What do you think will go with us older generations?

Choirs. Sadly very few young people seem to join community choirs (…men participating is nearly always an issue!). Along with that is the loss of the shared sense of joy in singing together.

Making the bed - whats the point if your only going to get back into it?

Hand writing (apart from shopping lists)

Saving things like odd buttons, string, etc. Everything will be recycled or put in recycling bin

Visiting the GP (already gone)

With the dumbing down of the English language through text speak I wonder if anyone will be able to read Dickens in the future. They simply won't understand it as the words have more than one syllable.

Oh no it’s gone already!
Is it ok to say that?

Free speech.

Musicgirl. My dad took me to the cinema every week from the age of three. Silent films. “What are they saying, Dad”. I saw the first bit of colour film. The ballroom scene in “The student Prince”. The audience stood up and cheered.
I am still a film fan but still prefer those of the thirties and forties.
My brain is OK but body not so good.

Intelligence and independent thought will follow reading to oblivion.

Having said that, the Dark Ages never really left us. About five per cent of the population at any time know what’s what.

My book group gradually abandoned books for Kindles, then transferred to Audible spoken books. They are mostly back to real books again.

I never abandoned books.

The

Planet

@Bijou, I love reading your reminiscences. The fact that your mind is so razor sharp and that you are so up to date with modern technology at 99 is wonderful.

My grandmother remembered silent films, my mother’s piano teacher actually played the piano for them. My mother’s parents were among the many who bought a television for the coronation. We had a black and white rented TV until I was eleven. These memories and the links with living history they provide will be forgotten. My mother’s age group and older (she is eighty) and, perhaps, slightly younger, are the last to remember George VI and the Queen’s coronation.

Hope not!

@Bijou I was thinking of links to a bygone age. My Nan lived with us when I was little and always saw a lot of her, so when I'm gone that will be a link to a Victorian that has gone, how she dressed, the first world war, etc. Ny children did know her and remember her but not the stories and how she lived and etc
Your memories must go back via family to a lot longer ago, my mum who would have been 96 this year remembered her great grandfather who was born in the 1850s
I know it was ever thus but what a big change from the Victorian era to what it is like nowadays

Setting the table properly

(1) The NHS
(2) Humans at the end of a business or government telephone
(3) Decent state education
(4) Affordable mortgages for the masses
(5) Politeness and civility
(6) Clean air and clean oceans
(7) Peace in Europe
(8) Human rights
(9) The fun of driving a car
(10) Affordable rail travel
(11) Honour and integrity in government
(12) Personal freedom as we've known it

Victor Meldrew

Cars with drivers

Manners

Respect

Full on monarchy, and hopefully the use of HRH. His or Her royal highness just sounds so silly in this modern age.
Tea sets with matching cups and saucers.
Having photographs in frames standing on the furniture.
Hand knitted jumpers.
Gas boilers for central heating or gas anything.

Maybe not there are several outfits in my area where you can only pay in cash, no cards, checks etc accepted.

Mallon my 21 yo GD asked me to knit her a 'bottom drawer' of baby clothes. She has no intention to start a family for some time, though she's got an 'intended'. She just loves the idea of hand-knits for when the time comes. I hope I'm still around to meet my prospective Great grandchildren.

I've seen so many new things come into being, in my lifetime. Plastics, jet engines, computers, electric cars...too many things to mention. I probably won't notice the demise of a lot of the things which may disappear. Most of them won't vanish before I do, anyway!

Manners and respect for others.

Mallin

Babies wearing hand knitted clothes wrapped in hand crocheted shawls.

DIL loved hand-knitted clothes for the DGC, that's what started me off knitting again.

Now they're older they won't wear anything hand knitted.
But they do like crocheted blankets.

I'm sure, with the price of fuel going up, they'll be in demand in the future.

The Monarchy.
Church going
Marriage. So many couples just live together now)
Good manners
Memories of the 1930s. (I am 99)

Health and care services free at the point of delivery. Books and newspapers in printed physical form. Free libraries. Handwritten letters. Knowledge of grammar and spelling. Fluency in written English. Hot water bottles.

The NHS