http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/24/3172059.htm?section=world

I thought she was going to live to 100…gee she was tough…and she didn’t whinge…lurve “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”…

…and The Taming of the Shrew…Camelot…They do it with Mirrors (or was it The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side? an Agatha Christie movie)…her best contribution was to bring Richard Burton and his wonderful Welsh speaking voice to the attention of the world…

Damn, why can’t they keep on keeping on?

Dinetta said:

…and The Taming of the Shrew…Camelot…They do it with Mirrors (or was it The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side? an Agatha Christie movie)…her best contribution was to bring Richard Burton and his wonderful Welsh speaking voice to the attention of the world…

Damn, why can’t they keep on keeping on?

I got one wrong: it was Under Milk Wood that I was thinking of, not Camelot…

Dinetta said:

Damn, why can’t they keep on keeping on?

Some do. George Burns was in his 90s wasn’t he? (Just checked – he was 100 when he went!)

Katherine Hepburn was 96.

Who else (famous) is still on the planet at a grand old age I wonder, that we don’t hear about?

Besides, Liz Taylor hanging on till 79 was a pretty good innings.

I reckon if you get at least a decade past retirement age that’s pretty good.

Me, I’m going out aged 88 in full control of my faculties, mowing my own lawn and chopping my own wood ;) It’s a real plan!!

Yeehah said:

Dinetta said:

Damn, why can’t they keep on keeping on?

Some do. George Burns was in his 90s wasn’t he? (Just checked – he was 100 when he went!)

Katherine Hepburn was 96.

Who else (famous) is still on the planet at a grand old age I wonder, that we don’t hear about?

Besides, Liz Taylor hanging on till 79 was a pretty good innings.

I reckon if you get at least a decade past retirement age that’s pretty good.

Me, I’m going out aged 88 in full control of my faculties, mowing my own lawn and chopping my own wood ;) It’s a real plan!!

Just reading the comments on the news, she sure packed a lot into her life…she had the opportunities and she grabbed them…was it Richard Burton who said she wore all these diamonds to a function and on her they looked superb (meaning others wouldn’t have worn them so well..)

I hope to be still gainfully employed at 70…yours sounds like a plan I could “live” with…
My late best friend and I were making plans, we figured at 52 (back then) we had 40 years at least to enjoy all the lessons we’ve learnt so far…and we were going to the same aged care facility together to help each other remember things (like our names and who those blokes were beside us when we woke up all those years ago – our husbands I mean!) … but she’s gone now… guess I’ll have to “fitten” myself up so’s I don’t need an aged care facility!

Dinetta said:

… guess I’ll have to “fitten” myself up so’s I don’t need an aged care facility!

Sounds like yet another good plan :)

I’ve been feeling lost lately with just me in the house all the time, and Littlefella every other week.

Work is great, love it. Got to get me a plan for what to do with all the spare time I have though.

If the bluddy house got sold I could be playing with my own house, and have the money to pay for the course I’d like to do (it’s not a HECS course, needs funds up-front).

What to do, what to do! Wish there was some easy voluntary work I could put my hand up for … can’t seem to find anything to suit, and besides it’s such a clique-y little town, hard to tease out the “who“s of the different service organisations.

She was strikingly beautiful and had a full life. RIP Liz.

I’m going for the ton! 100. Seeing as I’m already in ‘time on’ for life expectancy. I want me congrats letter from the Queen.

Yeehah said:

Me, I’m going out aged 88 in full control of my faculties, mowing my own lawn and chopping my own wood ;) It’s a real plan!!

at the same time :)

bluegreen said:

Yeehah said:

Me, I’m going out aged 88 in full control of my faculties, mowing my own lawn and chopping my own wood ;) It’s a real plan!!

at the same time :)

yeah – one in each hand
go yeehah and me – rage against the dying of the light.

Liz was extra good at loosing herself in her acting. she did some great protrayals of wild, angry women.

Happy Potter said:

She was strikingly beautiful and had a full life. RIP Liz.

I’m going for the ton! 100. Seeing as I’m already in ‘time on’ for life expectancy. I want me congrats letter from the Queen.

My Grandmother was nearly 101 but by the end she was off with the fairies most of the time.

I reckon if you get at least a decade past retirement age that’s pretty good.

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Might sound good now Yeehah but wait till you get there and see what you think is a good time to go!

Yeehah said:

Me, I’m going out aged 88 in full control of my faculties, mowing my own lawn and chopping my own wood ;) It’s a real plan!!

Aiming low Yeehah – my grandpa in law is 102 and can still push the lawn mower :D (he does usually get one of his kids to do the mowing, but the local paper came around for a photo when he turned 100, so without anyone asking he grabbed the mower and took off across the lawn! )

pomolo said:

I reckon if you get at least a decade past retirement age that’s pretty good.

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Might sound good now Yeehah but wait till you get there and see what you think is a good time to go!

My mother was doing fine up until she broke her hip at 88…she would have been better if she’d bothered to get off her bed and do some socialising and some exercise…she’d probably still be at home at 93 now instead of at a nursing home…a friend’s grandmother was still hanging out her own washing at 100, but made it to 102 with everything intact except strength…

pomolo said:

I reckon if you get at least a decade past retirement age that’s pretty good.

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Might sound good now Yeehah but wait till you get there and see what you think is a good time to go!

I said AT LEAST, lol!!!!!

bon008 said:

Yeehah said:

Me, I’m going out aged 88 in full control of my faculties, mowing my own lawn and chopping my own wood ;) It’s a real plan!!

Aiming low Yeehah – my grandpa in law is 102 and can still push the lawn mower :D (he does usually get one of his kids to do the mowing, but the local paper came around for a photo when he turned 100, so without anyone asking he grabbed the mower and took off across the lawn! )

Pessimists are the happiest people in the world, didn’t you know? They’re either right or they’re pleasantly surprised!

As long as I’m able to look after myself and have all my marbles, 100 is a good age to aim for too. But statistically speaking, I’m probably more realistic to aim for 88 – especially if you add the health problems that run in my family.

Healthy and happy, no matter what age, is the aim!

My Pop just turned 88 and still lives an almost self sufficient lifestyle, gets out and hoes his 5 acres every day. When he comes for visits he brings a tucker box full of home grown fruit and vegies, and his favourite hoe has to come too :)

Last year he used a mattock to dig up 10 × 8 metre area in my back yard, it took him half an hour.

shellbell said:

My Pop just turned 88 and still lives an almost self sufficient lifestyle, gets out and hoes his 5 acres every day. When he comes for visits he brings a tucker box full of home grown fruit and vegies, and his favourite hoe has to come too :)

Last year he used a mattock to dig up 10 × 8 metre area in my back yard, it took him half an hour.

gotta be fit to hoe 5 acres every day… soil profile might be naff with all that tilling though.

pain master said:

shellbell said:

My Pop just turned 88 and still lives an almost self sufficient lifestyle, gets out and hoes his 5 acres every day. When he comes for visits he brings a tucker box full of home grown fruit and vegies, and his favourite hoe has to come too :)

Last year he used a mattock to dig up 10 × 8 metre area in my back yard, it took him half an hour.

gotta be fit to hoe 5 acres every day… soil profile might be naff with all that tilling though.

My grandparents only started going down hill when they decided to retire, which in my grandfathers mind meant just sitting all day.
Stubborn old coot he was.