Having recently turned 60 I was remembering

[7sisters]

Something like 'egg and bacon' in his moniker?

I've made it to 67 now though dodgy moment four years ago, three months in hospital followed by nine hours on the operating table. Endocarditis after an inconsequential cut to my leg while gardening, bacteria grew to a 2cm ball on my heart valve. Now have a carbon valve and a pile of meds to take every day. Otherwise fairly fit and healthy!

That?s a bit of a scare, PJ. Someone on the box recently referred to the decade between 60 & 70 as snipers alley. Seemed quite appropriate.

[Sir C]

Something like 'egg and bacon' in his moniker?

I've made it to 67 now though dodgy moment four years ago, three months in hospital followed by nine hours on the operating table. Endocarditis after an inconsequential cut to my leg while gardening, bacteria grew to a 2cm ball on my heart valve. Now have a carbon valve and a pile of meds to take every day. Otherwise fairly fit and healthy!

we pjl. No bacteria ball?s taking you down!

[Sir C]

62 and still here? just?

Do you feel like it?s about 4 days since you were 21? That bands like Nirvana are modern music?

[Sir C]

Good man - just a baby

You?re younger than me aren?t you la?

[Sir C]

Something like 'egg and bacon' in his moniker?

I've made it to 67 now though dodgy moment four years ago, three months in hospital followed by nine hours on the operating table. Endocarditis after an inconsequential cut to my leg while gardening, bacteria grew to a 2cm ball on my heart valve. Now have a carbon valve and a pile of meds to take every day. Otherwise fairly fit and healthy!

Was it egg and dart?

[7sisters]

Do you feel like it?s about 4 days since you were 21? That bands like Nirvana are modern music?

One minute you?re in the thick of the engine room, so to speak and then, before you know it you?re getting ushered towards the waiting room.
During a hospital visit a couple of years back, I witnessed a couple of confused elderly gents stumbling around the ward in large nappies.
I mean, is this really how it ends, SC

[7sisters]

Was it egg and dart?

Surely that?s some sort of rhyming slang ?

[Peter]

You?re younger than me aren?t you la?

I'm a fair bit younger than all of you but still ****ing old.

[Luis Anaconda]

You?re younger than me aren?t you la?

A mere stripling of 53 (feels like 80)


Genuinely thinking about retirement. Selling up property in the UK and just living off the profit in some cheap Asian island somewhere

[pjlincs]

Surely that?s some sort of rhyming slang ?

Ionic moulding. Egg = life. Dart = death. Appropriate for this thread!

Sir C is right in his recollection about the chap's name. Maybe he was a plasterer?