One Of The Oldest Inhabitants

[poliphilo]

My age

53 How old are other lj users are compared to me:

Younger My age Older 99% 0% 1%

There are 751 lj users the same age as me.

Enter age:

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I'm kinda proud of this.

Just call me gran'f'er. I sit in my accustomed seat in the shade of the chestnut tree. My face is a withered apple. The tip of my long white beard keeps dipping into the froth of the tankard of Old Peculiar that I keep balanced on my knee.

Ah, the times that I have seen!

Comments

Re: consolation

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They're teenagers- they can do what they like. The Earth is theirs.

I don't believe I posted my true age to begin with. I thought no-one would want to be my friend if I 'fessed up (awwww.)

And my user icon was a shot that only showed my eyes.

That's a wonderful story about the two old ladies.

Can I match it? Not really. My granny remembered a relative who remembered riding on the Isle of Wight ferry with Alfred Lord Tennyson, but the story ends there. Tennyson just sat or stood on deck and failed to do or say anything memorable.

Re: consolation

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I felt the same way, and I still wonder if some people befriend me because I am such a curiosity--so old, yet so oddly immature!

BTW:

I am so much enjoying the wonderful scene in which Maggie runs to the car to escape the upstairs ghost (and looks of course upstairs to see if a blue light is flickering! Of course!), then has that amazing dream, and is now carrying skipping stones to the rock...

This is just so much fun to read. You will surely win the contest...how I wish I could write so elegantly, yet wittily, too, (she gushed)

Re: consolation

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much.

All my novels have ghosts in them. I just can't help myself...

Re: consolation

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Awww! I would have been your friend, darling! I myself feel like I'm a kajillion years old all the time. And then, you know, I break up with a fiance and cry and fail a test or something. [Giggles]

Birthday is coming up!

Re: consolation

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You're sweet.

But it's remarkable how friendships spring up on LJ which would never ever- for all sorts of reasons- be possible in "real life".

Re: consolation

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know! I don't think I will be going back to Europe any time in the near future. But now, what better reason to visit than to meet all the wonderful people this community has provided me with?

I am really happy to have met you, by the way. I think you are right, I don't know that we would have been friends without this wondrous little world--and what a sad thought! You light up my days with your insightful entries!

Re: consolation

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Abd I am so pleased to have met you too.

Perhaps we are making a new and better world.

Re: consolation

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether we are making a better world, as "better" seems to be more and more a relative term to be applied in retrospect while boasting 20/20 vision in rose-colored hindsight.

However, we are letting the world know us and in so doing, are every day collapsing wavefunctions and causing chain reactions like ripples all around us. That, I think, is wonderful. To affect and be affected. Good, bad, whatever. Ours--yes.

Re: consolation

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yeah ripples.....

And we're not in the least bit limited by space. Something written in Australia can have an immediate impact in L.A. or Frankfurt.

We are changing the way the world works....

Re: consolation

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

The world is the same, we are changing the way the people are working it! [Smiles]

Re: consolation

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Precisely!

Re: consolation

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Cheers, then, dear!