The Oldies Thread

[Methuselah]

You had holidays too.?

Definitely middle class.

We used to stay on a farm near Benlech Bay. I used to love going there, we went about three or fours years on the trot. The farmer's name was Roberts and he used to send us a chicken every Christmas. Me and my brother used to go down to the sea side on a couple of occasions but we preferred to stay on the farm 'helping out'. Thinking back 'helping out' was a term for being a 'bloody nuisance'.
They kept hens for the eggs. Occasionally, the hens would lay eggs somewhere around the farm yard and the chicks would hatch. They didn't want this and I remember once walking into the farm kitchen and the farmer's wife had a box with half-a-dozen live chicks in. As I watched, she opened the door on the oven and threw the chicks one by one into the flames.

 

[blueloon]

Ah Benlech Bay , me and my mates had a camping holiday there , back in ‘69 , we were there when they landed on the moon . My Memories are : A bunch of Evertonians were in a tent 30 yards away , they nicked our camping gear when we were out one day. I know this because we raided their tent and nicked our stuff back! A guy showed us how to catch mackerel from the rocks and we cooked and ate them. On the Sunday we ignored the pub wed been to on the Saturday night in favour of walking 3 miles down the road to the next one. It was shut. Anglesey was one of the Welsh counties who’d voted to keep dry Sundays!
Happy Days!

 

[Methuselah]

I entered my 70‘s last week with my usual birthday run, only a short one, but I’m determined to enter as many races as I can as a new M70 . Inevitably the knees and hips ache a lot more but I’ll keep running as long as I can , maybe I’ll stop if we win the CL . I’ve no belief at all that running will stop the inevitable scary decline you allude to but I’ll keep on keeping on . I’m running my first Ultra Marathon next week , 50km/ 32 miles. Wish me luck!

That's impressive blueloon. I played golf till I was 79 and thought I did well! Can't walk further that half-a-mile now. Get knackered walking round the snooker table!

 

[tommytowne]

Well done on the gym work!

Ah the recovery takes longer on everything these days compared to years ago. Mind you the old adage has never been more true :
” If I’d have known I was going to live so long I’d have taken better care of myself “

My inspiration within the gym is a seventy eight year-old bloke. He does quite a few machines especially the cycle. He does things nice and steady.

 

[Barnfred 55]

We used to stay on a farm near Benlech Bay. I used to love going there, we went about three or fours years on the trot. The farmer's name was Roberts and he used to send us a chicken every Christmas. Me and my brother used to go down to the sea side on a couple of occasions but we preferred to stay on the farm 'helping out'. Thinking back 'helping out' was a term for being a 'bloody nuisance'.
They kept hens for the eggs. Occasionally, the hens would lay eggs somewhere around the farm yard and the chicks would hatch. They didn't want this and I remember once walking into the farm kitchen and the farmer's wife had a box with half-a-dozen live chicks in. As I watched, she opened the door on the oven and threw the chicks one by one into the flames.

I had just the one family holiday as a child when I was 11. Funnily enough that was also at Benlech Bay in Anglesey. Mine was in a static caravan not a farm though.

I do remember spending the whole 2 weeks on the fantastic beach and that the weather was very hot.

 

[blueloon]

I had just the one family holiday as a child when I was 11. Funnily enough that was also at Benlech Bay in Anglesey. Mine was in a static caravan not a farm though.

I do remember spending the whole 2 weeks on the fantastic beach and that the weather was very hot.

Anglesey for your caravan hols ? , definitely middle class. Us working class only managed a caravan in Rhyl lol

 

[Methuselah]

I had just the one family holiday as a child when I was 11. Funnily enough that was also at Benlech Bay in Anglesey. Mine was in a static caravan not a farm though.

I do remember spending the whole 2 weeks on the fantastic beach and that the weather was very hot.

My Dad was a musician, a pianist. In 1939 when I was three years old, Dad had a summer season in Ramsey on the Isle of Man. He took Mum, me and my brother and we spent the whole summer there. Sadly, I don't remember much but we have loads of photo's of that summer.

 

[Ray Purchase]

Anglesey for your caravan hols ? , definitely middle class. Us working class only managed a caravan in Rhyl lol

A caravan in Rhyl= Luxury.

We had a week in a leaky tent in Walton Hall Park.

 

[Methuselah]

So basically you were middle class ?

I was going to point out that we lived in a council house (we did). Then I remembered that when I was in the Scouts, the Scout Master sent me on an errand to deliver some documents to the Scouts District Commissioner. I had seen the guy several times and knew he was a Solicitor and a senior person in the Scouts. A very distinguished looking man. When I got to the address, it was a council house. Everyone lived in a council house in Liverpool!

 

[PITA]

A caravan in Rhyl= Luxury.

We had a week in a leaky tent in Walton Hall Park.

Never been on holiday with my parents. Probably not a bad thing really.

 

[Eggs]

….not sure they still do ‘penny for the guy’.

 

[Eggs]

….in the days before we’d often ‘try’ a pub crawl down Wavertree High St.

 

[blueloon]

Turmeric .
I posted this in the new thread about our latest sponsorship deal in the Football Forum, but thought I’d repost here as probably more useful to us Golden Oldies then young overpaid PL players.

“ I looked at a number of Tumeric products about 6 weeks ago , including this one and thought it was an expensive purchase that promises much , so Everton that. Two shots per day works out at about £120 per month ok if your on PL wages . I’ve been taking tumeric for just over a month now to help reduce the pain in my ageing knees when I go running. So far I actually think there’s been an improvement in my knees and from the research I’ve read tumeric does have benefits for some. However , as the BBC say “ other brands are available “.

I take two capsules a day , very much early days but I think they’re helping my knees. Anyone else use turmeric.?

 

[LEONARD]

It was reasonably early on you saw a young girl wake up, dressed in her day clothes. The camera pans out to show she was top and tailing with her mam and younger sister in a single bed. Across the room, the one room by the way not a bedroom, a young lad awakes having been sleeping on a settee again fully clothed and finally another single bed with the dad and young lad fast asleep. You are correct, some privilege eh?

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….not sure they still do ‘penny for the guy’.

If you tried to give them 1p nowadays, they would stab yer.

 

[LEONARD]

Turmeric .
I posted this in the new thread about our latest sponsorship deal in the Football Forum, but thought I’d repost here as probably more useful to us Golden Oldies then young overpaid PL players.

“ I looked at a number of Tumeric products about 6 weeks ago , including this one and thought it was an expensive purchase that promises much , so Everton that. Two shots per day works out at about £120 per month ok if your on PL wages . I’ve been taking tumeric for just over a month now to help reduce the pain in my ageing knees when I go running. So far I actually think there’s been an improvement in my knees and from the research I’ve read tumeric does have benefits for some. However , as the BBC say “ other brands are available “.

I take two capsules a day , very much early days but I think they’re helping my knees. Anyone else use turmeric.?

I take a good over 50's multivitamin.

What's Turmeric supposed to help us oldies with?