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The Virginia Monologues: Why Growing Old is Great

by Virginia Ironside - £7.99  Penguin Books Ltd (2010)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780141043715 | ISBN 10: 0141043717

When she started to clock up the years in earnest, everyone looked away and tried not to mention it. But now Virginia Ironside is actually sixty - well, sixty-five if she's honest - she's can't see what all the fuss was about. She's thrilled to be old.
 
Growing ancient is not a loss but a gain. You're more confident, and if your memory's going, at least you forget the bad times, like all those ghastly men you slept with in the other sixties. And isn't now the time to take lots of drugs, not just all the ones you've been prescribed by the doctor (which are, now you're old, completely free)?
 
There's nothing more fun than comparing your various ailments with other oldies ('I take so many fish oils I'm thinking of joining an aquarium'), plus indulging in new oldie pursuits, from curtain-twitching to picking up litter with a litter-stick, researching one's past or (Virginia's preference) just mooching about.
 
From Funerals ('So much more fun than weddings') to Grandchildren ('The reward for not killing your children') to the White Slave Trade ('No longer a threat'), from Being a Bore ('You're in your anecdotage, so nobody can complain') to Sex ('I don't know about you, but I've had enough sex to last me a lifetime'), Virginia Ironside tackles all the issues that face today's elegant and distinguished oldies with optimism and enthusiasm - and makes you want to cheer!

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