tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049626897935912366.post6571537563628365563..comments2024-03-28T15:00:12.581-04:00Comments on Letters from a Hill Farm: "You make me feel so young"Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15547916206007733970noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049626897935912366.post-79097079895371084892008-04-02T22:11:00.000-04:002008-04-02T22:11:00.000-04:00I'm an Oldie fan as well, and am still in my early...I'm an Oldie fan as well, and am still in my early fifties! It's the perfect antidote for all those other hideous publications for older people that treat them/us like we're all ga-ga and interested only in stretching classes, arthritis bangles and comfy shoes. Read on!Lesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07175734326888791038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049626897935912366.post-29436156985766807862008-04-02T03:36:00.001-04:002008-04-02T03:36:00.001-04:00P.S. As I'm 56 next week, perhaps I should look a...P.S. As I'm 56 next week, perhaps I should look at The Oldie too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049626897935912366.post-59609930093305363282008-04-02T03:36:00.000-04:002008-04-02T03:36:00.000-04:00I'm so glad you found my blog Nan, as now I have f...I'm so glad you found my blog Nan, as now I have found YOURS and we have a lot in common. I live in the past, but couldn't be without a computer, or certain things of the modern age. I look on the computer as a vast dictionary and people repository! A bit like those old telephone exchanges where you took a plug from the bottom and hauled it up to plug into a hole on the board, only with people! I have now bookmarked you, you have been warned . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049626897935912366.post-61353115691876224712008-04-02T02:19:00.000-04:002008-04-02T02:19:00.000-04:00I've never heard of The Oldie and have just spent ...I've never heard of The Oldie and have just spent some time looking at it on-line. Thanks for the link - it looks fascinating.<BR/><BR/>No surprises here - I like old things too and I used to love listening to the grown-ups talking whenever I could. And Cath, we used to toast bread on the fire too - sadly I don't have an open fire anymore.<BR/><BR/>I'm a bit more cautious about new things, although I enjoy using the computer enormously.<BR/><BR/>One question, Nan - what is a register?BooksPleasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08721650104596705715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049626897935912366.post-33550321241641919572008-04-01T21:41:00.000-04:002008-04-01T21:41:00.000-04:00I haven't heard of this magazine before - thanks f...I haven't heard of this magazine before - thanks for posting about it - it sounds like a winner. Do you suppose I need to wait 2 years to fully enjoy it? :)<BR/>I enjoyed your memories - I share some of the same ones. My bedroom growing up was over the living room. When relatives and friends visited, I'd open the vent a little and fall asleep listening to stories and laughter from below.krishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13717829287358693407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049626897935912366.post-17166730839305456172008-04-01T19:47:00.000-04:002008-04-01T19:47:00.000-04:00I really ought to look more closely at The Oldie m...I really ought to look more closely at The Oldie magazine. I've heard of it of course but had no idea it was full of such good writing. I'll see if I can pick up a copy in the newsagents sometime. Sounds like it might be worth checking out.<BR/><BR/>Such lovely memories, Nan. And rather similar to mine... being lulled to sleep by the sound of the grown-up's voices while staying with my Gran. When I was older and staying with her on my own we'd toast bread on the dying embers of the fire late into the evening. ('Toaster' toast is not the same at all.) She had no TV so we nattered and did jig-saw puzzles together. Simple pleasures. <BR/><BR/>But, yes, that said, I like new things too, new books, computers and so on. Although a computer for me is nothing less than a tool to communicate with as many people as I can. Which is actually quite an old fashioned idea I suppose. :-) Wonderful post.Cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06371069000185280668noreply@blogger.com