General Chat

Hi Janet
I had sent you a pm ....have sent another lol

I think that's great you were nominated for local hero award,you must have deserved it.Good prizes :O)
Mau xx

Did any of you watch "The Young Ones" on TV tonight?
It made my day to see the state of some of them.I am not the oldest on here,I'm 75 but feel 25 most of the time.I'm fortunate that I'm still quite mobile and look after my 76 year old husband who is housebound and do lots of jobs that you expect a man to do.This afternoon I spent in the garden cutting a BIG bush down as our YOUNG gardener hasn't been for 4 weeks,...always an excuse.....Will probably pay for it later...but you have to think positive even though we have challenges in life.
It will be interesting to see the next episode of the TV programme as they have been taken back to the 70's.
I also wouldn't be without my computer.It can be a life saver for a lot of older people.

Hello Mau at the coast,
All this time and you still havnt told me which coast ha ha.
Keeping you up to date, my mum is still with us and it is hard work. She knows she is older!!! but not that I am ha ha.
On the brighter side, My eldest (without telling me) nominated me for a "Local Hero" competion. When the local paper rang to tell me I had won I did not have a clue what the woman was talking about. So for doing things that come so natural to me ie caring for my family I was given a fantastic day.
I came home with a dress, jacket and shoes by David Emanuel, free hair does for 6 months vouchers for all sorts of shops including a cakr shop for a celetration cake. As it is my husbands 65th next month we will use it for that. i do love the conversations and help I have had from you all and thank you all so much.
Love to you all
Janet (In Paisley) but from near the coast ie Tynemouth xxx

Jean, the auctioneer at Newport was Hayley Empress of Drama.... who is no longer a member of GR.

I am an in betweeny myself, by the way.... a bit young, a bit old, and totally zany, lolol

Love

Daff xxxxx

Age is all in the mind. The secret is keeping it from going southwards.

Happy days

Life is like a hot bath - it feels good while you are in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkly you become.

Was that Shelly the auctioneer I saw on here? If it is, welcome back!

Well Shelly you woz talking about tills too ;O) lol

and yes mental arithmetic is good for you.

~~~~~~ to BC Elizabeth and Awdrey and all the other old girlies ;O)
mwah XX

Hello all my fellow Silver Surfers and Hello Mau on the coast still paddling along thankyou, it is good to read all the answers, I find it keeps my brain ticking over especially when having a good search for something, makes you think laterally as well as backwards,

Many Blessings.

Awdrey.

Mau - I think why you - we - can do these sums in our head is because we all used to have "mental arithmetic" in school- oral sums, and what's more none of them were decimal! not money, or weights and measures - I am safer doing sums than using a calculator!

Looks like Awdrey is the Grandma of GR followed closely by Elizabeth! `Any more for any more! I am far too young... *ahem...* to be in the running, being a mere stripling of 74 but I think we are all wonderful and I now cannot imagine life without my computer.

BC XX

Well first thing that sprang to mind Shelly was adding up in your head!

After I took early retirement ,from full time job,i found a few hours work in a local shop, There were five of us ladies aged over 50yrs. and of course there was a till,but all of us could add a good few items up in our heads, and reach the total quickly (and correctly) ..........we 'amazed' the 2 teenage Saturday girls....but made them laugh when we gave each other high fives lolol .......

Dear Ladies

Hello

Hope you are all keeping well,

I say stuff to this age thing!

Age is just a number.

Nowadays, people of all ages are learning new skills, making friends and enjoying themselves.

I am very happy to see so many positive posts on here.

Take gentle care all
Very best wishes

xx

Me-I will be 82 in February next -grandma and great grandma

My computer went sick and I was a whole week without it-withdrawal symptons ++ !

Lets call it the Silver revolution. With all us computer users we could take over the world!

Just wanted to take this opportunity to pop on and say a big hello to Awdrey who I've missed seeing.

Hope you're well,would you like to be Grandma? :O))

Mau XX

And remember for some of us oldies (76 me) the computer has been a real blessing. I have become too deaf to use the phone or the radio but with e-mail I can communicate with friends and family, and shopping, without asking for help, get the news and a lot of information from browsing - and of course the interest of being able to pursue a hobby like genealogy on line! the last few years would lhave been pretty bleak without my computer.

Rita, you may be one of the oldest on here, I dont know, But OH has a cousin of 94, who keeps in touch with his family by e-mail and is very competent. More power to his elbow I say.

You all sound such great girls! Just like my 96 yr old m-i-l, who says she still feels 17 inside and would love to use the computer, but can't because her eyes are failing. She always wears make-up and nail polish and does the cryptic Telegraph crossword every day (and usually completes it!)

Hi, Janet, I didnt start using a computer until I was 70, now at 75 I am like Jean I buy lots on line from clothes to craft stuff and all sorts inbetween, I go all over the world thanks to Google eatrh or maps, I have a mind of a 30 year old but the legs have a job remembering that I love being on here I have made many lovely caring friends, life is a b****h but are we downhearted we are NOT !!!!
have great day,

Jean x

This old lady would love to use her bus pass, but it means someone has to take me two miles to the nearest town to catch one, and meet me coming back! My brain feels young enough, but the body Ugh.
I enjoy seeing the look of disbelief when I say that I shop on the internet, or that i have researched something on there. Also the photo on my bus pass was taken by me, printed by me. I know quite a few people half my age who are terrified of computers. Look at the lovely people i would not have 'met' on here if I didnt use one1