Can we relax, please?

AlisonMA I had a school pal with polio when she was seven in the fifties, and it left her one leg shorter. She went in a sanitarium for what seemed like ages. I wonder if she has problems like scoliosis now. I do know she had children and managed to work and would go hiking. I wonder if she would have made a fuller recovery with today's advanced medical treatments.

Having caught an episode of NCIS the other day....was much impressed with Jamie Lee Curtis....she looked elegant AND very natural.

Jamie Lee Curtis is another one who looks better and better.I suppose I like her because she's never been a girlie person but IS always elegant. She doesn't seem to have had any work done either I was quite impressed that they thought it was OK for Gibbs to have an affair with someone his own age rather than a little Bimbo.

I have just got back from a really excellent amateur production of Calendar Girls which isn't for the faint-hearted but those women performed faultlessly. A couple of lines by the oldest member of the cast:
"I've never had a problem with age. Age has only ever had a problem with me."
At the interval the Leukaemia Association was selling fridge magnets with those lines. Of course I bought one.

If this thread is a year old, was Yoko Ono slightly less barking?

Love the quote anno. Calendar Girls gets better by the year.

Looking at my friends and at photographs of parents and grandparents I think on the whole, and I agree there are exceptions, people in the UK are showing visible signs of aging more slowly than in the past.

Looking at the parents of the happy couple in three generations of our family wedding photographs. Each set of proud parents looks younger than the generation before, even though the difference in ages is less than 5 years. It is not a question of dress, black & white versus colour photography or quality, faces and hair are greyer, more lined and figures more elderly.