BS: old-codgerdom !

Subject: old-codgerdom !
From: Fliss
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 03:46 PM

Rather than us all hijacking the Shrewsbury FF thread I thought Id add a new old-codgerdom thread.

Fliss... trainee old-codger!

Subject: RE: old-codgerdom !
From: Bert
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 03:56 PM

How old do you have to be to qualify?

Subject: RE: old-codgerdom !
From: Fliss
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 03:57 PM

When I get old and wear purple... I want an electric scooter and run all the shoppers over too!!

I want furry seat and large airhorn, wing mirrors, pennant saying 'ageing hippie' and a basket on the back to carry the guitar and concertina. Plus a trailer on the back for the dog!!

Can I ride up the wrong side of the road, pretty please, and on the road at 4mph. On the hard shoulder of motorways... oh yess.

Im growing old disgracefully, I have been since I turned 50.

And... I want a retirement home that caters for 'hippie old-codgers'-plenty of Kumbaya, and not sit in rows and stare at the telly.

They have got to do better for us in our dotage.

Subject: RE: old-codgerdom !
From: treewind
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 03:59 PM

I though this was going to be a birthday announcement.

According to Pete Coe, he was officially on "old git" at 60 but the official correct threshold for codger status might be different.

Anahata

Subject: RE: old-codgerdom !
From: Fliss
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:00 PM

Dunno Bert, what do you suggest? Trainee from 50ish. Qualified old-codger at 60, and veteran at 75+ ??

This is partly for fun, but more seriously, so we dont end up in souless OAP homes.

Subject: RE: old-codgerdom !
From: GUEST,Curmudgeon
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:00 PM

Do we really need another time wasting thread here ?

This is so sad.

Subject: RE: old-codgerdom !
From: treewind
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:02 PM

I remember noticing a few years ago at Sidmouth how all the residents were zooming about in their EPV's mowing down the visiting folkies, and thinking that it wouldn't be long before it was the folkies in the EPVs.

I noticed last year that's it's starting to happen.

Anahata

Subject: RE: old-codgerdom !
From: Kiss Me Slow Slap Me Quick
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:03 PM

I'a afraid it's too late for me. I sliped into this mode when I was in my twenties and have moved on to the carmudgeon category. Still, I'm at home on Mudcat.

Subject: RE: old-codgerdom !
From: Fliss
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:03 PM

No, Ive got 18mths to go to the bus pass. Im in the last tranch of ladies to retire at 60.

Ive enjoyed my 50s and grown up and left home, much to the surprise of the ex and the kids. Taken up folk music again and enjoy a few festivals, folk sessions.

I intend to grow old disgracefully :)

Subject: RE: old-codgerdom !
From: Fliss
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:05 PM

Well dont read it then Curmudgeon. Some of us intend to have fun with our twilight years and if discussing growing old and its problems for folkies is time wasting, tough

Subject: RE: old-codgerdom !
From: Fliss
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:12 PM

Think the EPV's have been at some festivals for some years, Anahata. They are a great way to get round extended sites.

Do think there should be some sort of driving test, including highway code, and insurance tho.

Subject: RE: BS: old-codgerdom !
From: Bert
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 05:59 PM

I guess that sounds about right Fliss. Although at 68, most days I don't feel like an old codger. Then again there's other days when I most certainly do.

Subject: RE: BS: old-codgerdom !
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 06:31 PM

I don't know about anybody else here, but at 77 I'm a YOUNG codger!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: old-codgerdom !
From: Tig
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 05:28 PM

A gang of us 'trainee codgers'were sat around a bonfire in Derbyshire not all that long ago making music and watching the younger members of the group. At that point we worked out a plan where we would organise a 'home' complete with outdoor fires, a bar, no rules and regulations and the young ones trained from now to look after us in the manner to which we have become accustomed at such events.

Anyone want to join us in it?

Subject: RE: BS: old-codgerdom !
From: Gurney
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 06:06 PM

I would, Tig. Supposing I lived in Derbyshire.


Wouldn't want to work there, though, supposing that I was still young.

Subject: RE: BS: old-codgerdom !
From: Fliss
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 07:07 PM

Sounds ace Tig. Having visited older relations in OAP homes where they are treated as children, there has to be a better way of living in old age.

Your idea sounds like a perpetual Folk Festival. Perhaps there could be a string of homes at Festival towns where old-codgers could go and enjoy the music and be looked after.

I read a story of an older lady who booked onto cruise ships and stayed on for several tours, before swapping onto another cruise. She said she was fed and looked after well, there was nightly entertainment, a doctor onboard and lots of people to talk to.

Subject: RE: BS: old-codgerdom !
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:21 AM

Tig - there ussed to be such homes for old 'retired' actors.

A total bloody disaster.

"If you play Bob Dylan one more time..."

Subject: RE: BS: old-codgerdom !
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 05:55 PM

Old codger? I guess it's better than being an "old fart"

Subject: RE: BS: old-codgerdom !
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:05 AM

At 63 and a fully paid up old fart, I am serving my apprenticeship to old codgerdom.