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63 Not Out
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Aug. 27, 2011
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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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