New Gransnet Movement – "Old Pride"

Oh! Is that coming up ? When? Why did no one tell me?
Stomps off muttering " no one ever tells me anything!"

Have you been asleep or out of the country, Galen ? There have been a lot of references to it? That is the excuse for all those photos of delicious-looking birthday cakes.

soop - I think I may have been in the George's snug, many moons ago !
Bags, I've found the site - it's great! Wonderful idea!

Follow us on Twitter too now, folks! @embraceage

(we haven't said much yet, but we will!)

Not wishing to be divisive between young and old in our reclamation of "old", we have started a photo album (and, in due course, we hope, a 'theme') Young and Old Together. If you have photos you think would fit there and are willing to share them, do let us know, on this thread or on the Facebook Page.

Stories, news articles, links to stuff, anything you think supports the idea of age and aging being something to celebrate and which discourages agism, please point us in the right direction so that we can include it on the page where possible.

We only need two more facebook "likes" on our page to get to fifty!

There are four of us posting stuff on there. Send messages if you find interesting and suitable things – articles, pictures, jokes – and one of us will get onto it asap.

Embrace Age is taking off, Bags ! Almost 50!

The GN Edinburgh Facebook page needs two more to get to thirty. Way behaind!

Behind. sorry.

Sorry I'm being a bit dim here and am yet not au fait with Facebook. What is the purpose of this new group? Is it to be a campaigning group?

I suppose it is a campaigning idea. The idea is to 'reclaim' the word "old" so that its negative connotations do not outweigh its positive ones. It is to give being old a good press.

I'm being even dimmer! What's wrong with 'Gransnet'? Mumsnet get lots of mentions in the media as does Gransnet HQ? We're newer so it takes time to get well known as a resource. Grandparents can be of many ages. I can't honestly see the point of having an offshoot and reinventing the wheel. Perhaps therefore this reclamation idea is just not for me

goldengirl I think the FB Embrace Age is seen by a far wider audience than GN. All my friends can see it if I share it and many are a lot younger than me!
It is not competing with GN. It is a different beast! Simply a positive offshoot promoting the fact that 'old' or being old should not be used / seen as a derogatory term!

We are hoping to have some connection on Gransnet quite soon. Exactly what depends on the Mysterious Beings at HQ, but they like Embrace Age and think it fits in well with Gransnet's ethos. We (the four EA page admins) think so too.

Bags...I've been away for a wee while...cannot seem to find the latest on Embrace Age. Where be it?

I've just had a look at GN on facebook. No one seems to say anything, except the administrators.

https://www.facebook.com/EmbraceAge?ref=hl That's the link, soop.

Not sure what you mean, jings??

I just meant that GN on facebook doesn't seem to be the most happening place.

Quite by the by really.

Dead straightforward, really.

But we like to tease.

You going to bed soon Geraldine?

Don't go yet. One of the links in "from the forums" doesn't work – the one to the religions thread. Haven't tried the others.

I like embrace age, but im tired 'and so to bed' said Zebedee.

Thanks, Bags...I'm pleased to report that I wended my way back to the forum.