I volunteer for a fantastic national charity called Contact the Elderly (https://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk) which runs monthly Tea Parties for our older neighbours. All our Guests are over 75 years old (most are well into their eighties or nineties), but none of them would refer to themselves as 'elderly'. Not even Liz, at 105!
I volunteer for a fantastic national charity called IContact the Elderly (https://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk) which runs monthly Tea Parties for our older neighbours. All our Guests are over 75 years old (most are well into their eighties or nineties), but none of them would refer to themselves as 'elderly'. Not even Liz, at 105!
So in the interest of 'correctness' Janie, how should we refer to these folks? What would be a suitable adjective for us?
But that link that Janie B posted doesn't say 'Gardeners'.
Oh Achtung, I thought you wanted a suitable adjective for 'us' on the forum I do like getting to 'know' people without all the other gender, age, social, economic issues. I may be somewhat presumptuous to include myself as a gardener but hey, no-one can really say I'm not......... I have no wish to be identified by my gender, age or past occupations but I wish I could be a gardener!
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Hmmm @Achtung, I really haven't found a suitable word... I generally refer to them as the Guests, and us as the Volunteers (even though a lot of our Volunteers, being over 75, qualify to be invited along as Guests...!)
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.