"Middle age is always 10 years older than you are" is a saying....

[smart1]

... I have heard regularly in my time - that being the case when do we become 'elderly', and have to stop eating soft egg yolks, soft cheeses etc?

[Old_Geezer]

5 days before you pop your clogs.

[EcclesCake]

If you've reached 'elderly' then surely you are old enough to make your own mind up about what you eat.

[smart1]

LOL @ OG

[andy-hughes]

Personally? Never! I absolutely refuse to 'be old' even though I will be pretty soon. I shall still be going to gigs, meeting and interviewing and writing about musicians, and collecting fine music until I am simply unable to continue.

When that happens it will be time for me to die.

Play 'Drift Away' at my funeral, and I'm done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIuyDWzctgY&feature=related

[Ankou]

"If you've reached 'elderly' then surely you are old enough to make your own mind up about what you eat"

the marbles that you've lost ?

[smart1]

I agree with everyone! But I've read somehere that at about 70yrs we should stop eating all the good stuff because of the risk of listeria. If I should get to 70, I shall eat the same as ever - pretty much everything!

[smart1]

In your case Ankou?

[EcclesCake]

Ankou, if my gran wanted to eat her marbles I'd let her. She might regret it in the morning though!

[abstibus]

Something to look forward to ...

WARNING!
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other peoples' gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickles for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

by Jenny Joseph
http://www.netmender.net/glenna/Purple.htm

[smart1]

I like that AM - and I've already started!

[The Builder]

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable....................

Oscar Wilde

[madmaggot]

But ........ when elderly the state of one's gums would surely dictate that the only food eaten would be soft egg yolk, soft cheeses, etc?

[boxtops]

Ann - I read that poem at my mother's memorial service - it was her, to a T.

[whiskeryron]

Love that annemollie, thanks.

Ron.

[mrs_overall]

My favourite phrase is

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened

[carol2712]

You were like that 20 years ago weren't you? Never did conform!! (◠‿◠)