Care to declare ... how old you are?

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  1. Paladin

    Paladin Gardening...A work of Heart

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    Give it time Pete,your only months in as yet :D
    I found it did Steve....ran myself ragged for years now I've slowed to a gentle canter :D
     
  2. Anne-Marie

    Anne-Marie Apprentice Gardener

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    36.

    I remember nearly all the stuff in slugbugs post - Does that make me an 'old' 36!!
     
  3. Liz

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    Anne-Marie, thanks for bringing this to the top, I hadn't read it before, another good laugh from this forum! We've got a new youngest member, Dave Martin, but [unless anyone knows better] Rosietu still has her crown for the other end of the spectrum. [​IMG]

    [ 17. March 2006, 06:52 PM: Message edited by: Liz ]
     
  4. Fran

    Fran Gardener

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    One of the nice things about gardening is that there are no age barriers - just physical ones (whatever your age) and a little adaptation can get round most of those :D

    Added bonus is that is a very healthy (physical and mental) occupation - if one excludes the hazards.
     
  5. strongylodon

    strongylodon Old Member

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    I could be 45 but I am a bit backward too. :D :D
     
  6. DAG

    DAG Gardener

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    I thought no one on here would confess to being over 29! A nice age?

    66 for me!

    To quote Davd Allen:

    "Being over 60 has 3 problems:

    The first is loss of memory, and the second two I've forgotten!" :D :D :D
     
  7. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Who said? Old age is not so bad, when you consider the alternative.
     
  8. Beefy

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    Im 35 and lots of people tell me" If you think its hard pushing 40 wait till you start pulling it" :D :D :D
     
  9. UsedtobeDendy

    UsedtobeDendy Gardener

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    If I said I was backwards, I'd be a lot older than I really am!! 47! [​IMG]
     
  10. mayflower

    mayflower Gardener

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    if only we could turn back time i would be sweet 16 put would iwant to be dont think so.
     
  11. Tortuosa

    Tortuosa Gardener

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    Sour-forty is far more fun. ;)
     
  12. Fran

    Fran Gardener

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    Fabulous fifties - is so much better. Someone told me that there is a change in mind set at 50 - and they were right. Life gets back in proportion. Now if someone would please stop the body clock - I would be well content. :D :D
     
  13. sheppy

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    I'm 43 and get a shock everytime I look in the mirror! Inside I'm still that 15 year old who hasn't a clue where life is taking her!
     
  14. DAG

    DAG Gardener

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    sheppy, but if we did know where life was taking us, it would be boring?

    Anyway, where ever you are, you start all over again when you retire! ;)
     
  15. Nik

    Nik Gardener

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    Well I've just blown my first tranche of winter fuel allowance on a week in Spain, though the Head Gardener reckons she'd already spent it on frocks before Christmas.

    Nik (61 and past it before I knew it was there! :confused: )
     
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