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As I am quickly approaching my 75th year, I had to chuckle at Danny Heitman’s definition of a “codger” (“Envy the Old Codger,” op-ed, June 6). I wander in public wearing clothing that my wife frowns ...

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Though I am not old yet, like many people in the throes of midlife, I am already worrying about it. Death, according to Hamlet, is ‘the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns’.

The trouble with old folks is that nowadays they no longer know their place. Used to be that when an alert and productive chap of 64 turned 65, he was instantly transformed into an old codger, lovable ...

In many ways, Ryan Tubridy is well on his way to making the transition from young fogey to old codger. He regularly complains about the supposed absurdities of political correctness in public ...

Best selling novelist Frederick Forsyth has accused the 'Stasi-like' Metropolitan Police of 'hounding an old codger' in indignant letter to the court after he was caught speeding. Mr Forsyth, 84, was ...

Greg Searle has reignited his Olympic flame and rows for the GB eight in today's World Cup in Munich (GETTY IMAGES) It was just before Christmas 2008, during a five-a-side kickabout at a local sports ...