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gerry

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I am doing some research on single over 50s and was wondering if anyone could let me know in this area if there is any regular meeting drinks or dinner for this age group. I would appreciate anyone replying, any age group, or experience. Please PM me with your responses if that's easier for you. Many thanks.
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gerry

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Thanks everyone. Has anyone used online dating, supper clubs, theme weekends or meeting through friends? This is research for a paper I am writing so your responses are very helpful, especially your own experiences. Please PM me if you wish. Many thanks for your time.
Sue

Sue

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gerry Wrote:

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> I am doing some research on single over 50s and

> was wondering if anyone could let me know in this

> area if there is any regular meeting drinks or

> dinner for this age group. I would appreciate

> anyone replying, any age group, or experience.

> Please PM me with your responses if that's easier

> for you. Many thanks.


xxxx


Do people suddenly become so different on their fiftieth birthday that they feel the need to stop doing the things they used to do and suddenly start mixing only with other people who have also reached their fiftieth birthday?


I thought this sort of thinking had stopped years ago - how very sad to find that it hasn't.


We are all individuals with all sorts of different interests - why define us by our ages?


I'm in my sixties, and I'd run a mile if I thought I was going anywhere where anybody under 50 was excluded.


No wonder people still feel the need to lie about their age, grrrrrr.


Now I'll go back to my crochet and jam making - oh, I forgot, the younger generation are into those now, aren't they, better find something more suited to my mature years. Not.


Oh yeh, and I met my (younger) partner at the party of a mutual friend half my age. Good thing I didn't pass up the party to go to an over-fifties supper club :))

Laddy Muck

Laddy Muck

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Sue Wrote:

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> Do people suddenly become so different on their

> fiftieth birthday that they feel the need to stop

> doing the things they used to do and suddenly

> start mixing only with other people who have also

> reached their fiftieth birthday?

>

> I thought this sort of thinking had stopped years

> ago - how very sad to find that it hasn't.

>

> We are all individuals with all sorts of different

> interests - why define us by our ages?

>

> I'm in my sixties, and I'd run a mile if I thought

> I was going anywhere where anybody under 50 was

> excluded...

>

> Now I'll go back to my crochet and jam making -

> oh, I forgot, the younger generation are into

> those now, aren't they, better find something more

> suited to my mature years. Not.



Well said, Sue.



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AND THE OVER FIFTIES GO MARCHING ON ON ON!

DulwichFox

DulwichFox

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Time for a Lyric..


Old friends, old friends sat on their parkbench like bookends

A newspaper blowin' through the grass

Falls on the round toes of the high shoes of the old friends


Old friends, winter companions, the old men

Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun

The sounds of the city sifting through trees

Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends


Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a parkbench quietly

How terribly strange to be seventy


20 years to go..

or what about.. It was 65 years ago today, Seargent Pepper taught the band to play..(it was 20 years ago in 1967)


Fox.

Sue

Sue

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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Time for a Lyric..

>

> Old friends, old friends sat on their parkbench

> like bookends

> A newspaper blowin' through the grass

> Falls on the round toes of the high shoes of the

> old friends

>

> Old friends, winter companions, the old men

> Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun

> The sounds of the city sifting through trees

> Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old

> friends

>

> Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a

> parkbench quietly

> How terribly strange to be seventy

>

> 20 years to go..

> or what about.. It was 65 years ago today,

> Seargent Pepper taught the band to play..(it was

> 20 years ago in 1967)

>

> Fox.



Foxie, have you been taking something you shouldn't?


:))

DulwichFox

DulwichFox

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Sue Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Time for a Lyric..

> >

> > Old friends, old friends sat on their

> parkbench

> > like bookends

> > A newspaper blowin' through the grass

> > Falls on the round toes of the high shoes of

> the

> > old friends

> >

> > Old friends, winter companions, the old men

> > Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun

> > The sounds of the city sifting through trees

> > Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old

> > friends

> >

> > Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a

> > parkbench quietly

> > How terribly strange to be seventy

> >

> > 20 years to go..

> > or what about.. It was 65 years ago today,

> > Seargent Pepper taught the band to play..(it

> was

> > 20 years ago in 1967)

> >

> > Fox.

>

>

> Foxie, have you been taking something you

> shouldn't?

>

> :))


Ok.. The Truth is... All the over 50's go to 'The Castle'.. :)


Except Me.


Fox.

uncleglen

uncleglen

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Anywhere in Camden/ Kentish Town where there are live heavy metal bands- preferably Death metal- and preferably free gigs (saving up for the pension don't you know) until the festival season starts- then its Helfest(Clisson), Wacken (Germany) and Bloodstock (Catton Hall). You can watch the likes of Motorhead and Saxon whose members are older than you but they can still put on a 2 hour set around midnight.
EJTH

EJTH

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As someone approaching 50, the thought of just mixing and associating with any single age group turns me cold. My wide group of friends, ie those with whom I have regular face to face and online contact, spans 20s to early 80s. God help me if I ever only socialised with my own age group; have never done that before and have no intention of starting at 50!!!!!

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