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

snap Riverwalk, I too am 58 just

gramps

gillybob

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!!

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

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.

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

Who you callin' stroppy j07 ????

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

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!

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 )

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

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

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

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!

but I have short legs!!!

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

Oh I forgot the other was glass

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

gilly you are using it on the wrong eye

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 I have the number for specsavers in Newcastle

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