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Wend

Wend Report 29 Nov 2011 22:29

Just noticed that this thread has appeared again - looked at 'last post' and saw ZZzzz and thought - yes, at 10.25, that just about sums me up :-(

Researching:

ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 29 Nov 2011 22:16

My Dad used to say he was as old as his tongue but a bit older than his teeth.
And for years he would say he was 37, then when it was my 37th birthday I told him we were both the same age. :-)

Researching:
Frame mainly from. Reading Berkshire. Vos from Netherlands. Nelson and Sowerby from Newcastle. Pickles from Saddleworth and Australia. Bainbridge from Durham. Willmot, Wilmot. Wilmott from Berkshire.

Bertett

Bertett Report 29 Nov 2011 21:45

An old friend sadly long gone once said that he had only lived" 94 summers and 94 winters and that isn't very long"
He was right it isn't when put like that.

chris :-)

Researching:
Yates,Tonks,Dale,Cranage,Spink

Dermot

Dermot Report 28 Nov 2011 22:04

Getting old is better than the alternative.

Jean (Monmouth)

Jean (Monmouth) Report 28 Nov 2011 19:52

I said to someone when in my thirtys, in the 60s, that i was an ex army nurse. Where were you stationed during the war, was the reply. My answer, at my mothers knee, I was only five.
My war was the Korean and malayan emergencies.

UzziAndHerDogs

UzziAndHerDogs Report 28 Nov 2011 17:02

the replies have made me grin :-D

Researching:
Turner, Staniforth in Beighton and Ridgeway Sproat in Sheffield and Cumbria

Dermot

Dermot Report 28 Nov 2011 16:07

I'm as old as some of my teeth.

Stan

Stan Report 28 Nov 2011 15:56

Groaning when you bend down

Researching:
Dennis ,Measham .Blount , Polesworth-Baddesley. Taylor Kent,Vidler London

Dermot

Dermot Report 28 Nov 2011 15:33

Growing old is as inevitable as melting snow.

'Emma'

'Emma' Report 28 Nov 2011 15:09

When the candles cost more than the birthday cake. :-D

Emma x

ElizabethK

ElizabethK Report 28 Nov 2011 14:56

A guest on Radio 4 recently said old(er) people should not worry about getting forgetful.....

he sent his 6 year old daughter upstairs to get some jeans,after a while a plaintive voice called "daddy what did I come up here for" :-)

Jean (Monmouth)

Jean (Monmouth) Report 28 Nov 2011 14:52

Wend, thanks for that!
when the thought of going to the hospital is more often, can I last out or will we need to find a loo before we get there! Our hospital is 20 miles away. Having waited an hour in the waiting room, just as I get up to revisit the loo my name is called and I have to choose between losing my turn or staying dry At 76 and on three water tablets a day there is little control :-D

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 28 Nov 2011 12:28

ZZzzz - he has a very dry sense of humour - this certainly left me in fits of laughter!

ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 28 Nov 2011 08:26

LOL chris of Wessex. your son has a good sense or humour. ;-)

Researching:
Frame mainly from. Reading Berkshire. Vos from Netherlands. Nelson and Sowerby from Newcastle. Pickles from Saddleworth and Australia. Bainbridge from Durham. Willmot, Wilmot. Wilmott from Berkshire.

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 27 Nov 2011 22:39

When you used to say 'I wish to go all the way' which meant to the terminus!!!

Speaking to son last night asking how he enjoyed the concert of Gerry and the Pacemaker - he remarked he must have been the youngest there and that he had bnever seen so many zimmer frames and walking aids in one place - that it was no place to pick up a woman unless she had fallen on the floor!

ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 27 Nov 2011 22:29

Anninglos. It hasn't happened to us yet, but it is a scary thought. :-0

Researching:
Frame mainly from. Reading Berkshire. Vos from Netherlands. Nelson and Sowerby from Newcastle. Pickles from Saddleworth and Australia. Bainbridge from Durham. Willmot, Wilmot. Wilmott from Berkshire.

Bertett

Bertett Report 27 Nov 2011 22:16

When the mind is willing but the body is weak.

chris :-D :-D

Researching:
Yates,Tonks,Dale,Cranage,Spink

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 27 Nov 2011 21:48

When your Grandchildren take out a mortgage.

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

YorkshireCaz

YorkshireCaz Report 27 Nov 2011 20:37

ZZzzz, when my youngest son is a policeman, that makes me feel old.

Caz

Researching:
Davies, Kitson, Cooper, Dewsbury, Eccleshill in Idle, Bradford

Wend

Wend Report 27 Nov 2011 20:27

74? - you are a youngster! And if your body still looks 31, I wouldn't worry about the chassis!

*tuts* - wish my body looked 31.

Wend :-D

Researching:

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