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How important is a website like this to the elderly?

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  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Took me ages to work out the coincidence of us all being 27!
    i feel I have some really good friends here, how lucky am I?
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2019
    Same here @Lily Pilly ... I’ve met some ‘in the flesh’ ... there are others of you I may never meet ... no less my real friends that I care about tho ((hug)) 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    For various reasons, some my fault, I lost a lot of "real" friends. Joining this forum transformed my life. { Yes really }
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @punkdoc ((hugs)) 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    yeah Dove, "You are as old as the man you feel honey", my MIL was "elderly" at 50, normally folk think I am a lot younger than I am, not many wrinkles, my oldest 48 says I make her feel old.  However, I have de quervans at the moment, both hands worst in left (of COURSE I am left handed, wearing wrist/thumb brace, so I am the little old lady at the mo, who cant get the bloody money out of her purse and holds the queue up.  Anyone on here got it, I want tips and ecouragement,  cos Bank Holiday Monday I couldnt cut up my breakfast sat and cried.  Have a cousin went to see her the other day 92, and would kill you for saying she was old.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    achtung how old are you then?
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    I hope I'm not as old as the man I feel - he's nearly 10 years older than me!

    Main problem with getting older is arthritis. After 41/2 hours of pulling up weeds yesterday my hands couldn't do gardening today. Did housework and ironing instead.


    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • AchtungAchtung Posts: 159
    I think I need to apologise for the use of the word 'elderly'. I didn't realise it was such an emotive word. The reason for my OP was that we hear so much about how young people need to be protected from the Internet but very little about how much the Internet helps more 'senior' members (hope that's not another emotive word) of society who perhaps can't socialise as well as they used to for various reasons. Anyhow, as everyone here is 27 I was probably asking on the wrong forum. You'd have to add 40 years to that Nancy to find my age. Thanks for all the comments, v. interesting. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You and I could be twins then @achtung 😊 
    however my OH is almost twenty years younger so when my dodgy knee won’t let me clamber about on the shady bank, I’ve got him to do it for me ... good planning eh?! 😇 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    My granddaughter regards anyone over 25 as past it so I am not offended by being called elderly, senior, pensioner or anything else at 67. I'm happy that some of the contributors on this site are younger, often starting with their own gardens for the first time, and grateful that there are the more experienced who bring years of knowledge. My understanding is that some sites specialise in criticising and insulting eachother so THIS site is particularly valuable in its generally positive, friendly and helpful approach. And age is irrelevant. Long may it continue.
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