Grow old disgracefully.

Savvy_Sue

Advantages of growing old? Well, I've been indulging my pink fetish in a big way over the last year and a bit.

And I STILL walk faster than my sons, the dawdlers, and today I discovered that I walk faster than my nephews as well! :rotfl:

I keep telling them that at their age I'd have been positively embarrassed not to be able to keep up with my mum!

(Actually, they probably can go faster than me, but they're so embarrassed at being out with me that they stay 20 paces behind me ...)

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kenshaz wrote:

That would be fun,each day would be a new adventure.those mountain roads in Spain,eating fresh figs,and local wine,they do have Sidra(hope that is correct). We know Spain ,perhaps we should explore further afield.We could always pull over and behave disgracefully

Come round my way, Las Alpujarras in the Sierra Nevada, this is the last you will see of traditional Spain - and make sure it's the Eastern Alpujarras (Ugijar on the map), not Orgiva in the West, Orgiva is full of Brits and New Age travellers.

And as to behaving disgracefully.....we've just this month met the couple who've bought our mate Pascal's little farm. She is Dutch and a woodwork teacher, he is English and a nurse. Now Pascal (who hails from the French Alps) is a trifle eccentric to say the least and quite deliberately had his farmhouse built four years ago with no bathroom or sewage facilities. He has gone off to meditate in a monastery in Newton Abbot (does that class as growing old disgracefully - he is 65) and this couple have bought his little farm, in all its glory.

They shower by connecting a hose to the hot water (yes, Pascal did have that put in) and standing outside in the altogether on the mountainside , filling a bucket with holes with the hose, and hanging it from an almond tree.

As to sanitary facilities.... she has used our loo six times in a month; he hasn't used it at all! I suppose I could be charitable and say they have used the loos at the bars....but really I think not, this has GOT to be growing old disgracefully!

I hasten to add that they have seen the Mayor today to get planning permission to install two bathrooms (one up, one down). They have got the planning permission!

It is a totally different way of life here, come and see it ! (Although most of us HAVE got mains sewage)!

needmoney

Don't know about disgraceful but certainly eccentric:D could cope with the outdoor shower but not the loo:eek: :eek:

Savvy_Sue what's a pink fetish?

ben500

Go the whole hog and wear your colostomy bag on the OUTSIDE !:D

needmoney

ben500 wrote:

Go the whole hog and wear your colostomy bag on the OUTSIDE !:D

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KMK

Sorry that the Stones' concert in Cardiff was disappointing I thought the night in the Don Valley, Sheffield was great. We all got the tram back into the city (like a scene from Lowry!) and I did not hear any complaints en route. I could not see any empty seats at all in the stadium. They came out into the audience at one point on a gantry and it was pouring down. Sir Mick like the trouper he is, donned a bright red raincoat and hat and kept right on rocking. He is incredibly energetic for his age ( in more ways than one!)

In the press, their other concerts had really good reviews, so it's a shame that their last gig in Cardiff was not as good. Perhaps they had run out of energy by then?

Who would have thought back in the 60s that they would still be strutting their stuff well into their sixties? Good on them, I say!

needmoney

Let's hear it for The Rolling Bones:D

Yeah pity that but I've heard so many mixed reports.

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needmoney wrote:

Let's hear it for The Rolling Bones:D

Yeah pity that but I've heard so many mixed reports.

I thought it was the Strolling Bones??

needmoney

seven-day-weekend wrote:

I thought it was the Strolling Bones??

Yeah that's right :T :T

It's dead quiet on these boards this week.

What's the weather like in Spain, here in Wales it's very very wet and windy and grey and misty.:sad:

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needmoney wrote:

Yeah that's right :T :T

It's dead quiet on these boards this week.

What's the weather like in Spain, here in Wales it's very very wet and windy and grey and misty.:sad:

Hot and sunny, but up here in the mountains there is a nice breeze.

We're hoping to visit N. Wales in a few weeks. We're in the UK September 14-25and someone has very kindly hired us a car. We'll probably go to Snowdonia or Barmouth area for the day. I've missed Wales.