Seems a long time ago that we were young. Been camping for 45 years starting out with a 2 man tent. Boy have we had a good time & continue to do so!
woolman said
09:33 AM Feb 24, 2017
Growing old is better than the alternative.
Neil
Laridon said
10:51 AM Feb 24, 2017
Hey I am still enjoying my first childhood :)
Possum3 said
11:21 AM Feb 24, 2017
I'd much prefer to be an old has been - rather than a young never will be
Goldfinger said
12:30 PM Feb 24, 2017
All valid replies...does anyone else tend to do what find myself doing, namely, at whatever age I've been up to now, I compare what my now departed parents and grandparents were like at the same age....I visualise what they looked like..meaning how old they looked, and what they were doing at the time that interested them and more importantly how they related with our family/my brother and sister etc...and as Sonny and Cher sang....'the beat goes onnnnnnn'....Hoo Roo
the rocket said
06:33 PM Feb 24, 2017
Never thought i would b old. I guess every day above the ground is a bonus
Lol.....I don't mind being called 'Senior'....it comes with a 10% Discount......
Which reminds me of the old joke..
Just before the funeral services, the Undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked,
"How old was your husband?"...98, she replied...
"Two years older than me."
"So you're 96", the Undertaker commented..
She responded, "Hardly worth going home, is it?"......
Hoo Roo
macka17 said
10:47 PM Feb 24, 2017
Dunno about you lot.
But I've been growing oldER.
since the day I was born. 75 now.
Just implanted $30 odd grand worth of electronics under my skin,
in my spinal chord and spine.
The battery packs last, on average. 10 yrs.
I want at least ONE changeover, to get my moneys worth hey.
21 days today and counting.
It's HOW you grow older. NOT the doing of.
Specially when you look at some of them Jeez.
I've worked bloody hard at it.
and Ain't nowhere finished yet. I hope.
Hey Jim said
10:58 PM Feb 24, 2017
Goldfinger wrote:
All valid replies...does anyone else tend to do what find myself doing, namely, at whatever age I've been up to now, I compare what my now departed parents and grandparents were like at the same age....I visualise what they looked like..meaning how old they looked, and what they were doing at the time that interested them and more importantly how they related with our family/my brother and sister etc...and as Sonny and Cher sang....'the beat goes onnnnnnn'....Hoo Roo
Hi Larry,
I had to think for a moment, Make that a long time.
I was very young when my gran parents were alive on my fathers side. There were so many siblings, I being the youngest of 9, I only saw my grand father a few times before he pasted. My Nan was great on the Easter eggs from Darrell Lea with this yellow yoke fill.
I never new my mums parents at all. Not my mums fault whatsoever. I remember my mums home cooking , Sunday roasts. Family picnics with all the cousins. I lost her when I was just a kid. But I have her geans good and proper, Cause I can sure cook up a storm. Just the same as hers. She is in my heart every day.
My father well He did his own Golf thing with his mates. All I wanted in my life as a kid,was to go fishing/ camping with him. It never happened.
Slowly over with family time together, we have gathered many old photos and had them reproduced, and shared with family.
I met my sole mate and together we were blessed with our two. The four of us did the lot together. We took so many photo's our home is filled with them.
Then came Facebook. I to, am starting to feel my age.
We did and still do, so many family things together. Never forget the past. At Sixty I ride a motor bike again. Never stopped Camping/ Vaning Now/ Fishing is in my blood, And some more O/S travel.
-- Edited by Hey Jim on Friday 24th of February 2017 10:59:57 PM
The Belmont Bear said
07:55 AM Feb 25, 2017
Last week my wife and I came back from a trip up the north coast of NSW where we took time to visit a lot of the little places that we spent our misspent youth surfing, fishing, camping 40 odd years ago. Unfortunately a lot of the sleepy little fishing villages the coastal vegetation, even the sense of being alone had disappeared and had been replaced by housing estates, resorts, golf courses, shopping complexes etc. this was not only sad for us but probably made us realise that we came from an era that has now long gone.
Hendo said
08:54 AM Feb 25, 2017
Don't complain about old age, it doesn't last very long.
Hendo
Ron-D said
09:20 AM Feb 25, 2017
The really good point about Old age is you don't have to go work ,you don't need as much money because you have not got many years to spend it see it's not too bad hope this has cheered you all up
Phil C said
10:35 AM Feb 25, 2017
I love talking about "the olden days" with my grandkids. I used exactly those words "olden days". Yipes the olden days have caught up with me and now I talk about NO TV, milk carts (with a horse), walking to school, 2 bob got you a sandwich and an icy pole etc.
As far as body and soul go. I have a 25 year old mind and attitude locked up in a 600 year old body.
Curse arthritis. Curse broken back, Curse creaky joints and leaky **** stuff. Curse taking 5 mins to get out of bed....
The good side... we now sit up and watch TV (colour, flat screen), drink good wine, chomp on savory stuff till 0100ish, sleep till oh who cares. Have our home on wheels anyplace we want and NO agenda or appointments (other than doctors) to keep. We cruise as often as we can, next one to Seattle in 2018, then by train to Canada.
Wouldnt be dead for quids.
navynurse said
11:08 AM Feb 25, 2017
As Oscar Wilde said "Youth is wasted on the young"
Allan
Moorey said
12:09 PM Feb 25, 2017
Best thing I found about getting old is the amount of money I save by not buying marijuana. All I have to do is bend over and quickly stand up straight.
Same effects, no cost and you can do it as many times a day as you like.
Moorey
PS Make sure you have some pillows spread on the floor around you.
