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Old and Wise.......

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the soul afraid of dying never learns to live................

Just in reflection mode and listening to this stunning piece of music by the Alan Parsons project...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NLtFsiOFn ... re=related


Perhaps you are already Old and wise, or maybe you are fast approaching the Old bit and hoping the wise will follow :shock:

My question to you is what do you want to achieve before the final curtain call?
Or have you already achieved it?

I want to see my daughter walk down the aisle looking every bit the princess on that day!
Might have to get a new frock for that day and leave the jeans behind!
:roll:

So what is yours? or what was yours?
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Hello N l just picked up ya old n wise bit an thought Ill reply to the question you asked yesterday Wots a Silver Surfer? Its wot they call us old uns, what spend there time on the internet .... an while I,m on just chattin in Sept a few of us come over that way to the boat festival on the cut at bumble hole it was a bostin day lovely weather we was there all day plenty goin on popped in that pub THE DRY DOCK do ya know it got a unusual bar any way it got me thinking my ancestors could have done their courtin round there along the cut I said to the missus as we came through Halesowen n Rowley Regis that this is where the family came from.....speak to agin soon Sirrom
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Hi Sirrom

Sounds like you had a good day post a thread on here in the snug and tell us about it if ya like -
I have been to bumblehole but not the boat festival will try next year.
And yes bet they did walk down the canal hand in hand....ah!! bless!! then had 14 kids! :o
see it begins when you sink in their arms and ends with yer arms in their sink!
:(

So Sirrom...you got any thing left to do !.....any thing you always wanted to do?

and anyone else.....come on ambitions, hopes, big big dreams or teeny eeny ones...maybe snow boarding! or bungee jumping
post here!
tell us wot u gonna cram into your life before the big guy in the sky pulls the rug!!


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How old do you have to be to qualify as a "Silver Surfer"?
What if you were bald? :?
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Or worse dyed your hair... :o
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I'm saving up for flying lessons on my 90th birthday. (Thinks some more ... motorized, not those white feathery things!)
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to only make once.
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dianel wrote:I'm saving up for flying lessons on my 90th birthday. (Thinks some more ... motorized, not those white feathery things!)


Brilliant Di!!

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dianel wrote:I'm saving up for flying lessons on my 90th birthday. (Thinks some more ... motorized, not those white feathery things!)


Save up for the landing lessons first. :wink:
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:roll:

So come on GG wot do you fancy doing or have you been there done that?
Sailing round the med, white water rafting... I really fancy that one!.....tell us!
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Well NL mines not as exiting as White water rafting.
I spent a year working in South Africa many years ago,in all that time I only managed two days on a game reserve so I would love to go back and shoot big game (with my camera) specially the big cats just love em. :wink:
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Hi Ginggang (gooly?) talking of big cats have you been watching the programme on BBC about Big Cats?
Great stuff!1 Realy interesting!! :o
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Rob wrote:Hi Ginggang (gooly?) talking of big cats have you been watching the programme on BBC about Big Cats?
Great stuff!1 Realy interesting!! :o


Yes Rob I have, but missed last night's, got held up,hope to catch a repeat sometime. Its fascinating :-)
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There was an email going around some time ago ... Something about, when the time comes, to aim to skate sideways through the Pearly Gates with a bottle of wine in one hand, yelling "Wahooooo!" That's an image that inspires me. I'm planning to grow old thoroughly disgracefully ... Come to think of it ... I've already started! :lol:
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dianel wrote:There was an email going around some time ago ... Something about, when the time comes, to aim to skate sideways through the Pearly Gates with a bottle of wine in one hand, yelling "Wahooooo!" That's an image that inspires me. I'm planning to grow old thoroughly disgracefully ... Come to think of it ... I've already started! :lol:


That sounds great Di love that one!
:lol:

There was a line in the Shawshank redemption film... brill film... said get busy living or get busy dying!

:?
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I suddenly feel reflective!! :o

In the words of Tao Te Ching-
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will you will try to hold on to.
If you aren't afraid of dying,
there is nothing you can't achieve. :?
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