Does anyone other than me sometimes feel invisible?
Why, in a crowded room, one is made at times made to feel invisible?
Maybe it’s with people you know or don’t know, it makes no difference.
You’re a V.O.G. and you can’t possibly have an opinion.
Oh!dear! I think I must have had a very bad VOG day yesterday when I wrote the above! All is well today and I have a lot of fun things to do with my son who is visiting from Germany.
Meet “The Zimmers” – a rock band of 40 OAP’s with more aggression than Nirvana and more style than The Who. Meet 99-year-old Winifred who is fed up in care homes, Joan who hasn’t left her tower block for three years, and lead singer 90-year-old Alf whose beloved bingo hall is being shut down.
Gets me around Europe, with easy on-line booking. The same cannot always be said for their promised compensation for delayed bags!
A little book of Jenny Joseph’s famous poem.
Warning – When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
By Jenny Joseph
When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we’ve no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people’s gardens
and learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
or only bread and pickles for a week
and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay our rent and not swear in the street
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
Buy the book from Amazon!
(This is my original V.O.G. message from 2007 that inspired this blog!)
COMPLAINTS, ALBEIT MINOR, FROM THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY:
