Yeah nice one mate I’m pleased for you in fact, a ‘‘soul mate situation’’…a bit like my Mam and Dad in fact,.and my grandparents before them.
Sorry about her Alzehimers…a 'kin horrible thing to watch.
But tbf you are a lot older than me, I was referring more to blokes in their early 50s to late 60s who act, dress and behave like they are 20 years older,…it’s more fun going to a funeral than being stuck with them.
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The type you instantly regret saying..
‘‘Hey how ya doing mate’’, cos they go on to give you their complete medical history…doom and kin gloom.
The ones who stopped going out in their mid 40s because they were …‘‘Now to old’’.
They can’t/won’t, do this that and the other anymore ..‘‘Cos I’m getting too old now’’ …sorry but these guys just do my head in…
Look on the bright side of life, count your positives, live yer life you are a long time dead.
Her father thanked me for taking her of his hands.
The Alzheimers ?? she takes a pill a day to slow it’s progression, a year into it and we are managing well.
Enough about the old dear, what about me and all my aches and pains?
Oh, and Mr robroy says 'But tbf you are a lot older than me, '…cheeky bugga, I’m only 86.
You don’t need to tell us about your aches and pains , just raise a glass to the fact there’s still some younger people like and @robroy who look up to and appreciate your generation as you lived as kids though the war and had to still struggle with the after affects when you started work ,
My aunt was nearly 90 when she went last year and some one asked her once if being a kid in the war was fun , She let them have it with both barrels no holes barred
We’ve been married 53 years & were courting for two years, we were still going away to classic car weekends & weekend music festivals with the caravan in tow until pretty recently, but when parts of the anatomy started to wear out on us both we called it a day on going out for the weekends as my missus mobility has got worse over the years & she needs wheel chairing everywhere nowadays.
Yep again mate I was not just being crass and referring to genuine cases.
CAN’T physically do stuff as in your case is a lot different to WON’T do stuff and using getting old (when you are not really) as an excuse.
I dread getting that way myself as I try and enjoy life to full potential.
I would have taken early retirement years ago but I want to maintain a quality of life, instead of not going or not affording to go anywhere or do anything…my pension fund aint to great, as I thought at the time I was too young to bother. so my own fault.
I’m currently pursuing trying to get every 3rd week off work unpaid leave to go away with the Mrs more often and maybe spend a couple of days away with my old Dad.
I’ve already cut back to 4 dsys with nights out (usually 3 and a half) but still sometimes get to 50 hours on a busy week, but mostly around 40+.
Spent too much of my life away in a kin truck..there is much more to life than that.
DO NOT give in, my father was 96 when he passed away, it is my intention to beat that.
‘You know who’ is only 85, I’ve only recently persuaded her to stop driving the Jaguar, she b loody terrified me, she had a passion for ‘warp speed’.
In the last week I’ve had the hairdresser ask me if I’m a pensioner, young lady said I’ll get the door for you , and everyone has started to say are you ok sir ( I always associate sir with older people) & cousins send birthday card with a silver fox on it , others say your never 64
Yeah ok… but I aint always just done that, I’ve spent lot of my working life, maxing out weekended abroad etc etc and all that sh …and as an o/d in past nearly 7 days a week.
I just took stock before it was too late, and while I was still fit, about 11 years ago, looked back on my life seeing how much I missed, kids growing up etc, family life, and I thought …F. it enough’s enough, I’m either jacking or cutting back before it all starts telling and showing on me.
There’s at least 2 guysI know around my age been in job as long as me and tear arsed all their lives who look about 80 ffs. b0llocks to that.
And for last 10 years or so I’ve cut back more but gradually, and as I said I’m planning to go on 3 weeks on 1 off, on a 3and half to 4 day week.
I feel much better for it.
I have no debt, all I have is paid for and the Mrs works 2 to 3 days in an office…so no probs.
If I wasn’t an animal lover, I’d be rich! Just been to B&M for a bulk bag of birdseed £25, 6 boxes of suet balls, £11, bag of cat litter £17, assorted cat food/dry food £48. Plus the bloody dashcam in the car is on the blink, this is the second Nextbase dashcam that’s gone belly up. I don’t like driving without one because of the sheer number of knobhead drivers.
The internal batteries on their dashcams are crap, Just ordered an HP dashcam online whilst they’re on offer with a super capacitor in it instead of a battery.
Anybody else on here suppin’ loose tea? I’ve gone back to loose-leaf tea & a teapot. That Ceylon black English breakfast loose tea off the eBay is good stuff.
It’s just got a lovely taste & I can drink a teapot full at a sitting. I know everyone’s tastes are different, but it tastes good to a lifelong tea drinker.
A good tea you can drink all day long,
A bad tea is like drinking dishwater
Like ciders a good cider and company will get you drunk and happy
A bad one will leave you feeling rough and down
I’ve recently got into green tea. Have a couple cups a day.
For normal tea was given some twinning English breakfast tea bags and taste so much better than usual typhoo. I buy a box as and when as a Treat to expensive to drink all the time thoigh
I’ve never tried that green tea, I’ll have to give it a go sometime.
Changing the subject, I don’t know what it’s like around anybodies else area’s but this Halloween stuff is getting bigger & bigger with more houses dressed up than ever before, One chap at the end of the road has gone to town with a 6-foot-high ghost train type tunnel full of skulls, spiders, bats etc. I bought a big bag of Halloween toffees at Aldi, as I think we’ll be in for a lot of kids calling on Halloween night.
I don’t like driving without one because of the sheer number of knobhead drivers.