How many of the rest of us will be here is another matter. But I know we can rely on you to keep the young whippersnappers in place

Thank you dear friends for your kind wishes.
I think that age is in the mind. if you can keep yourself young in mind and spirit; that will help keeping the body going too. (Says he hopefully!) lol.

So sorry Gramps, don`t know how I missed this. Many Happy Returns of the Day for yesterday!

Hello Phoenix,
thanks for the thought dear girl.
I tried to use the IOU in a local shop and they would not accept it as said it was a forgery!
I stalked out in disgust. How dare they, it was a genuine level"A" IOU
from Lil's bar!! Philistines!!

gillybob