What makes you feel old?

[T1 Terry]

"What do I do with my old 78s?"
NTNOCN.

T1 Terry

 

[Ian Key]

"What do I do with my old 78s?"

That's no way to talk about your parents

 

[securespark]

Mum will be 90 in December!

Still as active as ever, she drives, goes to Pilates and another exercise class I can't remember the flipping name of, does Aqua classes and she's in the garden all the time. She reads loads of books and watches TV so she's always up to date with what's going on, even in the celebrity world to some "slip of a girl who's only 19..."!

 

[T1 Terry]

My dad would have been 102 this yr and mum 105 if they were still with us .... I wonder what my dad would have though of events today ..... he was upset enough about events in 66 when he died, not quite reaching his 41st birthday.
At 68, mum walked 8kms each way to the shops, towing her two wheeled granny shopping cart, fit as a fiddle right up to being admitted for a colonoscopy .... somehow, they perforated the bowel and she was dead 6 weeks later ........ cause of death, pneumonia not like they'd put the real cause on the death certificate eh

T1 Terry

 

[DBedford]

My mother-in-law is 91, 92 if she makes it this year, and my Mums sister (my aunt is 94), it breaks my heart to reflect on what a mess we have made of our nation in the last 50-60 years. All values seem to have gone out the window, in this self-centre,'whats in it for me' society.

 

[PeterHR2]

"What do I do with my old 78s?"
NTNOCN.

Other companies are available.

 

[securespark]

I remember when they moved from you asking the operator for the number to dial phones. I remember when 78s were a thing. I remember inkwells in school desks with ink in them.

I started secondary school in 77. Most classrooms had new square metal framed tables with Formica style tops but one English teacher refused to reliquish his old oak flip top desks complete with porcelain inkwells.

He would launch chalk or board rubbers at us if he thought we weren't paying enough attention. We would lift up the desk lids to deflect the missiles!

 

[T1 Terry]

Watching the "Celebration of Life" of a friend we knew from the RV get together we attend every yr we can get there ......
He was 6 mths younger than me, not the sort of thing you should watch before bed, that's for sure ......
Another good friend from RV get togethers and our forum here in Australia has his "Celebration of Life" today .... he was a few yrs older than me, but not by much ......

Off for new glasses and find out why I keep going stone deaf in the left ear .... hopefully it's the hearing aid ......

T1 Terry

 

[securespark]

Getting old is no joy.

Someone I knew of died at 61 recently. I'm 60 in August.

It makes you think