First Blog. First entry!

There appear to be many young people – and middle aged people – using blogs, but not many pensioners. So here goes.

Being a pensioner is not a great deal of fun. Mostly you are dismissed as ‘past it’. Having no brain, living in the dark ages, not moving with the times, unable to grasp technology, work the video, understand teenagers.

This is all far from the truth. I must admit some technology is more difficult as you get older (but it is also difficult for some young people), especially as it seems to advance day by day. For example, today I hear that we will soon be able to contact our fridge on the way home from work and ask it what shopping it needs! Well, I have to say I think this is ridiculous. What are we doing to our brains when we can’t shop without asking permission from our fridge?! This is heading for all of us becoming robots.

Already we rely too much on machines. With the economic climate and the credit crunch, how would young people cope with doing washing by hand, going without heating, turning off lights, doing away with convenience foods, no take-aways or new clothes on special occasions? These are things pensioners grew up with and are able to cope with now.

Things are getting tight and pensioners will be able to adjust more easily to the cutbacks that have to be made.

I have an electric card meter in my house to avoid getting a big bill every quarter. It makes you more conscious of how much electricity you are using. However, I think it grossly unfair that because you have a meter your electricity costs more. The cost is due to go up on 1st October, but we are told card holders will get a letter on 24th September with a new number. This will increase your costs. However, this is the 25th September and no letter yet. Apparently these were posted out on 16th September? What I would like to know is if you have to buy another card before 1st October, will you pay the increase immediately?

Think I’ve grumbled enough for today.