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@joho I hath been repeatedly laughed at and told by my spouse if I'm gonna wear socks, smush them down. I do wear what's left of my white socks and most are now crew cut and lower (?) .
@joyce I'm not sure what memories about the first time I actually saw a t.v. happened first. (I'm around your age.). At my grandparents and great grandparents in Vermillion, OH. I saw Peyton Place and fell asleep to be carried to bed when Walt Disney was on. At home, I tried sneaking a watch of King Kong on our hi-fi (stereo?) t.v. My brother caught me and said I could watch it next year.
Very cool subject. Thanks.
#GettingOld
Gerrit GragertAls ich #otd vor 18 Jahren zwei kleine Wesen auf meinen Unterarmen hielt, konnte ich mir nicht vorstellen, dass die beiden Kerle mich eines Tages überragen. Heute gebe ich die Verantwortung, die mir damals in die Wiege gelegt wurde, wieder ab. Es ist hier für Eltern wie beim Laufen lernen: irgendwann lässt man sie los, dass sie alleine durch die Welt tappen, bleibt aber in Reichweite, um beim Stolpern wieder aufzuhelfen. Und es bewegt mich mehr, als ich erwartet hätte. #FediEltern #GettingOld
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Baillehache PascalComplete has-been me looking desperately to his front door mail box.
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Joyce LionaronsI just read an article in which several people 100 years old or older were interviewed about their lives. One man mentioned that he remembered seeing a TV for the first time.
I'm nowhere near 100, but I remember the first time I saw TV. I was four years old, and my grandmother bought a television -- a small screen in a huge cabinet, and we all went to her house to watch it for the first time. As I remember, it was some sort of variety show, then changed to news and I got bored. This would have been 1955. My parents didn't buy a TV for another four or five years.
Do you remember the first time you saw a television?
WIST QuotationsFor the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright [William Somerset Maugham]
The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938)
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Maugham, W. Somerset - The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938) | WIST Quotations
For the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out…
Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺Following Sacha's fall in the kitchen last week when she had trouble alerting me - I've put alarm buttons in strategic places at knee height around the house.
They're only cheap eBay doorbells (set to a siren sound) but should serve to make enough of a racket to alert me of a problem if I'm around.
They're also by our outside doors so could work as a 'kind of' panic alarm.
(I was hoping to get Alexa to respond to the siren noise, but it doesn't recognise it as bleeping, coughing or snoring!)
While I was in the garden cutting the grass, Sacha was in the kitchen cleaning the fridge.
She fell over (or at our age 'had a fall') and needed picking up.
She seems to be fine but thinks she's going to have a colourful derriere helped along by the anticoagulants.
She's rather stiff and aching as well.
I'm not sure I've got the strength for this any more!