Gorgeous Forties

Making Time for What's Really Important

I received one of those poems in my e-mail today, you know the sort you are obliged to send on to at least ten other people within three hours of reading it?   And then it occurred to me that a blog is a great way of sharing the sentiments of the poem with a lot more than ten people. Here it is.   I hope you enjoy it.

What's Your Real Age?

I took this rather marvellous online quiz at www.RealAge.com and it let me know that rather than 51.5 years old which I actually am, it considers that I am only 48.4, a whole 3.1 years younger!   Whoopee!

To what does it attibute my youthful edge, when in fact I push my luck with my weight?

Well, its all in the...

My Desert Island Selections - Part 1

Marion Ryan says:

Well how spooky is that?  I was driving home from somewhere last Sunday, singing along to a song on a CD compilation of very old songs.  What was the song?  "Young Girl" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap!  You'd have to be a Gorgeous Forty to remember when that came out.

Suddenly I realised I was crying and God, it felt good.  It made me wonder what songs other Gorgeous Forties remember with such fondness that hearing them again after so many years would make them cry.

And the spooky bit was Jane Tilton blogging the very next day about Desert Island Discs (see below) which requires the week's guest to choose their top eight pieces of music (and books, Jane?) and Claire Raikes picking up on the idea and wanting to share her favourites too.

So how great would it be to share, perhaps, what we'd take to a desert island with us - our top 5 books, top 5 pieces of music and our one luxury item...

You Know You Need to Change Your Career When...

Anne Walsh says:

1. You fantasise about working in a tollbooth on the M50

2. The highlights of the day are tea breaks and lunchtime.

3. You know you have said all this before but you can’t remember when.

4. You keep ringing the talking clock because you know the clock in work is slow by a few hours.

5. You go to work and when you return home you have no memory of what happened in between.

6. You wonder what the new person at work is so enthusiastic about.

7. You volunteer to do the photocopying for everyone.

8. You wish your customers would leave you alone…they always seem to want something.

9. You pretend to be on the dole when people ask you what you do.

10. You create a calendar that shows how many days you have until retirement.

Getting Yer Bumps Felt

Judith Morgan says:

Well, I said to Wise Jane at our last meeting for our Your Best Year Yet work we do together, "I'm thinking of getting some acupuncture" and she said "you don't want to do that, get some cranial sacral therapy".   So I did.   Some say that if Wise Jane told me to jump off a high building, I would!   And I would give it some serious consideration because she has, after all, had alternative care of my proactive health and wellbeing for - what, Jane?   Fifteen years?   At least.

My Desert Island Dilemma

Jane Tilton says:

Or a side effect of the menopause?   

I try to convince myself that I am a deep, complex, cultured woman with a wide and varied interest in the arts and life. 

But I am always caught out.

Like me I expect you have all worked out exactly which 8 records you would take onto your desert island when you are asked.  For those outside the UK, there is a programme called Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 where each week a guest is invited to say which eight records (songs) they'd take with them if they were thus stranded on a desert island.  And then the crunch...one luxury item they would absolutely not wish to be without.