How we got to 90

The BBC is good at articles like this one...

An interesting website

This just turned up in my in-box, via the WEETU newsletter (a local women's business enterprise network): In My Prime - For Mature People Re-Thinking Their Lives. Looks as though it could be worth a browse!

Aunt Ada Doom, eat your heart out

And again, many thanks to Pat for this one. The image is fairly large, so if you don't want to click on it, here's the text:

Evelyn Warburton rode to her 100th birthday party in a motorcycle sidecar Saturday in Berwick, PA. Warburton, who actually turned 100 on Thursday, suited up in motorcycle gear for the 10-minute ride from her home in Lightstreet to her granddaughter's house in Berwick. "It was fun today," she said. Her chauffeur on the green 2000 Harley-Davidson Ultra was George Crawford, a friend who has offered to take her to church on this motorcycle for several years.

Cruise ship retirement

I received this fabulous story as a powerpoint slideshow (courtesy of Malcolm & Sue, I might add), but you'll get the general gist by following this link to the excellent Snopes Urban Legend site...

Rappin' Granny

You go, girl...

Jack LaLanne

Pat in America is finding me some great inspiration for this site. Meet Jack LaLanne, who at nearly 93 is still working out, and could pass for many years younger. Visit the Washington Post website for a video of an interview with this irrepressible man (who frequently serenades his wife Elaine), and some fabulous photographs of his years as a fitness guru.

Comments I particularly relish include:

• "Ninety-three years young, and I still keep my wife smiling occasionally..."
• "You want to feel better, look better, live longer?.. you've got to earn the right to it."
• "Do something for the most important person on this earth. You."
  
• One of the first people to advocate avoiding processed foods, LaLanne is known to say,"If man made it, don't eat it."
• Considered one of the first modern health evangelists, LaLanne... likes to say "Billy Graham is for the hereafter, I'm for the here and now."
• LaLanne began advocating weight training in the 1930s even though doctors at the time thought the new practice would give people heart attacks and lower their sex drives. Science has since proved LaLanne was right.

There's also some interesting data about him on Wikipedia.

Forgetting to get older

I just had a great parcel from my friend Pat in America, who, much to my delight, takes inspiration from this blog and my Rector's Wife Revamp blog. We had a discussion a few weeks back on the "too old to run" theme, and yesterday I received a parcel including this newscutting (click on it for a closer look):



My favourite phrase is "I forgot to get older". That's one bit of absent-mindedness we could all use.

A bit of googling produces Fan's website, and dozens of other press references to her achievements. What an excellent lady. Thanks loads, Pat.