06-11-2012, 06:08 PM
Dale --Thank you old top. I regard the blurred vision, slurred speech, the onset of Falls, as in ''he had another fall you know'' , loss of vocabulary and reasoning power, all as Rites of Passage, just like those earlier Rites, like getting a driving licence, drinking, sex, completing education, work....and I embrace them all. 
Billy, old bean. Thank you too. You don't think my language is arch and old-fashioned, I hope?
PS I see in the cold light of morning, that my suggestion that my grand-son might live until 2213 was a little ambitious. Another Rite of Passage thing, but as I now have a lucid interval, I have edited 100 years of the poor chap's life. It was very decent of you not to point this out--as I should have, like lightning -- out of consideration for these white hairs, no doubt.
Billy, old bean. Thank you too. You don't think my language is arch and old-fashioned, I hope?
PS I see in the cold light of morning, that my suggestion that my grand-son might live until 2213 was a little ambitious. Another Rite of Passage thing, but as I now have a lucid interval, I have edited 100 years of the poor chap's life. It was very decent of you not to point this out--as I should have, like lightning -- out of consideration for these white hairs, no doubt.