I am getting shorter - how about you.

6' 6" , 5' 10" , 5' 4" ....

Now I know where Natures' supply of tallness went....

I was all of 5' 2" . I think I'm now nearer 5' 1". Much shorter and the preserved railway will be using me as a permanent-way gauge!

Even so, it's strange how it's much further up than it was down having been grovelling on the floor in my very cramped den to work on my miniature steam-wagon (isn't there a thread elsewhere on this Forum about how awkward vehicles can be? )

Having had both knees replaced doesn't help as they won't bend past about 95º and are painful to kneel on - though because I can't lean back on them slightly, as one would normally do for balance, if I try kneeling as in prayer I topple forwards onto my face.

I can still drive my club's 7.25" g loco from its normal driving-truck, but I think a 5" g one on ground-level would be impossible.

I've to think how I am going to drive this wagon if a) I ever finish it, and b) it works. I have experimented, using a small folding step on a board across the chassis, to see if and where I fit the thing.

It's awkward underground too, in caving, as footholds and ladder-rungs all seem to be just slightly more than one knee-bend step apart!:

Our family have all been tall

35 years ago they buried my 80 year old grandmother. She was 6ft tall & to her parting days stood ramrod straight, Shoulders back. She was a real battle horse & would accept b.. s..t from no one. My father said that her 4 kids got a good hiding most days, but if anyone touched them, they had better look out. I still can picture her standing over a blue/grey enamelled 4 burner gas stove with a Woodbine stuck to her top lip, coughing while she cooked.

At her funeral the coffin was being lowered into the hole & it had not been dug long enough. The 4 pall bearers looked at each other & began to waggle the box up & down each end so it wore the earth away.

We were all seriously sad at the loss of a much loved lady when my cousin said, quite loudly " just like her, won't even go in her grave without a fight" upon which 30 people went from crying to laughing. I cannot recall a funeral where the coffin was lowered in the ground to sounds of laughter.

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 10/02/2022 13:08:33

Here's something, as you get older your ears get longer and bigger!

Cartilage keeps growing.

My hair has migrated from my head to my ears and eyebrows, not too worried about losing my hair but appearing at new sites I could do without.

Mike

But as I pointed out to one of the bald headed directors at a company I was contracting to, ( Infront of all his office staff) after he made sarky comment to me.

"At least it has to be easier to wash your head with Mr Muscle & a J cloth".

He was not amused when he heard some sniggering from heads suitably lowered behind computer screens.

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 10/02/2022 15:35:41