Rowena8482 
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My nanna will be 93 on the 21st of this month :-D
Reply #2801. Jun 08 11, 4:03 AM
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Professer
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what a great age Rowena, my gran lived to the ripe old age of 97, sadly was killed off by a stroke.
Reply #2802. Jun 08 11, 4:47 AM
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| lesley153
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Rowena, that's impressive! What will you be doing to celebrate?
Gary, you could have left it at 97... |
Reply #2803. Jun 08 11, 5:05 AM
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| C30
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Gary beat you by 1 year..........my Gran was 98......and at Lesley's request will leave it at that!
Red............don't forget tomorrow !
Btw I always tell my wife that I remember clearly the day she was born! I do...........2nd June 1958 I sailed from Portsmouth bound for Singapore onboard my first ship that day!
Reply #2804. Jun 08 11, 7:44 AM
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Jazmee27
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One of my roommates last year at the Hyman Caplan was 90 years old, and so sweet :)
Georgette, the friend whose birthday is Friday, is coming over Sunday, and I'm planning on treating her to lunch or dinner for her birthday
Reply #2805. Jun 08 11, 7:58 AM
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Rowena8482
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I don't know what (if anything) she's doing this year - she had a huge party when she turned 90. We'll visit with cards and flowers and stuff, but other than that I don't know.
I have a friend whose gran reached at least 106 (I say that because I don't know how old she was when she died, if she was still with us she'd be 112 - she might be for all I know lol, she was one indomitable lady!)
She lived alone in a house with a coal fire for all the heating and hot water until she was 101, then said she wanted to go into a home because "she was sick of carrying buckets of coal up the yard in winter" :-D (The pictures of her 106th birthday party are lovely - you might be able to see them on FB Lesley, if you look for my friend David whose birthday is today, they're his, but I don't know how he has his settings for viewing them re friends of friends.)
Reply #2806. Jun 08 11, 12:39 PM
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| lesley153
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Ray, I remember that date too. It was my parents' wedding anniversary, and I was very very young. Incredibly young!
Jazmee, have a lovely time Sunday. I was a bit confused by the name Hyman Kaplan - wasn't he an author? No, I was thinking of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, and he isn't real.
Rowena, I've found your friend David (I've seen him before, and I'm sure I've got the right one) but he's put chains round his profile, so the only pic I can see is his face. Please wish him a happy birthday, from a soft southern woman he doesn't know. Have a good time celebrating your grandmother's birthday.
I want to be 100, cranky, and throw bits of coal at people. Nobody in my family has beaten 80 (apart from my uncle, who was not a good advert for humanity). I'd be very happy to have his longevity genes, without out his malicious grudge-bearing vengeful genes.
PAUL - REMEMBER TOMORROW! |
Reply #2807. Jun 08 11, 1:28 PM
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| C30
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Longevity is, so I have read, inherited in our genes.
So..............Father.....................85
Mother.....................83
Grandmother (Paternal).....62
" (Maternal).....98
Grandfather (Paternal).....71
" (Maternal).....48
Family average 74.5...........pays yer money and takes yer chance!
Reply #2808. Jun 08 11, 1:46 PM
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| lesley153
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Mother 74, her mother 80, her father 65, her sister 53, her brother 94
Father 67, his father about 50, his mother 80, his sisters 50s and 70s
Average including siblings 69.3
Average excluding siblings 69.3
Looks like the three score and ten works. I want more! |
Reply #2809. Jun 08 11, 4:16 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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My Dad turned 93 in March. He still gets around, but we don't see each other. I talk to him, and my stepmom at least once a month.
I live in Nevada, and DaD lives where I grew up...in Alaska. I'd like to go back, just because. :)
Reply #2810. Jun 08 11, 7:20 PM
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| lesley153
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| Is something stopping you, or making it difficult? |
Reply #2811. Jun 08 11, 7:43 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Only the financial stuff. Other wise, I plan to see DaD at some point, this year.
Reply #2812. Jun 08 11, 8:56 PM
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| lesley153
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Oh that's not a problem - just put on your shortest skirt, and start walking.
Why does DaD have a final capital D please? |
Reply #2813. Jun 09 11, 10:50 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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HA! I don't know, I just like it I guess. I sign off as MoM too, when 'talking' to the kids.:)
Reply #2814. Jun 09 11, 11:20 AM
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REDVIKING57
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Thanks for the reminder,Lesley and Ray (#2808/2804).
Off to dinner tonight. Nice,intimate candlelit dinner for two.
Sadly,got to take the two sprogs as well. :((
Ah,well - worse things happen at sea!
Reply #2815. Jun 09 11, 11:29 AM
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REDVIKING57
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That would be #2807. :))
Reply #2816. Jun 09 11, 11:30 AM
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| lesley153
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| Well in that case it would be a nice, intimate candlelit dinner for four. I can't think of anything better. Not without a bit of notice. Have a lovely evening and save us a doggy bag. |
Reply #2817. Jun 09 11, 11:55 AM
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| lesley153
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| This evening, Jonathan is at a recording of Have I Got News For You. I am a teensy bit jealous. |
Reply #2818. Jun 09 11, 1:29 PM
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Professer
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your Jealous Lesley i am envious love the show, hope he had a good time
Reply #2819. Jun 10 11, 4:50 AM
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| lesley153
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Me too. We went to see it a few years ago (when he got the tickets) with Alexander Armstrong in the chair. It was a bit feeble, but better after editing, of course, otherwise I don't suppose it would have been shown. Armstrong was surprisingly feeble. That's when I realised how valuable Paul Merton is. Every time the show was danger of collapsing, Merton would come in with a surreal rant that got it back on track. He's not the idiot he makes himself out to be - he drives it and holds it together.
The one they saw yesterday was hosted by Jo Brand, who knows what she's doing and was very much in control, even managing to make a heckler be quiet and stay quiet. Jonathan said there were a lot of jokes that you knew wouldn't make it onto the telly, but quite enough that would. Bit surprised that J's girlfriend has never heard of Private Eye. |
Reply #2820. Jun 10 11, 5:24 AM
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