Spring forward, Fall back

[Doug]

Be grateful you've made it to 'old age' a lot of people don't, or won't get the opportunity.

I was just showing some sympathy, having worked bloody hard all my life then for the last few years doing next to nothing I get so stiff when I do something, but believe me we both feel so priviledged being in reasonably good health, especially having this last couple of years loosing friends and family to covid or the great killer so it seems these days. Cancer.

[L Austin France]

Be grateful you've made it to 'old age' a lot of people don't, or won't get the opportunity.

I was just showing some sympathy, having worked bloody hard all my life then for the last few years doing next to nothing I get so stiff when I do something, but believe me we both feel so priviledged being in reasonably good health, especially having this last couple of years loosing friends and family to covid or the great killer so it seems these days. Cancer.

Old age ain't for Wusses.

[Veem]

Come off it you lot. You're mostly youngsters. My very dear aunt will be 110 next month, has had a hard (as opposed to easy) but happy life and I have never heard her complain. I expect I moan more than she does.

Old age doesn't come alone, but we didn't expect anything else did we? When it hits though, I do agree it's a bit of a bu99er.

[Doug]

Talking yesterday about "when we were young"with the fuel crisis and threatened electrict cuts now.
Well remember the 73 crisis when costs doubled, then again, being a builder I had just sold my first property purchased back in 1960, purchased a 1/3 acre plot and designed then put up a three bedroom house. The land cost me £4000 with the house being about the same for materials.
Then came the oil crises and in 76 I sold said house, went to OZ for three months, came back and another 1/3 acre cost £10,000 with a three bedroom bungalow costing £20,000 in materials.
Going back to my yuff I was the fourth of six kids and grew up till 14 on my old mans farm with no electricity or heating and hot water. How my poor old mum managed I will never understand.
I was walking 2 miles to and from school and from 9 years old worked on the farm evenings and weekends with the shire horses or driving an old fordson tractor.
Call me a miserable oldun, but I'm always saying lots of people these days don't know they are alive.

[Hotrodder]

Luxury.
When I were a lad we lived in a cardboard box in the middle of the road.....................
See Monty Python sketch for the rest of the story.

[Char]

[Blaze]

[Loup-garou]

You're lucky to find a cardboard box these days. Lidl's are always perforated and useless and LeClerc, Inter, etc, all flatten um.

NB polythene bags are dangerous and children should not be allowed to live in 'em unattended!