The Grumpy Old Git's Guide to Life

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David has suggested inviting Donald Trump to join them, on the basis that the American President is neither young nor cheerful. It’s a good idea to obey all the rules when you’re young just so you’ll have the strength to break them when you’re old.” If anyone had reason to be glum it was Michael. After all, the Allonby Tea Rooms owner was the only member of the club working. The News & Star photographer arrived. I was delighted when David took a pound from him. “If you want the grumpy look, take a picture of George,” said David.

In case anybody has trouble understanding the meaning of our motto "Share The Love", here is the definition:-You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” Andy Barnard’s T-shirt bore the words ‘Warning – Grumpy Old Para’. Several members are ex-servicemen. Several, including Tony Thompson, moved to Allonby from elsewhere in the country. In January they’re off to Lancaster Leisure Park, which features an antiques centre. “We feel we may have something in common with them,” said David. As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two …” For as actor Maurice Chevalier remarked, old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative. ACCEPTING OLD AGE

The club has several days out a year. “It has to be somewhere where there’s a pub,” pointed out George. As Britain’s population grows gradually older, more and more of us revel in being miserable old gits. As you grow old, you lose interest in sex, your friends drift away, and your children often ignore you. There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn’t all the water gush out when you get in?” Holy Christ, what da you know – I’m still around!’ It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.”

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Others have no one at home. Steve said: “I’m separated. This is a good way to get out and see people. I look forward to it. You go out of here with a big smile on your face.” I would not want it to be thought that I had lived for all these years without having anything to show for it.”

I came up from Kent,” said Tony. “I don’t know the area. This lot tells me the different things that are going on. They’re a fount of knowledge.” When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.” Gits sans Frontières ~ Gits ohne Grenzen ~ Gits bez Granic ~ Gits uden Grænser ~ Gits sonder Grense One of the good things about getting older is you find you’re more interesting than most of the people you meet.”I am getting to an age when I can enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.” I keep fit. Every morning, I do a hundred laps of an Olympic-sized swimming pool – in a small motor launch.” There’s no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age – 80 seems about right – when you’re expected to manifest querulousness – the coffee’s too hot, the boiled egg’s too soft …” Absent Friends ~ Absent Friends ~ Absent Friends ~ Absent Friends ~ Absent Friends ~ Absent Friends But in some ways, I’m like an old woman – lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.”