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Middle Aged!

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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){

}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 18 Oct 2006 16:33

I just signed myself off as being middle aged on Lynda's thread, but I did think I was probably a bit young to be middle aged. I suppose it depends how long you are going to live!!!!! What do you consider middle aged? Jeanette x

Sylvia Ross

Sylvia Ross Report 18 Oct 2006 16:34

Well 40 used to be called middle-aged; but I believe 50+ is the new middle-aged.... Sylvxx

Fiona

Fiona Report 18 Oct 2006 16:34

Middle aged 40 that's me. Fiona.x

Sylvia Ross

Sylvia Ross Report 18 Oct 2006 16:36

Me? I'm very young at heart... Sylvxx

}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){

}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 18 Oct 2006 16:37

Well I'm 40 too but I don't really feel middle aged. But having said that, 80 would be a good age to reach! I think I'll go with Sylv's answer! I always said I was going to hang around for a long time just to pee everyone off! LOL

Sylvia Ross

Sylvia Ross Report 18 Oct 2006 16:39

My dad, bless him, when he reached the age of 70, said to me, 'this body may be 70 but inside beats a heart of a 16 year old'. Sylvxx

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 18 Oct 2006 16:48

Last year, on my 65th birthday, my daughter sent me a card which had inside it 'you are always the same age inside' I suppose middle age is about 45 these days but it is only a number. In the days of our ancestors a lot of us probably wouldn't be alive now and old age was about 50 so I am definitely over the hill, but, except when my back is playing up, I don't think of myself as old. And when the media talk about elderly ladies of 65 i get quite a shock!! In the late 18th and early and late 19th I had a Gt Gt grandfather die age 77, a Gt Gt Gt die aged 85 and a Gt Gt Gt Gt die aged 93 (Father, son and Grandson) Ann Glos

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Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){

}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 18 Oct 2006 16:55

Yes Ann, most of my ancestors lived to be 85 to 90. They were nearly all Ag Labs so it must have been all that hard work and fresh air!

HeatherofOz

HeatherofOz Report 18 Oct 2006 17:08

The saying goes: 'You are young as the man you cuddle'. Well I must be a child as mind acts as young as his own kids at times. Heather

MaryinSpain

MaryinSpain Report 18 Oct 2006 17:20

If I am as young as the man I cuddle - I will be 59 come December 13th pmsl Mary in Spain

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Dunne, Miller, Evetts. Stringer. Green. Lewis

Keith

Keith Report 18 Oct 2006 17:32

My age plus 5 years. :-) Keith

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Fletcher May Allison Ashcroft Moore

Melanie

Melanie Report 18 Oct 2006 21:24

I have always thought that middle age is ten years older than what ever age i am! When i was in my 20s, someone in their 30s seemed old, now i am 45, they are so young!!!!!