Well it's finally happened!

I was filling out a form recently, then came to the age boxes which required a tick, 25-35, 36-45, 46-55, 56-65………other!!
I’m now officially an ‘other’ ?. Could be a whole lot worse couldn’t it lol

Kali2, it’s a friend’s own shopping trolley- just a big shopping bag on wheels really. Not a supermarket trolley! Yes, we have returned it. It was very handy for transporting the picnic.

I got my state pension when I was 62 while I was still working. It was a great booster to my income as I was able to pay my rent with my part time salary. It took a while to adjust to just having my pension when I retired at 65.

Car has now gone to scrapyard in the sky.
Delores , shopping trolley,pimped up and ready for action.

I'm looking forward to my 66th birthday in two weeks time when I finally get my bus pass, which will save me quite a bit of money. I always thought I'd get it at 60 but they changed it to coincide with the new pension date, as soon as I was approaching 60. I stopped working at the start of the 1st lockdown as a childminder and haven't felt confident to restart, and at my age am considered by many to be too old to look after their children, despite regularly caring for my four grandchildren. I'm just surviving on a small pension from a previous job, so now I will officially retire and finally get my state pension. I'm no spring chicken but enjoy being around young children, they keep me young in some ways, maybe not physically!

Congratulations! I'm 60 next week but received my 60+ free travel card yesterday. Now feel officially old!!

My daughter used a shopping trolley at university. It was pretty and useful and meant she could do a big shop without hurting her back.

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Happy birthday.

By coincidence I watched a programme at lunchtime with Ben Fogel in which he spent a week with a 70 year lady who lives in Ethiopia.

She was a teacher - home economics - and also caring for her Aged Ps who were in their nineties. They died just before she reached retirement age. She'd never married and had no children (but does have other family)

One day a neighbour invited her in for a drink and showed n album of photos taken of a school that he'd had built in Ethiopia. She decided to do it as well as she wasn't quite ready to go into full retirement.So she went to Ethiopia, planning to stay for 2 years. The school was built and during this time she met a businessman (younger than her, with a family) and they became friends and also business partners.
They built a restaurant, a weird and wonderful shape, very high up on an outcrop which overlooks the most amazing landscape.

The restaurant employs 50 young people, all from the local area. This has meant that some young have come back to their home to work there. She said that by employing 1 one person it meant that a whole family could live.

She has embraced the Ethiopian life and, although she is not religious she participates in religious ceremonies because it is part of that way of life. Once a month a Coptic priest goes to the restaurant in order to bless it. She lives in a basic shack (with a fridge for wine and beer) but the electricity goes off every day which can makes life difficult at the restaurant.

She took Ben Fogel to the school where there were probably about 50 children and they all looked beautiful and healthy. One child proudly showed her how she'd covered a book with newspaper to protect it.

I could go on because she was so inspiring. Her life now is not for everyone but the message that I took from her was that it's good to have something useful and uplifting to do in retirement. She was extremely happy and also healthy. (A lot of walking)

Where on earth to do you borrow a shopping trolley? Have you returned it?

PS I’m seriously considering getting one of my own!! Just won’t mention it to the boys!!

We borrowed my friend’s shopping trolley in May to transport the picnic food for us all. We took the family to the zoo for our Golden Wedding Anniversary as we couldn’t have a big ‘do.’ All felt safe in the open air and was a lovely warm day - the grandchildren loved it. Our two sons ribbed the shopping trolley unmercifully and only took a turn with it reluctantly- poor hubby ended up pulling it most of the day - he didn’t mind, was quite light. All agreed it was a great way to carry a picnic and they were grateful they didn’t have to lug food around in their rucksacks. They just didn’t want to be seen with it themselves, ha, ha.

I beg you (and everyone) drop the OAP tag
Annodomini Please include me out of the "everyone" bit!,
I find SOAP more endearing!

DD also had a wheeled shopping bag when a student, in her case to get home with sacks of oinions, potatoes and other fruit and veg that she would buy for pennies at 4.00pm on Saturday afternoon, when Lewisham market closed for the weekend.

I used a wheeled shopping trolley when I was a student because where I did my laundry was a mile and a half from where I lived and wet laundry weighs a ton.

Don't be ageist.

grannyrebel7 I am a good 10 years older than you and, actually, nothing has changed for me either. Ignore the stereotypes (including that dreadful poem about wearing purple and being a batty old lady) and just continue life as you have always lived it. It works!

Has anybody on here come across this group of Street Entertainers, while on your travels? Granny Turismo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1NXtX2l_6Y&t=32s

Thanks all I'm still working, decided to carry on for another year. Nothing will convince me about shopping trollies, but I much prefer the more respectful 'senior citizen' as opposed to OAP or just 'seniors' as they call them in the US.

Join the red hat ladies, wear purple clothes with a red hat. They are fun, I’ve been a member nearly 15 years now.

Congratulations on being a Senior Citizen.

I retired in January 2020; retirement hasn't been quite what I expected so far!

Happy Birthday, young lady! Please, please, I beg you (and everyone) drop the OAP tag. It's so out-dated. We haven't, as long as I can remember, had an 'Old Age' pension. It's a retirement pension, I may be 80, but I refuse to be called an OAP. So there!

Many Happy Returns

Grannyrebel7. I too get my pension later this year. Yay. But Ive decided age is just a number and doesn't reflect state of mind. Doesn't stop me wondering where the years have gone though.

Happy Birthday !

Those shopping trolled are very useful. Only thing is , I hate them when they are used at shows and exhibitions. The times I have fallen over them in a crowded aisle or had the little stand legs pushed into my ankles.