Thanks Gordon B.........

[J.R.]

Our illustrious PM and leader has come up with another sure-fire vote winner !

He says that British subjects have the right to decide where they will die. (BBC lunch-time news.)

I'm opting for Barbados, but after a couple of years aclimatisation first !

[midget]

But how will you know it's time to get on the plane? Do you thonk we will be able to try out various places first?

[sejintenej]

But how will you know it's time to get on the plane? Do you thonk we will be able to try out various places first?

As you should have learned at CH our allotted lifespan is three score years and ten. Take off his 5 years acclimatisation and you get to 65; dead easy really.

If he doesn't get to the pearly gates on time then Gordon hasn't been doing his job properly and will have to pay for his failure.

[jhopgood]

But how will you know it's time to get on the plane? Do you think we will be able to try out various places first?

As you should have learned at CH our allotted lifespan is three score years and ten. Take off his 5 years acclimatisation and you get to 65; dead easy really.

As someone who reads all of the obits that go in the Old Blue, I get the impression that Old Blues have a longer lifespan than most. I think some university did a study of us a few years ago and came to a similar conclusion.
But I agree on the 65, it just gives us longer to try out various retirement venues.

[J.R.]

But how will you know it's time to get on the plane? Do you think we will be able to try out various places first?

As you should have learned at CH our allotted lifespan is three score years and ten. Take off his 5 years acclimatisation and you get to 65; dead easy really.

As someone who reads all of the obits that go in the Old Blue, I get the impression that Old Blues have a longer lifespan than most. I think some university did a study of us a few years ago and came to a similar conclusion.
But I agree on the 65, it just gives us longer to try out various retirement venues.

Bristol, John. They contacted me: God knows how, as I'd moved twice since leaving school without contacting them.

I didn't take part in the survey. Being adopted and having looked at the masses of quetions, a lot of it was to do with hereditary.

[midget]

But how will you know it's time to get on the plane? Do you thonk we will be able to try out various places first?

As you should have learned at CH our allotted lifespan is three score years and ten. Take off his 5 years acclimatisation and you get to 65; dead easy really.

If he doesn't get to the pearly gates on time then Gordon hasn't been doing his job properly and will have to pay for his failure.

Three score years and ten? I'd better get thatmround the world trip organised, I'm on borrowed time already!

[sejintenej]

Bristol, John. They contacted me: God knows how, as I'd moved twice since leaving school without contacting them..

Having got your school medical records and/or a copy of your adoption certificate then it was a simple case of the NHS looking up where the holder of that NHS card is registered as living.
(Your wartime ID card number shown on your ration card which you gave to the school was the same as your birth / adoption certificate number and became your NHS number. They did not change your birth certificate number when you were adopted; I have copies of both in my case)

I didn't take part in the survey. Being adopted and having looked at the masses of quetions, a lot of it was to do with hereditary.

Which seems strange. My understanding was that heredity was/is modified by living conditions (such as poor food or lack of access to medical practice to poor environmental conditions (such as smog). Being from the poorer end of society it was therefore to be expected that our background conditions and the effects on our parents / grandparents would have been especially negative so we could not be compared with the rich kids.

AFAIR some of the heredity questions were a bit naieve (who do you spell that ? - I don't have an English dictionary here) when JR and my generation's parents were directly affected by the War etc. For example, if they ask "how did your mother die" I would (and probably did) answer "heart attack" but there was nowhere where it could be expanded to post-operative DVT which puts a very different slant on the matter.

Answering another post, yes, the results did point to us having a projected life span longer than the average but I wonder how much youthful enforced exercise affected that.

[J.R.]

Just to clear up the point of adoption, and therefore my reluctance to take part in the survey......

At the continued request of both our daughters, I eventually decided to become a cop again and do some research for them, though it didn't mean that much to me, but that's another story.

I traced my birth-mothers name and address and, therefore my original birth certificate. Needless to say, 'Fathers Name' was blank, so now I can grin openly when my footy friends, banteringly call me a b@stard !

My mother was resident at my time of birth, in married accomodation at army barracks on the Surrey/Hampshire border. Jan has done a hell of a lot of digging, but my birth mother seems to have dissappeared not long after my birth.

C'est la vie, as they say !