The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Perdita on August 24, 2012, 01:04:38 pm
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Just want to say good bye as obviously I might die any minute of old age. We had a cup of tea with the neighbours this morning. Doug's mobile peeped and he just checked for message etc. the 12 year old daughter of the neighbour looked at him in amazment and said:!I am really impressed that you know how to deal with this - my grandmother has no idea how to do it." Thanks Issy!!!!!
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I feel old when I look at my wrinkles and old men make a pass at me :roflanim:
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you are only as old as you feel and when you stop feeling your old :roflanim:
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im feeling old, i turned 40 this year and i started going grey a year or two back, but instead of it being flecked all over, its patchy. my charming daughter informed me the other day that i looked like a fresian cow. thanks, thanks alot.
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Oh you're all babies :eyelashes:
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im feeling old, i turned 40 this year and i started going grey a year or two back, but instead of it being flecked all over, its patchy. my charming daughter informed me the other day that i looked like a fresian cow. thanks, thanks alot.
:roflanim: kids - you gotta love their 'honesty'
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I'm 36 but my eldest started secondary school this year, and thats enough to make me feel old!!!
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I am on my second resurrection ;D
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And I was told by a six year old grand-daughter when I wondered what she would look like as a teenager "Oh, don't worry Granny, you'll be dead by then. You're very old" Well, she may be right, I suppose :-\ :tired: :tired:
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I turn 40 this year too - not sure if I'm looking forward to it or dreading it.
Oh and now I find myself going to see Scouting for Girls with my kids in a fortnight, I think I'll feel VERY old that day ::)
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plums youll love it! because of my daughter ive now been to see ben howard, have tickets to see frank turner, and am going to glasto next year. as if i havent partied enough, ive now got to do it all over again. in a chaperone role. oh well. :excited:
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;D see you at Glastonbury next year then! :raining:
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really? how cool!! we'll have to hook up for a natter!
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Yep definitely! :thumbsup:
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plums youll love it! because of my daughter ive now been to see ben howard, have tickets to see frank turner, and am going to glasto next year. as if i havent partied enough, ive now got to do it all over again. in a chaperone role. oh well. :excited:
Sounds fab! We're going to see Tom McRae in November :). Do you know of Marcus Foster? He's one of my faves!
Gemma
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Don't know of Marcus Foster, no - will have to youtube and have a nose!
My 10 year old is grumphing about Scouting for Girls and wants to know why we aren't going to see the Libertines instead (mummy's musical tastes are a little different to many local mummies and milli has adopted it...) have been trying to explain it might not be a good place for a child of her age :innocent: [size=78%] [/size]
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ha, the only way ellie can go to frank turner is if shes accompanied by an adult, over 16's only!!
thanks for the reccomendations i shall pass them on. try 'passenger' my daughter wakes me up with him full blast most mornings,i ask her if she is interested in boys, and i just get 'shut up' 'your embarressing' when most of her music is young male troubadors...in fact she has an enviable 'record' collection 80+ albums on her ipod and counting, she has a budget and sticks to it, so far....
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I was just thinking this afternoon as I was pulling on my 'hoodie', while wearing my jeans, I wonder what people think of a 48 year old grey haired woman wearing teenage clothes.....
Mind you I am only 17 (in my head!) :innocent: :innocent:
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;D see you at Glastonbury next year then! :raining:
Glastonbury ::) Now Ifeel really old. I remember Glastonbury when it was a tiny hippy festival in the top field by the tor. Maybe a couple of hundred people there. Folk music, magic mushrooms (of which I did not partake) a bit of strange tobacco (of which I believe I did :o ) and a lovely time. I really wouldn'd want to go now though, too big, too loud and too many MM's etc.
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sylvia, id be honoured.... i have a spare ticket, and somewhere to stay (all being well...)
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My son turned 40 last week so what does that make me? ;D I've been grey since eh was born!
Problem is my brain doesn't agree with my body :'( My brain is only about 20 I think. I vaguely remember someone quoting the following phrase - "I don't want to go to my grave lying down, I'll go kicking and screaming" You're only as old as .......................... :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited:
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mum?? is it really you.... :o
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I was just thinking this afternoon as I was pulling on my 'hoodie', while wearing my jeans, I wonder what people think of a 48 year old grey haired woman wearing teenage clothes.....
Mind you I am only 17 (in my head!) :innocent: :innocent:
Being a bit short on cash - my shorts are cut off jeans that are now 4 sizes too big worn with boots that are not too sexy - and now I don't even change to go into town - hair in despareate need of a cut but do I care ........... no, still happy :excited: :excited:
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Well at 42 I'm often to be seen wearing ripped jeans that hang off my bum like a teenager - I've only got one belt and it's usually on my good (for work) jeans.
I realised I must be getting older a few years back, when I couldn't get back to my home due to the police having closed off the area (fire); I was chatting with a very nice WPC but had to resist the temptation to ask her:
"Shouldn't you be in school?"
:raining: :raining:
marcus
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sylvia, id be honoured.... i have a spare ticket, and somewhere to stay (all being well...)
Dave, I am tempted, but who'd care for the dogs etc. Also, I'm sure you can tempt a pretty young thing to join you. Shall I make enquiries? ;)
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;D please do, you couldnt do any worse than i am!! ;)
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I look in the mirror and wonder if I should behave as old and sensible as I look - but usually decide against it :D
As for kids making you feel old.....When I was a youngish teacher (30) a kid came to the staffroom door asking for her biology teacher, whose name she couldn't remember.
So I thought about the 5 female biology staff and decided that I was roughly in the middle, age-wise. So I asked 'is she older or younger than me'. The child thought very long and hard and said 'I think she's older'. Eventually turned out to be Pauline, who was 56 at the time, and a grey, dumpy 56 at that ::) Well, it made her feel better anyway :D
At the same school, one of my form class commented that they'd seen me at the Strawberry Fair in Cambridge, holding hands with my then boyfriend. And another girl said 'I think it's really cute when old people go out (ie date)' :D
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I'm 67 and a bloke, but still love this poem.
WHEN I AM AN OLD WOMAN I SHALL WEAR PURPLE
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
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Saw my mum and her boyfriend this week. When we said goodbye, I gave him a hug and teased him that he liked cuddling young ladies. My OH says, "You're not young." (I'll deal with him later - I'm only 61) to which I reply, "Compared to Doug I am." My mum's boyfriend is almost 91.
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Castle Farm ... I love that poem, and actually quoted to my menfolk last night (the bits I can remember!) in response to an "ageist" conversation!
(I am determined to Literate them, I read from "Animal Farm" "Cold Comfort Farm" poems, newspapers etc out to them ... to no real avail!)
::)
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MGM - good on your mum & Doug :)
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MGM - good on your mum & Doug :)
Thanks. She's 82. I refer to him as her bit on the side. ;D ;D He is a bit of a flirt though. Should have seen him chatting my friends up at my 60th birthday party. Mind you, he was only 89 then. ;D ;D ;D
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I feel REALLY old when I lust over Paul Nicholls on the telly and think "Oooh I'd give him one", then I catch sight of myself in the mirror and get a huge reality check! Even 20 years younger I'd still be too old for him >:(
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Mary, just carry on lusting but don't look in the mirror. ;D
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And anyway, all cats are grey in the dark ;)