We are all ageless on this forum!

The consommé could be a problem 😁
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Consommé to start.
Your ideas?

I could lend you my butler James as played by Freddie Frinton, if you like Oreo.

I fancy the beef wellington and the butler 🤭

Of course Oreo and candlelight is so flattering to the complexion😍

Me too! Do we need to dress up?

Ooh I really fancy a candlelit supper!

M0nica

*I don’t think many Gransnetters live in a 1990 time warp Kandinsky, with a weekly shampoo and set, tweed skirts and candle lit suppers.*

Seriously, in 1990? weekly shampoos and sets, tweed skirts candle lit suppers.

The first 2 went out in the 1960s/70s. The third may have drifted on to the early 1980s but effectivley died out in the 70s

You misunderstand me M0nica - those were all things pertaining to Hyacinth Bucket!

I don’t think many Gransnetters live in a 1990 time warp Kandinsky, with a weekly shampoo and set, tweed skirts and candle lit suppers.

Seriously, in 1990? weekly shampoos and sets, tweed skirts candle lit suppers.

The first 2 went out in the 1960s/70s. The third may have drifted on to the early 1980s but effectivley died out in the 70s

Winterwhite, my one and only grandchild is 74 years younger than I am.

I was in TKMaxx a few days ago, trying on a couple of jumpers and got a shock when I looked in the mirror. My hair had turned into a silver cloud! Was my hair at last catching up with my wrinkles and (lack of) teeth. No, although the lightening effects of Summer sun seem not to totally disappear over time as they once did, I have not yet totally lost my natural hair colour. And, if I stand back a bit from the mirror, keep my mouth shut and smile, I can still see the person I used to recognise as me.

Last week, on a bus, a lady leaned over and said "You have a 42 yeaar old daughter?" I said, "Yes, how did you know?" She replied that she recognised me. She had been in the next bed to me in the post-natal ward. I was stunned! And somewhat pleased, I must admit. So, the comment made by a previous poster suggesting we "remain" at 35, seems to be accurate in a way, for me at least.

I think this thread should be under Everyday Ageism! Far too many snide remarks about Saga holidays and blue rinses and thank-goodness-I'm-not-there-yet.

I suppose I would assume that Gnetters babysitting/caring for their grandchildren are younger than I am (GCs late teens/early 20s), and those with great-grandchildren are likely to be a bit older, but I've never noticed or thought about it person by person.

We can blame our genes for the most part.
I have friends who never seem to age and others whose bodies are failing. Arthritis is so common and is very debilitating.

Every time I look in the mirror I think I look more and more like my mother. If I live as long as her I’ve got about 13 years to go.

I don’t think many Gransnetters live in a 1990 time warp Kandinsky, with a weekly shampoo and set, tweed skirts and candle lit suppers. Even my mother was not a subscriber to any of those things now I think about it. Most of us are just physically older versions of what we always were, as I’m sure you will be yourself.

Dylis I remember well, in 1971, having to produce a doctor’s cert saying I was ‘fit to fly’ - because I was pregnant. Maybe they thought that was it ? 😀😀😀I found it most amusing and kept the letter for some time - always wished I could flap my arms and fly !

Haha BlueBelle - I don’t think looking like hyacinth is actually that bad.
I mean, I was going to say Ena Sharples.
< runs >

I stopped dying my hair at 55, greatest freedom, yes, 10 years on I possibly look older than my age but I really like the white/silvery colour my hair is now. It does not make me feel bad.
Sadly with everyday ageism it just adds to how people respond to older women.
I don't want to dye my hair to appear younger, my hair colour does not stop me doing anything I want to do.

Last year I travelled on a Virgin flight from the US.
I'm 65 and when I went to check in I was asked "are you medically fit to fly.?" I was shocked into just muttering "yes" and taking my boarding card with a curt"thank you"
I like to think I'm fairly well preserved, I walk miles with my dog, weigh the same 8 stone I have for years and haven't taken to wearing a twin set and pearls or a blue rinse quite yet.
To make matters worse the young woman sitting behind me was obviously suffering an upper respiratory illness and spent the entire flight coughing, sneezing and groaning about how ill she felt.

I dyed my hair purple during lockdown (and pink before that!) and my GS keeps asking when I'm going to have purple hair again. Currently contemplating if I should take the plunge and dye it for a gig I'm going to next month...

windmill1

Oreo

I’ve sometimes been surprised on here when a poster gives their age and are either much older or younger than my mental image of them😁 but as mum2three says older people as just as variable as younger ones.

windmill 😄 but ……can I throw out the supremely annoying Grayson Perry please?

No you can't Oreo. Put him back! Ciao.

I've put him outside again.
He can stay on the norty step for ever.

DGD asked yesterday why my hair hadn't gone grey like other old people's. 🤔
So I found myself telling her about my youth (oh dear, sign of age!), when it was blonde, red, dark, even accidentally green once.

Oreo

I’ve sometimes been surprised on here when a poster gives their age and are either much older or younger than my mental image of them😁 but as mum2three says older people as just as variable as younger ones.

windmill 😄 but ……can I throw out the supremely annoying Grayson Perry please?

No you can't Oreo. Put him back! Ciao.

We had a thread some years ago now when many of us posted our wedding photos.
As most of them were in black and white it certainly showed our ages.
My own wedding was 67 years ago.

I love to see photos of GNs on their wedding day. So many here are funny, wise, kind, brave and much more. Always good to remember that we were all young once without too many aches or pains but are still the same people inside.

My age was queried last week when I went for my flu and Covid jab. The woman thought I was under 75, I am 82.

On my local Nextdoor, a fellow was offering massages for the elderly at home. He didn't specify the age of the elderly, so I asked why the elderly. The PM replied that none of us ever leaves our houses. Not quite true when many have recently been on holiday to eg Malta. I may not go far, am self-sufficient, and I have two brain cells which meet occasionally.

windmill1 puts it brilliantly. That is one version of old age. I remember a sheltered houseing devlopment near me having an advert that seemed to show the white haired, white teethed couple gurning at the helm of a yacht. Hardly the type to buy small sheltered flats.

Of course the other stereotype of us oldies is the old and frail and needing help and protection and unable to do anything for ourselves, who need our children to supervise our every action.

I think the problem is 'old' covers such a huge age gap from 60s to 90s and more and while younger people do seem to be put into decades, we are all just 'pensioners and younger people tend to see us as just 'old' without discerning that 60 old is different tom90 old.