New Gransnet Movement – "Old Pride"

And me

Bump!

Do let us know about any good stuff you find that looks at aging in a positive way

Have liked FB page.

Hi, Pittcity. I've not seen your postings before.

I am pretty new to Gransnet and took on the job of local editor for Colchester, Essex last Week.

Have just Liked - as myself and also as both my Gransnet Local FB pages

FB page looks good. Have 'liked' it.

Bez. I stick to Pittcity for all my social networks, emails etc. I find people using real names one minute and tags the next very confusing.
BTW my real name is Caroline.

I will be 60 on 11july and fell very proud of my age never hide it or lie about it

I am old; I know I am . and with that knowledge comes power! My grandchildren say "Can we use your laptop?" and they now know the answer.NO you cant. AND they know that I mean it. We have got to stop being the benevolent nice person;(although I love them to bits) and they know that, too.Its the same with the kids in the street, playing football, and making a nuiscance ; powergran here will go out and tell them in no uncertain terms to go away!!!!!We all have that power, to stick up for ourselves;Margaret \Thatcher wise; I am up for us aall; to wear our lines with pride. Sod the Botox etc.,I am a nice person; I am a wise person; I will demand respect .Lets get out there and show the world what were made of!!!!!!!Bring it on!

I'm not old, I'm just not as young as those born after me. At 77, Waking up in the morning is the first thing to put a smile on my face.

dragonfly...I love your take on not being old

At 66, I consider myself to be approaching late middle-age.

Hello Notso, many thanks for your kind comment. Life can be hard but Smiling takes no effort and makes everything better for free. Have Luck!!

I am cheered when I smile at someone in the street and they smile back.

In spite of a few internal "bits and bobs" that have gone on a walkabout, and a few [percieved by others possibly] external imperfections - thinning hair, laughter/sorrow lines, baggy knee-caps, floppy bot, one not-so-good eye/ear, two synthetic hip joints... I am happy to be 71 years old me. I could not have said the same when I was 17. Just saying...

There's old and old. I can understand WH going to a tea dance if they want to talk to people who perhaps married before the war and are still going strong. But there are the 'young old' of a different generation (or two) who, if WH want to interview them in say a decade's time, it won't be at a tea dance because our youth was probably spent in a field at a pop festival or a rave in a London warehouse.

Honestly, I think we should all just get on and live our lives and not care two hoots about people who try to pigeonhole us - especially those pesky advertisers! We don't have to pay them any attention.

I am currently reading All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West. It's a lovely book about an 88 year-old woman remembering her earlier life conforming to society's expectations and then going entirely her own way when she becomes a widow.

Even in the 1930's when this was published there was a conversation going on about age, stereotypes and women's roles!

Madrigal try The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.

Count me in - where's the Facebook page? Don't do Twitter, though.
soop, I just read your post as having two HYPNOTIC hip joints!

MarelliTwinkleToes So that's why I can do "the twist"...had you been on the G&T? Or, was it that you'd mislaid your specs...
Wish that I could join you at the planned tea party. Can't you move Edinburgh to some place like Inveraray? Bags will confirm that the George has a cosy snug...

Bags certainly will! When's the next snug meeting at the Inverary snug, soop?

marelli – https://www.facebook.com/EmbraceAge

Good morning, Bags...how about the end of May?

I've spent far too long on the Embrace Age forum...I love it. x

I see we have a new ikon! A birthday cake

Oh yes! Wonder if it's only temporary, for Gransnet's second anniversary?