Can we relax, please?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

jings We both have scoliosis. The spine does it's own thing. Can't do a damn thing to change it. Never mind, as you say, I too feel better now than I did a year ago. Positive mental attitude works wonders.

Was this thread really a year ago ?! Can't believe it!

I think I feel better now than I did then.

Was J0 only on no 4 then? How time has flown.

I found some of the posts on this thread very enlightening.
I think it deserves a further airing.

Think I said this once before on a similar thread.
Worked very hard for my wrinkles.

There is a problem though. Because of being slim and shapely ,the view from the back is lyceum but from the from the front it is MUSEUM.

Me too nanaej

I must be the exception to that rule!!

Oh yogagran ...is that why I can't sing???

Big boobs = big lungs

She has still got a lot of lung capacity.

I find I can't talk for so long on one outward breath. Bit weird.

Yes yogagran ...she definitely still got what it takes!!

Thought she was one of the highlights of the performers

Did you notice Shirley Bassey at last nights concert - she's 75 . . .

Gardening does count.

I can climb hills! And do my exercise bike. And walk for miles.

It's not all bad!

glamma I think it is doing us the world of good. Himself has all sorts of back and arm issues which he says are helped by going to pilates. We are lucky that all the teachers in our group are working physios so know exactly what we should and should not do and adapt the excercises accordingly. We have classes at all levels and can move up to a higher class if we wish. Most weeks I now go twice, once with DH and then a harder one on my own. It is the first time in 44 years of marriage that I have been better at something physical than him! He used to thrash me round the squash court.

If I miss a week my muscles know the next week which is good because it shows I am working.

I'm not a good swimmer so walking and pilates are all I do unless gardening counts.

Is pilates that good alison I keep promising to have a try at the classes that are available locally I think I will give it a go,I do go swimming and walk alot but something a bit differant would be nice.

Take up pilates jo4 it makes a huge difference and can be done at whatever level you are up to. I can now touch my toes without bending my knees for the first time in my life and I have been doing it only 2 years. I would recommend a daytime class as all the youngters go to the evening ones! I had polio when I was 7 and now have quite a pronounced scoliosis which seems to bother the docs and physios far more than it bothers me.

Retirement is great, I get fitter and fitter, climbed the Malvern Hills to see the beacon last night.

But it gets so hard to stand up straight as you get older Alison. The spine doesn't seem to do its job as well as it did. I have, to sort of, heave! Otherwise the rib cage is sitting on the stomach.

Oh God! What a state to be in!