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[Lesley]

....... you wear wellies in town (when the weather is vile I hasten to add!)

 

I used to stagger about in slush and snow - my mother said when I was grown up I'd be sensible and wear wellies - now I'd wear my pink Crocs wellies anywhere

Edited June 28, 2007 by Guest

[Lesley]

Egluntine posted.........

 

You know you are getting old when your fav teenage songs make it on there (Radio 2)on a reguler basis.

Kev.

 

You know you are getting old when you see a top in the Damart window and you find yourself thinking "Oooh.....that's quite nice"

Edited June 22, 2007 by Guest

[Egluntyne]

You know you are getting old when......You watch Coronation Street and you think " Deirdre's hair looks nice"

[Lesley]

[Laura & CTB]

................you look forward to going to bed at 10 o'clock instead of begging to stay up 'til 12

[Cate in NZ]

....... you wear wellies in town (when the weather is vile I hasten to add!)

 

I used to stagger about in slush and snow - my mother said when I was grown up I'd be sensible and wear wellies - now I'd wear my pink Crocs wellies anywhere

 

No Lesley, I'd edit that to say you know you're getting old when you forget what you've got on your feet altogether and wear slippers for a pub lunch Not me I hasten to add, but MIL a couple of weeks ago. We took her to a lovely pub for a lunch to celebrate her birthday and all the time she was wearing these pink fluffy things . Very smart from the ankles up though

[The Dogmother]

................you look forward to going to bed at 10 o'clock instead of begging to stay up 'til 12

 

10?! I'm ecstatic if I can get to bed at 9pm Not that it ever happens. Nearly wore my wellies to work this morning (shoes in a bag I hasten to add) as it was doing that stair-rod thing here first thing.

[Helly Welly]

I wore my new, patterned wellies this morning to take Abi to school. I had leggings on so i didn't look too old and i was a damn sight drier than the other Mums who NEVER dress for the weather. Mind you, they all come in their cars anyway

[The Dogmother]

The rain slacked off a bit, so compromised with my biker boots - legs hot now!

[bronze]

When you say 'this isn't music, its just noise with a beat'

[beach chick]

wellies in town - check.

radio 2 - check.

'not music but noise with a beat' - check.

bed at 9 - check.

Deirdre's hair - check. (have to qualify that one, think what it was like before!)

 

I would have to add:

- always taking a cardi coz you never know what the weather's going to do.

- preferring to watch any big event (music, sport whatever) on TV coz of the crowds.

- saying to your children "we never had.... (add anything of your choice) when I was young"

 

ps, I'm 'only' 46!

[The Dogmother]

I do all of those above beach chick and I'm two years younger than you...

 

Oh, and warm woolly socks indoors in the winter, and saying things like 'if you're cold, chuck another log on the fire or put on a cardi'

[beach chick]

or, "if you're cold why don't you go and run around? that'll soon warm you up"!!!

[The Dogmother]

Gosh, I remember that one!

 

The old house my folks had in Norfolk didn't have any heating, so my parents used that a lot, oh, and dressing in front of the electric fire in the morning.

[beach chick]

tell you one thing that has got better though - WARM bathrooms!!!! do you remember what it used to be like in those big old houses, where there was never enough hot water, and you froze as soon as you got undressed, froze while you were in the bath, and came out blue and shivering??!

[The Dogmother]

Certainly do! I must admit to loving a warm bathroom

 

Bedsocks! Another thing I love in the winter; I like my bedroom to be cool and my bed to be warm.

[Charlottechicken]

tell you one thing that has got better though - WARM bathrooms!!!! do you remember what it used to be like in those big old houses, where there was never enough hot water, and you froze as soon as you got undressed, froze while you were in the bath, and came out blue and shivering??!

 

You know you are getting old when.....you know who Jack Frost is!

 

With double glazing and central heating children today will never experience the icy patterns decorating the windows in the winter, sometimes on the inside

[The Dogmother]

Gosh, that brings back memories Claire - I remember looking at the frost patterns on the inside of my bedroom windows... and the milk freezing and rising up out of the bottle *goes all misty eyed*

 

I remember go-karting down the hill, no H&S warnings, just tough luck if we came off and hurt ourselves, making tree swings out of a rope and an old tyre, collecting toads (why?), baiting hooks and the maggots escaping all over the kitchen floor one night

[Olly]

ok, hands up who remembers LINO! not warm cosy cushionfloor stuff, chilly freezing lino. You used to hop out of bed and fish for your slippers before daring to put a foot down!

 

I do remember (only if we were ill, probably) having a real fire in the bedroom, and lying in bed watching firelight on the ceiling.

[The Dogmother]

Gosh Olly, I remember both of those too Olly

 

Did you live in a cardboard box in the road too????? I love reminiscing though. My grampies (italian ones) used to tell lovely stories about the war, the bombs going overhead, digging for victory (they always had livestock and loads of veggies) WI serving soup during air raids.

Phil's dad is German, and was a prisoner of war on a lovely farm over here, which is where he met Jean. He remembers being torpedoed as an engineer in the german navy. They still live a quite old fashioned and simple life on the farm.

[BeckyBoo]

you know when you're getting old, when you can't get in or out of an armchair, or sofa, without making that sort of "ooof" grunting noise. When everything in the charts is either a remake of or has a sample from something you remember the first time around. When your children don't believe you when you say you had no mobile phone, no computers, no DVD's or CD's, you remember only three TV channels. And were we worse off? Not at ALL!!

 

Mrs Bertie

[The Dogmother]

... your knees pop when you kneel down

[BeckyBoo]

and once you're down you can't get up again without help!

And I'm only 38 (feel about 380!)

[beach chick]

my knees have been clicky since I was about 12... and my hands now look exactly like my mother's, with arthriticky knuckles and the fingers starting to veer off to the left and right (depending on the hand). not to mention the fact that I've been dyeing my hair for about 20 years!!

[The Dogmother]

We'd get on well then beach chick! I have double jointed thumbs, which were going arthritic a few years ago; a magnetic bracelet has cured that. My knees click after teaching aerobics for 5 years solid 20 years ago. My hair is probably as grey as Lesley's Carl under all the colour