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63 Not Out
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Anthony Eccles

Happy birthday for tomorrow Stu, 63 holding down two jobs and an allotment, well done mate, and wish you many more.
Aug. 14, 2011  (Edited Aug. 28, 2011)
 
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Steve Coffin

Well done Stu Congratulations on reaching the same age as me!! Soon be on the blue diamonds! Have a great day Cheers Steve
Aug. 15, 2011 
 
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Graham
Have a good one Stu. Three years ahead of you but there is still life in the sixties (like there was in the Sixties if you are lucky!!) Graham
Aug. 15, 2011 
 
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Stuart Stickler

Thanks guys, have had a spiffing day, well evening anyway, been out for a meal at a friends tapas bar, so full of tasty titbits and red wine, and more importantly looking forward to the next 63!! Stu PS Did the rock and roll bit at the end of June. The only thing missing from the 60's was the drugs and sex....lol!!
Aug. 15, 2011 
 
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John Stickland

Good to hear that you had a super day Stu. Don't know if you got my message on facebook as the computermabob keeps going off with the fairies again! However, glad you managed to squeeze in a couple of glasses of red. Have fun. Sticky.
Aug. 15, 2011 
 
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Mike Hallett
Avid readers of this community may just recall that I made a posting almost exactly a year ago to the effect that I was celebrating my early retirement from teaching after 32 years at the chalk face. As a result, Mrs H decided she would cash in her sabbatical entitlement and join me (for the first time in our married life) to do interesting “things” together during the sunny intervals of June. There is a biblical quote which lurks from RE /RS days “praise be to God that I am not like other men” (I may have got that a bit muddled, but you get the general drift). Well, one of the more gentile things we did was to visit a number of National Trust properties in the south Midlands in our trusty two seater. We were appalled by the droves of cauli-tops, crumblies and the generally decrepit that we encountered wherever we went! It wasn’t until I caught myself saying to Mrs H one mid-afternoon at Hidcote Manor that it would be nice to have tea and a scone that I realised that we ourselves were fast becoming (if not already) fully paid up members of the senior citizen brigade. Help…get me out of here…was my panicked response….and remains so! I’m mountain biking 10-15 miles 4 days a week, taking on some long distance walking challenges, doing a significant piece of historical research for my LA as well as doing many of the domestic duties that I’ve managed to escape for donkey’s years. If anyone catches me indulging the modern equivalent of a “Sunshine Coach Tour with you very own professional guide” I implore them to get out the humane killer and do the decent thing! Cheers, Ranging against the advances of time. Mike
Aug. 17, 2011 
 
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Graham
Mike, Having been able to indulge in 'Snowy Top' spotting since 1997 (Judy from 1998) I am staggered at the sheer quantity of food & drink they seem to require. Every coffee house, cafe and pub is mobbed by them. Some must be our age, but appear really on their last legs! We have not got religious with our 'Gentile' behaviour (!!) but hit the National Trust & English Heritage too. Only some walking & gardening but seem to keep back Tempus Fugit at the moment. Our kids keep us up to speed when we go on holiday with them, and of course there is the long walk to the White Hart at Ford and back!! The one thing I now find is all that multi-tasking from running a school/classroom has gone. I now take all day doing what I once did in an evening. The 'leetle grey cells' get stimulated daily though through writing, and it is satisfying to be referred about as a 'veteran contributor' in one specialist magazine where I have my own column!! Pleased you had a good year and that the humane killer is not required. Graham
Aug. 21, 2011 
 
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John Stickland

Nice one Graham, strange how, as you say, the wrinklies get everywhere but one can't seem to relate to them, in spite of the fact that they seem to recognise you as one of them!!!!!!!!!! Unable to get my twenty five year old brain around it, mirrors are banned in our house, thus the body must be twenty five as well, so why do people keep treating me like a 68 year old????????? Even 'er indoors is beginning to look like one now, can't think what the world is coming to! The pub at Ford does sound very attractive, don't know that one, guess I may drop in one day, just to test, you understand........ Have fun all. Sticky.
Aug. 24, 2011 
 
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Mike Hallett

Went to a Prescott Hill Climb meeting earlier this year where bikes were the order of the day. We parked the car in the field as directed and made our way to the ticket tent. A sign read "Over 65s half price". Neither of us were close to that age but the youth managing our transaction jumped to the conclusion that we were a pair of fully paid up wrinklies and charged us a fiver each. It's times like these where one's honesty, pride and a desire to get a cracking deal conflict. Do I let the little b....r get away with it, do I accept that he was saving us the embarrassment of declaring what he thought was our advanced age OR do I sink my differences and accept the cheap deal. No prizes for guessing which option we went for. Mike
Aug. 27, 2011  (Edited Aug. 27, 2011)
 
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John Stickland

No contest Eh Mike?
Aug. 27, 2011 
 
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Graham
Of course you did the honest thing Mike!! Not like my two buddies a few years back. When we attended Beltring's War & Peace Show I am two years older than them so rubbed in getting a cheap ticket. They said nothing in the queue and got the same. I made them buy the beers at lunchtime. We get the smarm from door keepers. "Oooh you aren't really that old are you?" I was called "Dear!" in the bakers shop last week. Made my day! White Hart at Ford overlooks the By Brook that eventually flows into the Avon beyond Shockerwick bend in Bath. Ancient coaching inn with outside gardens and reasonably priced food. Free house. Cycling mmm! Would you believe I taught Cycling Proficiency all my career but have not owned a bike since 1967? Don't do as I do, do as I say. No one ever asked.
Aug. 28, 2011 
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