Thanks everyone and yes tinnitus as well as all the other many and varied problems associated with getting older, is wonderful thing isn't it? Although always a much more preferable option than the alternative I suppose.
My mother refers to these types of ageing things as Decripititus, which is quite an amusing term. In fact she's quite good at making up strange sounding words such as this and that actually seem to mean something.
So yes, as we age, we all begin to get Decripititus according to my mom
Dave