These are all great gadgets that make life much easier. We should all have had them years ago. The only annoying thing about them is losing them or letting them fall. So don’t let that happen – tie them down. 2) Say getting old is challenging – never apologise about it. If you sit clamped in your chair as if you were tied down and padlocked, that’s how people will see you. Instead keep reminding them that Paul Newman said, ‘Old age ain’t for sissies’. It’s cool to have Paul in your corner. 3) Demand to be heard on the excellent grounds that you have been around longer than other people and more just might have rubbed off on you from sheer longevity. 4) Tell outrageous, scurrilous and mainly imaginary stories about well-known people long dead and unable to deny it all. 5) Be eccentric. You’re allowed now. Wear the cowboy hat and the feather boa that you’ve ached to wear for decades but were afraid people would think you looked silly in. 6) Tell everyone you are ten years older than you are.
