I looked at the beginning of this thread - it's almost 10 years since it started - and noted the ages disclosed by some of posters. Some of those who posted then are with us now (hurray!), some have flown to the great Session in the Sky, and others? I don't know...

I'm 74 this year, but it's only in the last few months that the doc saw me and, after a routine blood test, prescribed pills for blood pressure, low vitamin D and statins - all as preventative measures against strokes, cardiac problems, etc. Do I feel any different? Nope. Has my lifestyle changed? Nope - I still do gigs, do lots of walking and apart from the odd ache and pain of being 70+, don't feel too bad.

But will I be able to say that on the 20th anniversary of this thread. Mum died at 91, Dad at 93 - so who knows?