Who's the youngest and the oldest D-i-Yer on here?

The exclamation mark on the OP's declared age makes him the youngest.

Define illness. a year ago (actually 15 months) I was diagnosed with kidney failure. symptoms seem similar>

Well take your pick from a medication that puts fluid in your lungs, kidney disease, ischaemic heart disease, asthma, COPD, leukemia, and tree pollen.

My GP bless her heart seems totally out of her depth.

BUT 10 years ago all I had was angina. I could walk the dogs miles every day.,

Within 4 weeks from diagnosis, and medication I couldn't do 50 yards. and it got worse and worse.

I've got an oximeter clamped on my finger full time. Ive seen oxygen levels down at a scary 70%.

But if my lungs are clear its way better. Usually in the 90% range or more

Right bow its at 86%

Then it jumped to 91

I was in my 30's when I started posting here... does that count?

now 58... still doing plenty of DIY - it just aches more after!

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I'm 75 . The last bit of DIY I did was about 2 hours ago, when I had to replace the claw rake handle which broke as I was doing the garden Found suitable length of dowel in the woodpile . 15 min job.

Brian

Didn't someone in the Portable Air Conditioners thread recently say they were over 80?

I was born in 1971 so that would be under Sir Edward Heath.

Thatcher was 1979 to 1990 so you're between 36 and 47

So you're the youngest so far!

Yes I am really 54! I remember compuserve, BBSes and when teh sony walkman came out....

And I know what the connection is between a audio cassette and a pencil!

Anyway, theres Theo who was born during the Thatcher years so he's definitely younger than me!

Stephen.

Several people in this thread have already said they are eighty or over. I would tell you how many but I lost count on the way down the list. It's my age, you know :-(

Nick

Well, here's another one. I'll be 84 in just over a week, and I'm still doing quite a lot of DIY including woodwork, plumbing and electrical work.

I realised a few years ago that wearing my rubber-coated gardening / builders' gloves (1.99 in Aldi when they've got them in) improved my grip strength an awful lot. I wear them for most jobs now, and only take them off (when working!) when I need to get out my Swiss Army knife.

AJ (78) ("middle aged" accordinng to this survey!)

PS I always thought John Rumm (Founder of

(See? 78. Drivels on for ages!)

And here am I, on my third monarch...

JFTR I was (almost) born in an Anderson shelter.

Two hours later a bomb destroyed a house across the road.

are we talking 1st world war or the 2nd world war?

QE 2 came to the throne in 1952 so that makes you at least 74....

Me too

And me, but I don't remember the first.

A WW1 Anderson Shelter would have been a time-traveller!