Decrepitude - not nice!

[tim]

Gaily offered the flooring chap help by lifting some 8'x2' sheets of Chipboard part way up a stair well.

Shamed - could only just get one off the floor!!

[tim]

[Deb P]

My OH is a carpenter and says you have nothing to be ashamed of.....chipboard is deceptively heavy!

I remember reading somewhere that a 65 year old man has the same strength as a 25 year old woman.............presumably that was before everyone went to the gym and female bodybuilders were commonplace!

[kenkew]

It wasn't too long ago I could manage all the pieces of a double wardobe up stairs and put the whole thing together alone including the mirrors. Last New Year I only just managed to get a single one upstairs and I bumped it on every step!
My left shoulder is still giving me problems!

[betula]

I know that feeling.Yesterday I went to move the wheelbarrow full of weeds etc from a new bed I am making and I could not shift it an inch.Ended up forking half of it out. ;D

[tim]

My chap got the 12 sheets up 2 long flights & laid in 3 hours.

[Froglegs]

A good reason to grow Spinach then Tim. ;)

[kenkew]

Shackle him to the shed for future use, Tim!!

[GrannieAnnie]

It wasn't too long ago I could manage all the pieces of a double wardobe up stairs and put the whole thing together alone including the mirrors. Last New Year I only just managed to get a single one upstairs and I bumped it on every step!
My left shoulder is still giving me problems!

Two years ago I was moving a ladder so the grandkids could measure a sunflower. The ladder grabbed suddenly at the turf, I felt a pop and knew I'd torn my rotator cuff. Half a year later had the surgery. I realized then old age has been knocking. The body is drying up. Well, it was a good run while it lasted.

[caroline7758]

Best get Bruce Forsyth round!

[ACE]

I bet he was glad when you got out of the way. I am often offered help which is offered with the best of intentions, but I always try to put them off, as they just get in the bloody way. I bet the delivery men think the same about me when they see what they think is an ancient old fogey offering help. Little do they know that they are dealing with somebody that has a black belt in origami.

[kenkew]

I have a 'FIL' here who has his hands sewn on the wrong wrists! Absolutely hopless but full of good intentions. When I decorated his front room he was for-ever laying hands on the paper to stop it curling.....I stopped him by continually pasting his hands!

[GrannieAnnie]

I bet he was glad when you got out of the way. I am often offered help which is offered with the best of intentions, but I always try to put them off, as they just get in the bloody way. I bet the delivery men think the same about me when they see what they think is an ancient old fogey offering help. Little do they know that they are dealing with somebody that has a black belt in origami.

:) :) :)