h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh I'll let them do a party for me this year

Good lass! Now, about that....

Yes plenty of and will be great too.

I tend not to want a fuss for any birthdays except the traditional 'landmarks' (18, 21, &c.) and decades. Of course, when I say I don't want a fuss... I still hope for awesome presents.

Thats what i wanted mr D a quiet time on my own but now i have changed my mindand want to party as i may be old but i can still have a good time...

I continue to celebrate the decades...that's about it.

"148 new posts" that I can't be 4rsed to read...makes me feel old old old.

RF

Hello RF

you feeling old too eh well join the club we all moan here over get old

Thats the spirit have a laugh and party while you can before you end up with a zimmer frame like we all have sometime in the future

Huh! I feel like I need a zimmer NOW!

RF

Awww RF

why do you need the Zimmer frame now? have you got aches and pains in your legs?

I've got aches and pains everywhere at the moment ...March has started badly. I have higher expectations for April.

RF

RF

maybe your coming down with a cold as i always get aches and pains when i feel too.

I hope you feel better when april arrives

When your children ask you what it was like "in the days of black and white."

It wasn't all in black and white my dad said they had colour

I know what you mean as sarah asked me the other day why have i been putting tooth paste in my hair it was hair dye to cover up my silver strands of hair.

RF
your deffo not old your only 30 same age as me wait till your 45 and come back and moan at me all you want

A close reading of my PS will reveal that I'm no longer in my 30s, PoH!

Yeah, colds, eh? What a bugger they are. So, I caught one just before my holiday...managed to shake it off on holiday, then caught another (foreign - so no antibodies) just in time to come back to the UK.

RF

RF

So your older and older as ever eh?

I hate it when you get a cold at our ages and it dosn't go for at least 2 or 3 weeks

Calm down don't let them little bugs annoy you they be gone soon what are you taking for your aches and pains?

I caught a cold off hubby about 5 weeks ago and I'm still suffering. The cold developed into bronchitis, my nose is still a bit bunged and my ears feel like they're blocked, even though they're not. I've been using my Ventolin inhaler like there's no tomorrow, so the asthma nurse has put me on to Becotide in an attempt to beat the problem. Oh, and I seem to be having an MS relapse, and it's probably the MS that made the cold last so long.

None of this makes me feel old, just weak and unwell. I bought a cap at the weekend with "WRECK" embroidered across the front. It sums up the way I feel at the moment.

Hi cheerful
You have got MS? i do hope you get better with that illness my mother has MS and it's attacking her heart been told to exspect she go any time i do hope you get over your cold.

Cheerful Dragon - use ginger root for your bronchitis. Put it in a mug with a a couple of slices of lemon and pour hot water in. Let it stand for a couple of minutes and sip it slowly until it's all gone. Have that a couple of times a day. I used to get bronchitis a lot and found that very effective.

>it's probably the MS that made the cold last so long.<

I agree, Cheerful. Hubby's had a cold for over a month, his asthma has got worse too. Two weeks ago he stumbled on the stairs and is walking with a stick at the moment, which is making him old (he's only 37). He's putting all this down to *his* MS.

Thank BoB I don't have MS, to those that do...

The cold has gone, but has left me with blocked ears as well.

Now, back when I were a lad (adopts Northern accent, dons flat cap and mysteriously procures a whippet out of thin air) you'd tootle yourself down to yon quack's office, and he'd whip out a hideous piece of equipment and wash your ears out with it. Afterwards, he'd get the syringe and clean out the wax...no, no, no, STOP THAT! You're being silly!

Anyway, enough of that. Honestly, the palaver you have to go through to get your ears syringed on the NHS these days is pathetic! Earliest they can do me, apparently, is next Thursday. How crap is that?

Anyway, until then, can you all please type extra loud so that I can hear you properly? Thanks.

RF