We are all ageless on this forum!

Oh yes. she was brilliant. Loved that show

I have Diana from 'Waiting for God' as my role model.

When Gransnet began, I was 70 and seemed to be one of the younger contributors, though that may have been an illusion. I'm still here, not saying very much because I've probably said it all at one time or another. I've made friends over the years, some of whom I've met and others I feel I know very well though could be wrong about that. In a couple of weeks I'll be 85. Far from being a younger gran, I'm a genuine 'old timer'.

I am the same bolshie independant person I have always been. I have white hair now but what they dont know is that I was a redhead, and they certainly get a shock if they talk down to me, or think I am so gaga that I dont know what I am doing. So must look up gangsta granny, as someone told me - as a compliment I think - as I was on my yellow peril that I was like said gangsta granny. Must see if she is as stroppy as me! No that isnt true, I do always begin by expecting people I meet are decent and do as I would be done by. However woe betide those who make assumptions like the wretched sales man of about 25, when I went in to look at keyboards as mine is getting quite decrepid now. If he had asked "Do you need any help" in a polite tone, there would be no bother. However he said in a condescending tone ,"Do you know how to turn it on?" whereupon I told him that I had been running a circuit in overseas telegrams before he was born, was quite capable of deciding what I needed and if he needed any help I could explain in various languages!! He went rather red and backed off, whereupon I calmed down and suggested that he take people as he finds them and does not make assumptions based on the colour of their hair!! Remembering the lovely Patricia Routledge as Hetty Wainthrop, I am thinking of taking up a new career as a detective myself. If you are only seen as a little old lady reading a paper, you would be surprised at some of the conversations I hear going on around me in a cafe .
I was quite chuffed at my adventure to celebrate my 80th birthday, when I organised my trip to Canada and went on the rocky mountain express etc and onto the Athabasca glacier. So have no plans to become set in my ways, and at this time of year jobs can be abandoned if there is a sunny day, to scuff through the leaves, find conkers and make the most of whatever is worth doing, with the excuse that there will be plenty of miserable days later to tidy up or whatever.

I don’t know- it might inhibit discussion if people could be located. There are some bad people out there , I wouldn’t be comfortable with it.

Redactrice

I don’t have a mental image of people who post on Gransnet, or on the dictionary/language website I spend most of my life on these days. In the latter case, it’s sometimes not even clear whether a fellow contributor is male or female, let alone how old they are (although there are quite a few who are obviously well over the hill, like me). But in the case of Gransnet, I do think it would be good to at least know the whereabouts of contributors — if only because sometimes someone is obviously in dire need of help or reassurance, or even just human contact, and knowing their location would allow those in the same area to reach out to them.

A person is always free to PM another offering help or contact gransnet admin to flag up a problem.

Some funny comments, keep’em coming - we need a laugh everyday and you get sick of all the misery on the news! 🍷

I enjoy Countdown but the adverts that they deem appropriate for the viewers of a daytime programme.... Walk in baths, denture cleaners/fixatives, retirement homes, funeral plans and a Saga advert to lighten the mood. However, many years ago, we had an elderly neighbour who had just come back from a Saga holiday and joked with us that the letters stood for Sex and Games for the Aged. It certainly gave us a different perspective.

Growing0ldDisgracefully

Cc I also do gym classes (every day except Saturdays - that's my lie-in morning 😂). Interested to know how they calculate the age thing?

And I don't look like Hyacinth Bouquet...

Was that actually you on the bike? It's a bit bigger than the BSA Bantam I used to ride! One result of things ageing was I suddenly found I could no longer get my leg over (the bike!)

Kandinsky

I image everyone on here looking like Hyacinth Bucket.

My OH used to refer to my once- favourite dress as " your Hyacinth Bucket dress".
I loved it. I didn't care.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Otherwise I don't look like her .....

Of course we are and that is why we send such great posts.

I have a confession to make that l am also a Semi Retired Love Goddess by profession so have never aged since my twenties

Mere mortals eat your heart out.
Never been married or had kids so that has got to be worth another twenty years on my life.

You should just enjoy yourself as much as you can while you can. And not be put down by drudgey earthlings.

And if you want to have Cosmetic Surgery go ahead. Look at Joan Rivers. One of the funniest women on the planet who pulled her panties up every time she smiled.

Her quote not mine.

Choose Life Girls
Xxx

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I know I don’t look like Hyacinth Bouquet either! ◀️

Are you off to one of your Ladies that wine afternoons Fried ? 😂🍷

Grammaretto beat me to it

Now……I always see you more like Rose FriedGreenTomatoes2

Allira

ViceVersa

kircubbin2000

My neighbours have just had their 60 th anniversary and got a card from the king. I had no idea this happened.

It doesn't happen automatically - you need to apply through the government website.

Yes, you do.

We got ours from the King and Queen. I was very disappointed to have missed getting one from Queen Elizabeth. It is the one regret if my life that I never did get to see her..

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I know I don’t look like Hyacinth Bouquet either! ◀️

More like her sister Rose

I know I don’t look like Hyacinth Bouquet either! ◀️

Cc I also do gym classes (every day except Saturdays - that's my lie-in morning 😂). Interested to know how they calculate the age thing?

And I don't look like Hyacinth Bouquet...

I also go to the gym now, nothing drastic just 45 minutes two or three times a week, no running or lifting of heavy weights though! So far, after less than three months, I'm told my age has gone down by three years. If I keep this up I'll be younger than my oldest daughter in a couple of years!

I'm sure that we all remember back to when we were children when our parents and grandparents, once they were in their 50's and 60's, were grey and seemed pretty old.
As a 73 year old I like to imagine I don't look old, but in reality I'm sure that I look pretty elderly in the eyes of anyone young. Age is relative and is in the eye of the beholder!

Usedtobeblonde

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’ll do a search for that, thanks.

I don’t have a mental image of people who post on Gransnet, or on the dictionary/language website I spend most of my life on these days. In the latter case, it’s sometimes not even clear whether a fellow contributor is male or female, let alone how old they are (although there are quite a few who are obviously well over the hill, like me). But in the case of Gransnet, I do think it would be good to at least know the whereabouts of contributors — if only because sometimes someone is obviously in dire need of help or reassurance, or even just human contact, and knowing their location would allow those in the same area to reach out to them.

Recent consultant took 10 years off me !! We are friends for life!!
I am 75 currently in Sicily and walked 7 miles every day since we landed but I am chilling now! Age is but a number

I spent many, many years being told I looked so young, people thought my son was my brother or his friends thought he had an older girlfriend, couldn't get served in a pub and having alcohol refused in restaurants. So incredibly embarrassing and I really hated it.
Unfortunately that is definitely no longer the case - with bells on!

I had a sub to the gym and a personal trainer in my 70s, and used to walk miles in the countryside. Now 85 all the exercise is taking its toll and osteoarthritis and heart failure mean sitting at home most of the time although getting out to see friends at least once a week is a must.