April 20, 2021 in Columns, Opinion
Before I blast Hall & Oates on Spotify, I often get the same Postmates ad because I’m too lazy to get Spotify Premium. I never truly paid attention to the ad until I finally decided to cave into consumerism and see why it kept popping up.
The premise was simple, a subliminal messaging plot about getting pad thai, hidden underneath a stereotypical medication commercial (you know, the one where older people run around and do random activities while a piano plays softly in the background). After I decided that maybe pad thai was the move for dinner, I found my inner gerontologist stirred up by the portrayal of older adults in that 30 second commercial.
Last modified on Sun 21 Feb 2021 05.28 EST
Margaret Ford, 94, author
Itâs fair to say I didnât expect, aged 93, to become Britainâs oldest debut author. My story is just my life, really. It never crossed my mind that anyone else might care to know more.
Iâd been married to my husband, Jim, for 67 years when he did the dirty and died on me seven years ago. One day not soon after I started to look through this trunk full of 630 letters weâd sent to each other, reading them back to reminisce. There are a lot of them â at points during his army postings around the world he was sending me up to three a day.