chrisd
Major Champion
That is Captain Mainwaring to you.
Best looking one among them and still didn't make the line up 😣
How old is old and how do you prepare for old age?
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Best looking one among them and still didn't make the line up 😣
richart
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Perhaps you are a bit too old for Dads Army. Last of the summer wine is a different matter.
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How can you prepare for getting old when we none of us know what "old" is apart from it being an abstract.
I am nearly 70, buggered up by arthritis and my golf is officially crap.
But having survived a major heart attack over 17 years ago I realise that getting old beats the alternative.
I am nearly 70, buggered up by arthritis and my golf is officially crap.
But having survived a major heart attack over 17 years ago I realise that getting old beats the alternative.
Sorry Chris but I thought it a bit harsh to suggest you are Corporal Jones' twin.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
drdel
Tour Rookie
Well experts tell me they can soon help us all live longer. At 70+ a few that sounds good but on the other-hand it will mean more years have a bloody nappy changed. I wanted to add the years in when I was 30!!
Still play 3 x 18holes a week with no hassle and occasionally get a drive out there at 260yds.
Still play 3 x 18holes a week with no hassle and occasionally get a drive out there at 260yds.
chrisd
Major Champion
Please Mr Murg, may I be excused?Chris can be Pte Godfrey
richart
Major Champion
Smiffy. No contest.Chris can be Pte Godfrey
SILH has to be Fraser.....
Who can be Spiv Walker..?
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
I wish I looked old. I got asked for ID buying Rum in Tesco a couple of months ago.
I'm 42.
I'm 42.
Beedee
Assistant Pro
A few months ago I was talking in my three-ball about when we would join the senior section of our respective clubs. Next year said one, two years said another. Then they asked me was I enjoying it in the seniors. When I told them I was 49 they said "<expletive deleted>me you've had a hard life!!"
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Difficult question for us. Mrs Hogan is in remission from a serious Breast Cancer and has now (1st August) retired (after 40 yrs in the NHS) but as her job at the end of working was a Breast care Nurse Specialist she views every day as a day closer to a recurrence or secondaries. So her view on life can be very negative - she regularly goes into 'when I'm gone you'll get another woman and this is what she'll be like...' mode. In her head she isn't going to reach old age - if old age is 80s and 90s - and doesn't really expect to reach 70. And such thoughts make for some difficult moments,
And so I am taking a 6 month sabbatical first half of next year and we are going travelling down-under and various parts in between. That's how we are preparing for old age - or rather not preparing for it at the moment - other than having our pensions set up and readily accessible now. To that end she retired and I brought a good final salary one forward by cashing it in to make it available to us now - Mrs Hogan reckons there's not much good waiting for me to get it at 65 if she's not about to help me enjoy it
And we will probably move north in a couple of years time to release some equity from our house and get closer to the magnificent Scottish countryside (well that's how she sees it) and closer to my extended family (we are close to my cousins - most whom still live in Scotland) as we might well need family support in the future.
And so I am taking a 6 month sabbatical first half of next year and we are going travelling down-under and various parts in between. That's how we are preparing for old age - or rather not preparing for it at the moment - other than having our pensions set up and readily accessible now. To that end she retired and I brought a good final salary one forward by cashing it in to make it available to us now - Mrs Hogan reckons there's not much good waiting for me to get it at 65 if she's not about to help me enjoy it
And we will probably move north in a couple of years time to release some equity from our house and get closer to the magnificent Scottish countryside (well that's how she sees it) and closer to my extended family (we are close to my cousins - most whom still live in Scotland) as we might well need family support in the future.
3offTheTee
Tour Rookie
So sorry to read those comments SILH and hope everything is OK for Mrs SILH.
Hooker
Assistant Pro
Sorry
Sorry to hear that SILH but sounds like you have good plans in place.
Difficult question for us. Mrs Hogan is in remission from a serious Breast Cancer and has now (1st August) retired (after 40 yrs in the NHS) but as her job at the end of working was a Breast care Nurse Specialist she views every day as a day closer to a recurrence or secondaries. So her view on life can be very negative - she regularly goes into 'when I'm gone you'll get another woman and this is what she'll be like...' mode. In her head she isn't going to reach old age - if old age is 80s and 90s - and doesn't really expect to reach 70. And such thoughts make for some difficult moments,
And so I am taking a 6 month sabbatical first half of next year and we are going travelling down-under and various parts in between. That's how we are preparing for old age - or rather not preparing for it at the moment - other than having our pensions set up and readily accessible now. To that end she retired and I brought a good final salary one forward by cashing it in to make it available to us now - Mrs Hogan reckons there's not much good waiting for me to get it at 65 if she's not about to help me enjoy it
And we will probably move north in a couple of years time to release some equity from our house and get closer to the magnificent Scottish countryside (well that's how she sees it) and closer to my extended family (we are close to my cousins - most whom still live in Scotland) as we might well need family support in the future.
Sorry to hear that SILH but sounds like you have good plans in place.
Kellfire
Blackballed
I felt old when I turned 30. I felt old when I became an orphan at 35. I feel old when I find myself whinging about the idiotic things the youth of today talk about.
Leftie
Tour Winner
Dragging this thread back to the OP's question, if you haven't sorted out the following yet, then you should - asap.
- Wills
- Trusts
- Inheritance Tax
- Lasting Power of Attorneys(LPA)
- Equity Release
- Funeral Plans
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Difficult question for us. Mrs Hogan is in remission from a serious Breast Cancer and has now (1st August) retired (after 40 yrs in the NHS) but as her job at the end of working was a Breast care Nurse Specialist she views every day as a day closer to a recurrence or secondaries. So her view on life can be very negative - she regularly goes into 'when I'm gone you'll get another woman and this is what she'll be like...' mode. In her head she isn't going to reach old age - if old age is 80s and 90s - and doesn't really expect to reach 70. And such thoughts make for some difficult moments,
And so I am taking a 6 month sabbatical first half of next year and we are going travelling down-under and various parts in between. That's how we are preparing for old age - or rather not preparing for it at the moment - other than having our pensions set up and readily accessible now. To that end she retired and I brought a good final salary one forward by cashing it in to make it available to us now - Mrs Hogan reckons there's not much good waiting for me to get it at 65 if she's not about to help me enjoy it
And we will probably move north in a couple of years time to release some equity from our house and get closer to the magnificent Scottish countryside (well that's how she sees it) and closer to my extended family (we are close to my cousins - most whom still live in Scotland) as we might well need family support in the future.
Very sorry to hear that, every good day is a bonus and after many good days sometimes you start to hope and then you start to believe.
Hope that happens to your good lady.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Not sure where I sit with this getting old business.
I have yet to reach my 18th birthday but have been retired for nearly 10 years.
I have yet to reach my 18th birthday but have been retired for nearly 10 years.
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Not sure where I sit with this getting old business.
I have yet to reach my 18th birthday but have been retired for nearly 10 years.
Born in 1948 perchance?
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Thanks mate - it is what it is, and her thinking is just that of 'someone who knows too much' and so it is very difficult for her to look forward at all positively. It makes you appreciate what you have today, and realise that tomorrow might not be so easy or happy - and that's why we are doing what we are planning to do. I do smile though when she tells me that we have to re-do our wills so that no 'future fancy thing' I might have once she's gone would get her paws on any of what we have today
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