That's not me

??? hilarious agnurse! Like my darling GF said he'd have to start taking his whisky with ' a wee bit water' .....on his 93rdbirthday. Darling boys

I have a friend who even her children don’t know her age, however someone joined a group I went to and knew her as she went to school with her, it appears she was older than her husband and he didn’t know. She didn’t acknowledge the woman and did not return to the group, I find it funny, as if it matters. You’re as young as you feel, some days I feel a hundred.

I heard our GP surgery was calling all elderly patients over 50 that need to get their boosters to call for an appointment. Over 50s are elderly! I was not a happy bunny hearing that.

My 96 yr old MiL keeps me feeling young. I have just driven her home from the station. She spent the Christmas hols with her DD. We got in her house and she pushed me out of the way when I put the kettle on and said she was doing it.
I have felt exactly the same for years but I must say this year I am looking older. Being a widow is taking its toll or maybe the house problems or worries about the DC and DGC.
Covid, climate change, wars all so depressing.
Perhaps I should start wearing makeup or dye my hair?
I'm 73. I think
Some of you have good ideas.

I'm nonplussed when younger people post funny pictures of such things as phallic-looking vegetables on social media along the caption 'My nan doesn't understand why we can't stop laughing'. Why, pray, are older people suddenly deemed unable to get a smutty joke?

I’m 70 and I wear eye make up every day Grammaretto. Without it I look knackered, washed out and years older. Just a bit of eyeshadow and eye pencil take years off. Lipstick if going ‘out out’ which is once in a blue moon, otherwise pink lip balm. No foundation as I find it ageing. Have a go, new year new you!

I knew I was really old recently when the hairdresser asked me if I had a nap in the afternoons!

I was 80 at the end of last month and had a card with read “aged to perfection” which was nice.
These days I think I’m not so much well preserved as pickled!

p.s. A few years back when we could still assemble in the doc’s surgery waiting room for the flu jab, my DH remarked “They must have called us on the wrong day. It’s all old people in here!”

Thanks for the tip
Germanshepherdsmum. I may try that to cheer myself up.
I agree lifebeginsat60 some of us lived through the swinging 1960s. not planning to be around in the 2060s we are fairly unshockable but take longer to laugh

In one organisation I worked for we weren't allowed to.use the term elderly as nowadays it seems to imply infirmity. Seniors, as in USA seems to.be more common. Leave the doctors to.their own devices.

TanaMa, I am 87 but mentally much younger. However, I had my first fall on Christmas night in the garden when I was taking the dogs for their toileting needs. I did trip on a flagstone but yesterday on the back patio for no reason I fell. Luckily a workman heard me cry out and lifted me and took me into the house. He phoned my son to tell him, which was nice of him. However, I am now very worried. I never had falls in London, but here in the Caribbean I have had 2 falls in 10 days. I do not know why. I guess I am physically very old!

Gongoozler that’s exactly the same remark we made when we went for our Covid jabs!

…though on a recent phone consultation with a GP, he did say to me ‘you are only 62’ I could have kissed him!

It’s good to have an old Doctor as then they don’t think your old ! Marmite 32,my friends Mum still made cinnamon rolls each week at 92

I’m continually shocked rigid - most recently at GC nativity where I remarked it wasn’t as busy as usual only to be told in chorus by others ‘This one is for us oldies’
I was stunned and tempted to kick them on shins but they looked very old, so smiled through gritted teeth instead!! ?

So we are geriatric at 65 but can't get a state pension until 66-67 ?

I’ve no time to think about my age(71)…. I have no car …my husband has been an invalid for 26 years( stroke)…. He’s been housebound for 3 years, and a cantankerous did to boot! My days are filled with caring/nursing/ shopping/ and a hell of a lot of walking….7 miles yesterday ….5 miles Monday….3 miles today ( lazy day). I fall into my bed at 9 …. Fall asleep about 2am and am awake at 5.30 every day! Everybody just expects me to ‘get in with it’! Worry if I’m elderly ….. I just worry if I can outlive my husband to save him the indignity of a care home!

My eldest DD is 48 . I am 68 . I am certainly not elderly

Oh dear Saggi sounds like it's all getting a bit much. Why are you walking so much every day as well as all the caring you do.

The hairdressers I go to has recently taken on a stylist who is.......(oh dear I nearly said elderly) she is in her sixties at least, much younger than me.......when I went in to book an appoinment , the receptionist said 'I'll book you in with 'ann') I cancelled later because I didn't want to be booked in with the elderly stylist as a matter of course because I am old.. though I am much older than sixties anyone understand that...... I am sure she is trained up to the minute.

Given half a chance she’d have whipped out the pictures of the grandchildren lemsip. I know where you’re coming from, I’d be worried she would try to talk me into a nice perm.

I was 60 last year and get such a shock when I see it in writing. Every morning I wake up and feel anxious about how old I am. I don’t feel anywhere near this age. I work full time in a college (a job I hate at the moment) and trained as a fitness instructor in my late fifties but when I look at my neck and upper arms (which I swear went from looking 35 to 90 on my 60th birthday) I wonder if people will want to come to my classes (I’m moving to a new area and will be looking for a venue). My kids are in their thirties and I can see their wrinkles appearing which is a bit freaky. Having said that I’m lucky to have reached this age because my mum only got to 48 so I’m 12 years older than she still is (in my head).

I'll be 70 in February. The photo was taken last year, in April, when I did the Captain Tom 100 challenge. I performed 100 karate kata. The terms 'elderly' and 'geriatric' are pigeon holes I won't be climbing into for a good while yet.

lizzy you look amazing!