Growing old is mandatory - growing up is entirely optional!

[Chad]

Bizarrely, as my eyesight and hand-eye coordination deteriorate I find myself drawn to smaller and smaller figures with 10mm now being the largest figures I do.


Ithorial

Welcome to the Forum. You are not alone in this. At 65 this same affliction has hit me. It's called 'Pendrakenitis'. You see'em, you want 'em, you buy 'em and life has no meaning unless you paint the lovely little things!! 

Is there a doctor in the house? 

Chad

[fsn]

Is there a doctor in the house? 

Might I recommend SV33 or WW4?

[DaveL]

Hi Ithoriel

Welcome to the "gang".  I was 60 in January, and after the initial shock, you soon set used to it and just get on with it.

Yes 10mm rule OK with us oldies, but what it'll be like when I get REALLY old like Chad I shudder to think   

Best Wishes     DaveL

[Hertsblue]

Old age is all in the mind - and the knees, possibly. 

[mollinary]

I am currently only 58, but I so resemble all the characteristics described so far.  Eyesight, knees, origins of interest in Wargaming (good old Don, changed my life!), gradually converting entirely to the smaller scales. oh, and in case I didn't mention it, I retired 12 days ago 

Mollinary

[Hertsblue]

Congratulations, Andrew. You'll never regret it. 

[Techno]

Enjoy it, that man !!
Cheers - Phil.

[DaveL]

Got NO sympathy with Mollinary.  It's 5 years 1 week and 1 day til I retire!  Not that I'm counting of course!!!!!!!

DaveL

[mollinary]

Got NO sympathy with Mollinary.  It's 5 years 1 week and 1 day til I retire!  Not that I'm counting of course!!!!!!!

DaveL

Dave,

Only one thousand eight hundred and thirty four days to go then!     Many thanks for the lack of sympathy - the actual retirement makes up for all the ailments.  Oh, did I say that you only have 1,834 days to go to experience the same joy?  .  Oh yes, I actually did. - memory, eh! ]   


Mollinary

[fsn]

Despite being aged and fatigued by long years of labour, I cannot see the time when I can retire. I shall probably have to keep working until I reach the ever increasing pension age, and then probably have to work for years beyond that. I shall not bore you all with the sad story of how my selfless nobility left me in solitude and penury at a time when most men were looking to ease in the arms of their family.

I can however, eke out a few pennies to devote to Pendraken every now and again, as long as I forgo holidays and entertaining, food and new clothes.    As I say, the only comfort I have in my advanced, empty years, is the small packages from Pendraken that occasionally plop onto my carpet, along with adverts for foreign trips I can't afford, increases in utility bills and bloody PPI flyers.

This is a very dark time for me, cut off from what used to be my family, due to no fault of my own, and too embarrassed to show my face out of my own front door. I dream of little things, small joys that would mean so much to me. Little tiny metal things that would light up my wretched existence. Centurion shaped comforts that would alleviate my daily, enduring misery. 

[Techno]

We'll keep your spirits up fsn !
You're certainly capable of lifting ours !
Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

Thank you.

I try to keep going.

[DaveL]

Thanks Mollinary.  If it wasn't for Pendraken figures and wargaming, I'd probably have slit my wrists after your "helpful" reply !!!!!!! 

DaveL

[mollinary]

Dave,

It's all an illusion actually,  I was back at work yesterday on a temporary part time contract! 

Mollinary

[nikharwood]

A belated welcome, Ithoriel