Genealogy Chat

If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were? Roger GC

Roger Depends how I am feeling Sometimes 18 Sometimes 90 Margaret

Roger Not as old as that woman I see in MY mirror everyday :)))) Chris

As old as my tongue, and a little bit older than my teeth.......... Reg

Roger, I know how old I am and STILL have to remind myself when I complete one of those category questions: age under 25 age 26 -35 age 36 - 49 etc. always go for the under 25, because that's how old I feel (except for a few aches and pains & when I look in the mirror)

5 OC

Sometimes I forget and have a guess, but I'm not usually more than a year or so out.

Michael, youre virtually still in single numbers. My best age of all was 28 - if I could choose that is the age I would stay all my life. I still think Im about 35 until I see that strange dumpy middle aged lady staring out of shop windows at me. Oh dear.

I am not QUITE there yet, but I have plans to be one of those imperious old women you see around, back straight as a poker, with loud voices and a silver-topped cane, which they use to whack people with. (Think Diana in Waiting For God...) But will probably turn into one of those 85 year olds you see, with jet black hair and a red leather miniskirt. OC

Id like to be like that OC - my 80 year old aunt certainly is! But I fear I shall end up the old lady sitting on the wall in our little town centre, singing at the top of her voice and swinging her fat little legs and showing her knickers. Amazingly in 20 years, there has been 3, one after another. Its almost like they audition when the previous one snuffs it. Youve never seen the woman before and suddenly there she is in the same position as the previous one.

I agee Heather, 28 was good but age is only a number ! (people over 40 say that a lot I've found!!) I think the 40's will be GOOD Sarah :-) 41 and 7/12th's today!

That reminds me of someone... a certain 60something who possessed a stick despite being perfectly capable of walking without one, retaining it for its alternative use as an offensive weapon. Fortunately he's grown out of it now.

Oh OC - I can visualise you like that! & (sorry) Heather - I can visualise you like that too (knickers had to come into it somewhere!) I had an Auntie that was always made-up to the nines all her life, we used to laugh when we were younger - 'pollyfilla-face!' but now I think it was WONDERFUL that she took care of herself & had that self-esteem (she'd been a model in her very young days) Sarah :-) off to bed now - night, night!

Perhaps I should put my CV in now Sarah? My 80 year old auntie lived in 'the Colonies' with her hubby who was a bank manager for many years. And cor, cant you tell it. Shes one of these ladies who shouts 'What?' when she doesnt hear you - you know the sort. But rather like that than the poor humble little creatures you see dragging their shopping trolleys along behind them. It makes me so sad to see people like that.

Heather Its like bag ladies - they seem to be rationed to one at a time. You suddenly realise you havent seen the current bag lady for a while and then another one appears! I got quite friendly with one of them. She had spent her early years in 'Injar', was extremely cultivated and told me the most incredible stories - still dont know if they were true or fantasy . She disappeared and eventually I asked the local beat bobby if he knew where she was. He said yes, she had been hauled off to the Mental Hospital again because she had been caught trying to shoot tigers on the A30 LOL! OC

I agree I feel a lot younger than the reflection I see in the mirror!! Except when I finish a hard shift and feel 92!! mind I could still work the young uns into the ground-no stamina these days!! lol

Dad was convinced his parents married in 1919 because he remembered them celebrating their silver wedding anniversary in WW2. He was nearly right: it was 1917. My cousin was born the year Kennedy was shot. My granny, an aunt and a neighbour all died the year we won the world cup.... except that it wasn't Granny, it was Grandma, but I know there were three deaths. Thank Goodness Ancestry can help me out when my dates get a bit wobbly.

Or, judging by the way this thread has progressed since I started typing (about two replies down!) about as old as my ancestor Joan Prideaux, who described herself as eighty, but according to her evidence chopped down all her son's timber in revenge for his treatment of her. She and her sister (described by the said son as a Meddlesome Old Woman) are my role models.

PHoenix LOL! My role model is Lady Mary Holden, wife of Sir Robert Holden. She is one of the very first women to ever get a divorce (in 1603) because her husband has described her to his friends as a Great and Incontinent Whore. The toady Vicar who THOUGHT he knew which side his bread was buttered, wrote this description of her in the PR. Lady Mary sued the Vicar for libel and won. Sir Robert counter-sued her in the matter of divorce and her retort was that Sir Robert wasnt up to the mark in the bedroom dept and she had been forced to go elsewhere for solace. (No wonder there wasnt any money left by the time I was born! The Holdens spent 5 centuries in the b****y Courts, suing each other) OC