Great Aunt Imelda said that twenty-year-old Harold would “never make old bones”. He was sickly and took no interest in living a healthy existence.
Well, how wrong can one be? That was seventy years ago. That would make Harold ninety; that is if he hadn’t died when he was forty-two. But his bones have certainly aged.
Weave a Web 
Shaking Stevens was onto something when he wrote: ‘Shake baby, shake, shake, shake
Till the meat falls off o’ your bones’
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I prefer to twist and shout.
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Harold showed them all.. well his bones did.
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That’s the bones of the story.
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Harold is still humerus
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He can hum along with any tune from the 50s and 60s.
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There’s hope for all of us.
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Hope springs eternal.
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someone needs to come up with a new quote regarding old bones…
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He’s long in the tooth?
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there you go… 🙂
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He would have made it past 42 if dear sweet Auntie Imelda hadn’t pushed him in front of that bus.
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Sweet Aunt Imelda was always a bit prophetic. She foretold his end.
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That is a confounding conundrum on ageing.
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We should make a list of idioms for old age.
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Guess he showed Imelda.
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Make no bones about it…
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