Welcome oldfolkie,
Good choice of bike and glad you decided, like myself, to keep on riding. After all age is only in the head! Nothing says we have to conform to the stereotypical pensioner image! The FZS 600 is a fantastic bike-does so many different things well.
You live in a great part of the world-I am in Brum & my bike "knows" the best escape routes to my favourite riding roads-Worcestershire, Wales,Shropshire. Post a pic of your bike-would it perchance one of the faster RED ones?
Are you going to the Llangollen Bikefest 23rd/24th July?