The Fox comes out at 5’ 8" tall and 10 stone 7 lbs …BMI according to the chart…= 22.2
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Because of my science/technology/engineering background, I’ve got a foot (305mm 
) in both camps and can, more or less instantaneously, convert from one to t’other.
And a yard of ale?
I’ve just had a shock - I’ve just weighed myself, I’m wearing a track suit and had my brekkie a couple of hrs ago and weigh 8st with a full tum.
It wasn’t so long ago I was 8st 7lbs.
So I got the tape measure out and checked my height.
I used to be 5’5 and a bit.
I’m now 5.'3 and a bit 
I’ve always been around about the same size in inches but in weight I used to be 10st when younger, which never changed, and I was slim.
The only time I went over 10st was when I was 9mths pregnant and then I weighed in at 65kg at the hospital. I’ve just checked 65kg = 10st 3lbs.
I’m still slim, but a bit blobbier, and now 2st lighter.
I know it’s the osteoporosis but my bones must be empty now 
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Our joints and cartilage shrink as we age. I am was 6’ 6" and I’ve last a full inch over the years. My wife was 4’ 10" and through spinal surgery and new hips etc she is now 4’ 8+1/2" so as you can see , we all loose height one way or another; some more than others.
Oooh yes quite so LD… I know we all shrink, it was just the weight, or lack of it, that was a shock.
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I might be wrong, but I think we also tend to lose some weight as we age past a certain point in our lives. I have and my wife has too; nothing major, but a few pound as the years have past since retirement even though our food intake is about the same.
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The same happens during the course of a day, our joints, cartilage and particularly our spines all compress with the weight of our bodies and the effects of gravity. This is something I always noticed after working a night shift and getting in the car to drive home, the rear-view mirror always had to be adjusted from where it was for the drive into work the previous day.
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Crikey, I’m little enough as it is…I really don’t want to be smaller 
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But our ear’s continue to grow…
You know, that means a lot to me Baz. I frequently cannot understand why I have to adjust the mirror when I’ve never even been near it nor touched it.
I was figuring it was loose or the spiders and dust had moved it. Or at the very least I was losing my marbles . 
S’ok Pixie, we’ll be careful where we stand 
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And our chins 
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At this rate, I’ll end up a midget
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Yeah, still not really enamoured with the whole shrinking malarkey, guys…c’mon, all the best things come in small packages, etc etc? Yes?
Thanks! Smart Alec 
My name is not Bridget though…
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With a big chin and big ears apparently 
I don’t believe that…besides, by the time we get to that age of worrying about such things, society will have changed enough to adore little chinny people! 
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Ah, but if this clever Alec had found a song with your actual name tagged into it, that would put your name out right across the internet and I’m not like that, so there 
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Well, Bruce Forsyth appeared to have done alright out of being that way!
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