Random Thoughts

[Dorsetmike]

Being aged 90, I suspect I may be the oldest on the forum, I started N gauge when I retired from the RAF at age 40, so that's 50 years modelling N, my NGS number is 4 figures starting with a 2.
 My first railway model however was a Hornby 0 gauge clockwork 0-4-0T for Christmas when I was about 4 or 5, followed a year later by a 3 rail Electric Hornby Flying Scotsman - not exactly true to scale the model was 4-4-2 not 4-6-2. No scenics just bare track on the floor. That lasted until I was about 15 then nothing until my sons had some Hornby Dublo for Christmas in the late 50s, they never showed much interest though.

[Newportnobby]

The only thing that makes me feel old is when they say that things like Bridge over Troubled Water came out 55 years ago.

I felt really old when, on the quiz programme 'Pointless', it was obvious some didn't recognise Chuck Berry from a picture of him
Ding-a-ling

[Webbo]

I wouldn't recognise Chuck Berry either. That may very well make me quite a bit older than you Mick!

Webbo

[port perran]

I'll be 70 in 6 months and don't feel anywhere near that age even after having my left hip replaced 9 months ago.

However, yesterday I discovered that I no longer bounce!
We were walking to catch a train when I tripped over the tiniest little imperfection on the path landing heavily on my knee.
Today, I can hardly move. Grrrrr
Maybe this inability to bounce is indeed a sign of ageing   

[dannyboy]

I tripped over the tiniest little imperfection on the path landing heavily on my knee.

That'll teach you to move houses! 
(Hope you have settled in okay Martin).

[dannyboy]

If the tomato is a fruit, then ketchup is the jam.

[joe cassidy]

"to do is to be" - Nietsche

"to be is to do" - Kant

"doo bee doo bee doo" - Sinatra

[Newportnobby]

However, yesterday I discovered that I no longer bounce!
We were walking to catch a train when I tripped over the tiniest little imperfection on the path landing heavily on my knee.
Today, I can hardly move. Grrrrr
Maybe this inability to bounce is indeed a sign of ageing   

I find scoffing 'Trill' helps. Well, it worked on my budgie (which was not smuggled in any shape or form )

[Foxhound]

In all the cine film of my Dad when I was a nipper, he's wearing a blazer.

I'm now the age he was in those films, and I have two blazers in the wardrobe. Oh, heck.....

[Jack]

In all the cine film of my Dad when I was a nipper, he's wearing a blazer.

I'm now the age he was in those films, and I have two blazers in the wardrobe. Oh, heck.....

I feel your pain Bro! At 67 I grew a beard so I didn't see my father looking back at me each time I looked in the mirror!

[NScaleNotes]

If the tomato is a fruit, then ketchup is the jam.

Does that make passata a smoothie too?