Age

[Clayze]

Remembering my five speed Raleigh Arena racing bike from the 70's. Not the last word in technology but had great fun riding it and survived!
Still get a bit misty eyed when I occasionally see one during a window shopping trip on eBay.
I was chatting briefly with a lady who runs an independent charity shop on Friday, the subject of I -Spy books cropped up. I think you received a certificate by post if you ticked all the boxes in your little book

 

[Woody girl]

I recently found a ladybird book on camping that I was given as a thirteen yr old to help me prepare for my girl guide camp leaders permit. Wow it brought back some memories which were lovely until I calculated how many years ago that was.... almost half a century. ..aaargh!

 

[Keith_Beef]

I'll only be old (ish) when I have to stop riding (and, no, we're not talking pushbikes or horses!)

Riding an extremely well-behaved horse makes your muscles work. Riding one who is a bit less cooperative, or whose idea of fun is to try to beat the land speed record, is a real workout...

 

[oldtimer]

You're still young. Ladybird Books were a recently published reading scheme when I was a newly qualified teacher in the 1960s and were what I used to teach my own boys before they went to school. They are now in their fifties and my daughters-in-law hold me to blame for the stereotypical gender attitudes they have had to modify over the years.

 

[Janne]

Stereotypical gender attitudes.

You have a young and agile brain, to process those wordd.

 

[saxonaxe]

Bah! That's not a Driving Licence.........This is a Driving Licence...

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[snappingturtle]

Bah! That's not a Driving Licence.........This is a Driving Licence...

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They had driving licences in the 1640's??

 

[Woody girl]

You're still young. Ladybird Books were a recently published reading scheme when I was a newly qualified teacher in the 1960s and were what I used to teach my own boys before they went to school. They are now in their fifties and my daughters-in-law hold me to blame for the stereotypical gender attitudes they have had to modify over the years.

I learned to read with Janet and John books. In fact I could read before I went to school. Teacher was quite perturbed when at our first reading session I put my hand up and asked for the next one as I'd read it already. She didn't believe me and a letter was sent home. She was rather perturbed when mother came in with me next morning and I read here we go and j and j book one and almost half of book two aloud to her. You would be hard pressed to find a child of five able to do that nowadays

 

[Janne]

Books?

You just do not understand how heavy my school bag was, with all those stone and clay tablets.....

 

[Clayze]

Well, I certainly learned to read courtesy of Janet and John. Getting back to Ladybird (bee in bonnet) some of those wonderful illustrations still stick in my mind. I gather some volumes in good nick can command quite a sum! The Ladybird book of Coarse Fishing got me into angling as a kid. The Ladybird book of Seashore Life definitely had me dipping and delving into rock pools.
On a less enthusiastic note did they publish a copy of that dreary, repetitive story Chicken Licken?

 

[oldtimer]

Woody girl,
I'd be wary of making generalisations about reading before going to school as it is difficult to compare like with like. You were probably not an average childchild. As a school inspector, I found as many early readers in the 1990s as I did as a teacher in the 1960s. My sons and grandchildren, like their parents could all read long before starting school, but none of us is typical. If I were to hazard a generalisation, it would be that the present younger generation is far more computer competent than we were literally competent. I am amazed at what my three year old granddaughter can already do on a tablet, but I have no idea how typical she is in this respect.

I do find it interesting that different generations have different criteria for intellectual competence. My grandchildren and I can be simultaneously amazed at our respective erudition and ignorance at what we regard as common knowledge.

Ah well, you live and learn, then die and forget it all!

 

[oldtimer]

They had driving licences in the 1640's??

I've had a driving licence since before cars were invented!

 

[saxonaxe]

" They had driving licences in the 1640's?? "

Oi !!.......


In December the local Traffic Cops were doing their annual stop-check, anti drink drive campaign. A Female Officer younger than my Granddaughter comes up to the driver's window and gives her standard explanation.."We are running a Christmas safety campaign etc:" Sniffing all the time to see if she can smell alcohol (unlucky... I'm teetotal and in favour of the campaign anyway)
Eventually she asks if I have any identification..My old red Driving Licence (1964) is in the glove box.. I just couldn't resist it..

She looked at it for so long I thought..."Your torch battery is going to run out in a minute young lady" Eventually she told me to wait, and walked back to where other Officers were standing, returning with a Sergeant.
He looked at me and winked and then went on to explain to the obviously brand new officer that the vehicle groups listed on my licence entitled me to drive Steam powered Lorries, Traction Engines and other Horseless Carriages.
At that point it was him who broke first and he started laughing, and the game was up...She had no problem understanding my modern licence though and was still grinning when another vehicle came along and I was told I could drive on....

 

[Woody girl]

Does anyone find their senior moments getting more frequent? I've just made a cup of tea while my mind was on the last couple of posts and I sat down to make a reply took a sip of tea and realised I'd not only forgotten the sugar but the teabag too! Duh!

 

[Broch]

Does anyone find their senior moments getting more frequent? I've just made a cup of tea while my mind was on the last couple of posts and I sat down to make a reply took a sip of tea and realised I'd not only forgotten the sugar but the teabag too! Duh!

I like to think it's a bit like the pain - we were just as bad when younger it's just we worry about it more now (that's what I'm telling myself anyway)

 

[Janne]

Senior moments are there only because our brains have stored sn incredible amount of information, not because of a degradation process.

That is at least what I tell myself!

 

[Woody girl]

I think my brain is a bit like that cupboard that you store all those bits and bobs in that you might need one day. You know it's in there somewhere but can you find it when you need it? Can you heck!

 

[snappingturtle]

I've had a driving licence since before cars were invented!

Because you trucked with the evil one?

 

[snappingturtle]

I think my brain is a bit like that cupboard that you store all those bits and bobs in that you might need one day. You know it's in there somewhere but can you find it when you need it? Can you heck!

I think it might be like store shelf stacking, all the old stuff up front and the new go's to the back.

 

[Wayland]

If I'm honest with myself my weight is more of a problem than my age.

Since Skadi passed away I am walking a lot less but still eating the same. I don't seem to have much luck with controlling my diet so another dog might be a better solution.