Patina has always represented a surface condition of metal to me. I do have a green ring around the left wrist from the copper/brass arthritis bracelet, but I am beginning to pit and seize up occasionally.
It hasn't happened for a while, so I'm about due for my right knee to make a noise like a pistol shot. It's painless, only happens once, and then nothing for many months. The discs have been quiet for a while as well.
Steve, Guess this has turned into an old man medical thread. Torn meniscus for several decades but now has involved the bursa on the inside and just below the knee. Constant swelling and stiffness. Get to "crawl" up the stairs like some of you real old guys. But like Lud, the discs are holding up rather well in the old back.
I do my own version of Superman. I am faster than an unfired bullet, walk round tall buildings and say "look at the choo choo".
By the way, I'm aay again for a week. I am being dragged off to Mablethorpe to have an operation of sorts. The will to live will be extracted. It's a seaside town, with the cultural depth of Chinese chrome and precious little good booze.
I live next to a sea side town with the same endearing qualities. That's one of the reasons I enjoy Bike Camp so much. It's an all to brief respite from the ordinary.
The good time was there, but little peace and tranquillity. Musically the level rises, and it was hard work trying to live on the same plane as some of them; it brings you forward, improves you, but sort of terrifying as well.