Goldfinger said
12:30 PM Feb 25, 2017
Agreed....and the biggest gripe of retired Grey Nomads?...there is never enough time to get everything done...how did we ever 'squeeze' a working day into our lives?....
Who else finds doing nothing Monday thru Friday, and then on Saturday and Sunday we need a rest?.....lmao....Hoo Roo
Hey Jim said
04:08 PM Feb 25, 2017
Larry,
We have been retired 9 months. We are so tired and get so buggered too. How we ever fitted work in, still makes our minds spin. Our bodies are telling us to take a long holiday and go fishing in moderation Plus. IMO.
Do you know Duncan too.
The Belmont Bear said
05:52 PM Feb 25, 2017
Good point Moorey but nowadays if I end up on the floor I find it more and more difficult to get up.
Lancelot Link said
03:14 AM Feb 27, 2017
I am not an old retiree, lost my soul partner last year, but I am finding getting older to becoming faster. Each day I look back at stuff around the house and want to part with it, it is a hinderance with wanting to get on the road. Lately, I look at it, a library of animal and bird books, collection of hand painted ceramic port bottles(still full), plates with hand painted bird pictures, wedgewood and other collectable stuff. I feel old because once they were worth something, now worth nothing!
I just need to get on the road.
Goldfinger said
08:59 AM Feb 27, 2017
Couldn't agree more Lancelot/Peter, we're having the final big push of our "stuff" at the moment..some on Ebay...for others to ""enjoy"".....we had all those nature sets of CD's of birds yodelling/calls...now we sits in the scrub/donga and listen to the real deal...all the best..just 'do it'....Hoo Roo
madaboutled said
04:40 PM Feb 28, 2017
I think the "Ork's" had the best idea by being born old, as did Benjamin Buttons curious life....
Seems a long time ago that we were young. Been camping for 45 years starting out with a 2 man tent. Boy have we had a good time & continue to do so!
Growing old is better than the alternative.
Neil
I'd much prefer to be an old has been - rather than a young never will be
Never thought i would b old. I guess every day above the ground is a bonus
Lol.....I don't mind being called 'Senior'....it comes with a 10% Discount......
Which reminds me of the old joke..
Just before the funeral services, the Undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked,
"How old was your husband?"...98, she replied...
"Two years older than me."
"So you're 96", the Undertaker commented..
She responded, "Hardly worth going home, is it?"......
Hoo Roo
But I've been growing oldER.
since the day I was born. 75 now.
Just implanted $30 odd grand worth of electronics under my skin,
in my spinal chord and spine.
The battery packs last, on average. 10 yrs.
I want at least ONE changeover, to get my moneys worth hey.
21 days today and counting.
It's HOW you grow older. NOT the doing of.
Specially when you look at some of them Jeez.
I've worked bloody hard at it.
and Ain't nowhere finished yet. I hope.
Hi Larry,
I had to think for a moment, Make that a long time.
I was very young when my gran parents were alive on my fathers side. There were so many siblings, I being the youngest of 9, I only saw my grand father a few times before he pasted. My Nan was great on the Easter eggs from Darrell Lea with this yellow yoke fill.
I never new my mums parents at all. Not my mums fault whatsoever. I remember my mums home cooking , Sunday roasts. Family picnics with all the cousins. I lost her when I was just a kid. But I have her geans good and proper, Cause I can sure cook up a storm. Just the same as hers. She is in my heart every day.
My father well He did his own Golf thing with his mates. All I wanted in my life as a kid,was to go fishing/ camping with him. It never happened.
Slowly over with family time together, we have gathered many old photos and had them reproduced, and shared with family.
I met my sole mate and together we were blessed with our two. The four of us did the lot together. We took so many photo's our home is filled with them.
Then came Facebook.
I to, am starting to feel my age.
We did and still do, so many family things together. Never forget the past. At Sixty I ride a motor bike again. Never stopped Camping/ Vaning Now/ Fishing is in my blood, And some more O/S travel.
-- Edited by Hey Jim on Friday 24th of February 2017 10:59:57 PM
Hendo
The really good point about Old age is you don't have to go work ,you don't need as much money because you have not got many years to spend it see it's not too bad hope this has cheered you all up
As far as body and soul go. I have a 25 year old mind and attitude locked up in a 600 year old body.
Curse arthritis. Curse broken back, Curse creaky joints and leaky **** stuff. Curse taking 5 mins to get out of bed....
The good side... we now sit up and watch TV (colour, flat screen), drink good wine, chomp on savory stuff till 0100ish, sleep till oh who cares. Have our home on wheels anyplace we want and NO agenda or appointments (other than doctors) to keep. We cruise as often as we can, next one to Seattle in 2018, then by train to Canada.
Wouldnt be dead for quids.
Allan
Best thing I found about getting old is the amount of money I save by not buying marijuana. All I have to do is bend over and quickly stand up straight.
Same effects, no cost and you can do it as many times a day as you like.
Moorey
PS Make sure you have some pillows spread on the floor around you.
Agreed....and the biggest gripe of retired Grey Nomads?...there is never enough time to get everything done...how did we ever 'squeeze' a working day into our lives?....
Who else finds doing nothing Monday thru Friday, and then on Saturday and Sunday we need a rest?.....lmao....Hoo Roo
Larry,
We have been retired 9 months. We are so tired and get so buggered too. How we ever fitted work in, still makes our minds spin. Our bodies are telling us to take a long holiday and go fishing in moderation Plus.
IMO.
Do you know Duncan too.
I just need to get on the road.
I think the "Ork's" had the best idea by being born old, as did Benjamin Buttons curious life....