Just joined so I'm introducing myself.
Watch this postI will be 67 next month and retired from the many different jobs in my working life. I guess that I didn’t ever find my calling. I went to university at age 59 but when it was over it was too late to launch a new career. I wanted to lecture but students don’t want to listen to old fogies, so sadly I put aside that idea and settled into life as an eccentric dog owner.
I live in a beautiful Lancashire valley surrounded by hills that demand they be walked/climbed, how could I refuse?
I would like to do a bit of cycle touring but a recent diagnosis of spondylosis and some hip pain means that I may not be doing a world tour anytime soon!
I’m keen to make some friends as I have been on my own for a very long time now, my daughters don’t bother much with me and I don’t have a partner.I didn’t expect to be so isolated at this time in my life, isn’t it strange the way family and friends seem to forget us when we get past 60?
I will pop in regularly and hope to strike up some friendships.
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Welcome to the site , I Live in Hertfordshire not too far from you
The site hasn't closed down but seems to go "quiet" from time to time! Hope you have ticked all the boxes on your account page so that you know when some-one has added a comment to a subject which you have previously written about. I find it difficult to get on the Forum when I use my iPad but am fine when I use my PC.
I notice that you and your wife live in Norway, Myklebust - do you speak Norwegian? It's a country that is on my bucket list to visit so fingers crossed that I get there one day and also manage to see the Aurora Borealis; that really would be the icing on the cake 🙂 I will look forward to seeing photos of your magnificent scenery on the Community Showcase.
Keep dipping into subjects on the forum which interest you and add your comments and also visit Speakers Corner - that gets quite lively at times and you will soon start to recognise names of people who make regular contributions and those of us who only make the occasional foray into Silversurfing!
Photos don't upload immediately - presumably they have to be censored first 🙂 Your photos have now appeared and they are great - how lovely to live in such beautiful surroundings. How far are you from your nearest shop? I wonder if there is a Sainsburys equivalent that does door-to-door deliveries! I will send you a message in Private Chat and see if you can see that as well as the forum posts.
I am friendly / easy going / sociable /independant / very youthful
Seeking friendly / easy going / interesting / sociable friends . Male or female . Preferably 50 to 65 age group.
Please get in touch - if u r looking to meet new friends. Thank you.
I think I am independent and sociable but don't suffer fools gladly, just deciding that if Indont get my shit sorted I will end up alone and miserable. I would like to make new friends anywhere who are interested and sociable. I am currently also rebuilding my house so sure I may end up in tears more often than not. Do get in touch , thank you for reading
I am an ole fart with this site, I ve been here now for two weeks!! Beside that I guess Iam really an old fart as Iam 58!!! LOL
I live in Indiana now but am looking forward to moving south to S. Carolina, have you ever been to the USA.
Like you, I love meeting new people, especially from other parts of the world.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Karl
Yes done the states. Usualmtourist rat runs
Florida
California
New York
Washington
Hoping to do the Florida keys this year but I think I should avoid the hurricane season
I think everyone here is either asleep or a voyeur or we are just plain boring, ha ha
I have responded to you both in a private message but if you are anything like me, you haven't seen it or found it! You both sound like the kind of people I am looking for, sociable, independent and not looking for a date. I feel my life is ebbing away and I am not getting out there and doing the things I want to. Maybe you have looked at my profile and discounted me as a potention travel companion, I can't tell because I haven't hand a response. I put my e-mail address on my profile because I know where to find that! I am not even sure which page I am on here and only just foud this by accident - one of the worst sites to navigate I have ever come across!
I was looking for the same thing. I don't have anyone to go on holiday with and I don't particularly want to go alone. Love travelling. Been to nice exotic places and local ones. I am looking for holidays in august October November and maybe even...... Christmas. Poor me eh
I think there was a Beau and there was Rhett Butler 🙂 thought it might be an allusion to them.
Yes I read. Mostly crime fiction or historical novels.
Like films - just about every genre except supernatural horrors!!! Have nightmares hahaha.
Love history and historical buildings - castles, abbeys, stately homes, museums.
Think positive and keep going. I take it from your post that you are hoping to return to employment and so I would say if you have yet to find a job, look out for temporary or charity work .. anything that keeps you active, motivated and will be viewed favourably by potential employers.
As you posted a little while ago, you may have already been successful in finding what you want. I certainly hope so and wish you lots of luck!
I had to sign in the job centre to protect my pay in lieu of notice but, to be honest, I am not going back there. I will take the financial hit. It is horrible going there. I am looking into setting up as a freelancer for work related related learning and safeguarding training. I don’t really want to as I am almost 63 and would rather be doing my old job but that has gone. At least if I am freelance I can kick and choose my days and times of working.
So basically I am feeling a bit low and hoping, like Gknelizi, to make new acquaintances and have different conversations,
Working as yourself as a free lancer may be hard at first and maybe even longer hours, but you are building something that is YOURS and I would rather work 18 hours a day for myself than 8 to make someone else rich and reach their dreams. Best of luck to you!
Still not sure what I am going to do, since redundancy in February I have occupied myself with applying for jobs, doing on line courses to keep myself up to date with safeguarding etc, and of the course the odd interview and finishing the renovations we started in November which, of course, we wouldn’t have started if we knew what was coming but if we are going to be hard up we might as well be hard up in nice surroundings! To be fair we won’t be broke but my income was quite big and we do not want to break into the redundancy money.
Just joined SIlver Surfers from sunny Tampa, Florida! I'll be 52 in a week, work as an armed security officer, was a certified personal trainer/Specialist in Senior Fitness, and a martial artist/instructor. After a work injury I had 2 rotator cuff surgeries, then a knee surgery and cannot do as much as I used to, but I am taking back my health, have lost 20+ pounds and came off of my blood pressure meds. Being 50+ means nothing. We can live active, full lives well into our later years if we choose to do something about it. Now my focus is blogging on senior fitness and helping men be all God created them to be.
Glad to be here!