OMG, am mortified/horrified and shocked...........

I dithered over some white Geraniums from Aldi earlier today and am now grumpy because I didn't buy any!

Lidl have them for £1.99 and last year I found their plants to be the best I bought, including a hydrangea!

Your ears still work fine so therefore you can't possibly be old

And quoting the great Bet Lynch puts you in a special category anyway! 😀

Of course you're old. You're 63. I'm 43 and I'm definitely middle aged and getting on. I think you're a bit delusional if you think you're not old. Better than being dead though.

I met the new neighbour and told DH she was quite old - turns out she is a year younger than me……

Good grief, I am 63 next birthday. I am not old. I have a friend same age, and she did tell me she thought I was too old for the gym. She may well be, but I sure as heck am not! (Admittedly, my knees do look old )
I appreciate there are more years behind me than ahead of me, but I am not in my dotage yet 😱

When my sister moved in with her boyfriend years ago my mum asked her about her neighbours. My sister said there's an old couple who live next door to us. My mum said how old. Sister became very flustered and said eventually your age.
Mum was 57 at the time! My sister is 50 this year and has now decided 57 isn't old at all!

I’m 43, and all this wool and geraniums talk has me worried. Am I allowed them at my age?!

Take a job in a community pharmacy.

Our customer demographic is mostly 70 and up. At 58, I am called "young lady" at least twice a shift... and my "favourite" gentleman (94) flirts outrageously and calls me a "lovely young lady"

I, too, am strategically as old as I choose to be. Sometimes it helps to be "too old for" something you don't want to do but can't think of a good excuse to avoid. Mid 60s and my skin has only just started to decide it's not going to bother to stay peachy without a lot of help, darn it. It's a source of amusement when someone tries to insult me by telling me I must be "nearly 60". Let's not talk about the Tena thing, thank heavens they exist is all I can say. Sadly I never learned to crochet, but used to be quite keen on knitting and even won a prize for it in my 30s; just recently I gave all the wool and stuff away to a charity because I'm too lazy my eyesight isn't what it was. So I guess that makes me old.

Talking to cats though, why wouldn't you?

63 is pretty old. If the average life expectancy is 83 then at 63 you are in your last stage of natural life. We will all get there if we are lucky. Don't be offended.

Yes, but I think that happened in my late 30s (those wistful days of yore!)

Either way, your post made me laugh and I actually want to be your friend 😂

I'm about to turn 40 and one of my closest friends is 56. I agree with you op, age is a number and you're as old as you feel 😅

On the buying plants alone, definitely not old. Gardening has become quite popular. A lot of people in their 20s and 30s are into it from what I’ve seen on SM, especially growing own food and planting for pollinators.

MIL frequently tells us how all the 'young people' might not like a particular restaurant or shop. MIL is in her 80s and the 'young people' she means is DH and his siblings, all in their 50s.

Oh no! I got a couple of hydrangeas last year and am pondering over geraniums.
I'm 53. Maybe I should wait a decade or two?

My mum used to talk about the old girl next door. My mum was 80 and I suspect the the old girl was younger. We often don't feel our age, but possibly look it, to others at least.

I was looking at a dress in the window of Bonne Marche thinking Oh that's nice
My Mum used to buy clothes there .
I am nearly 58 so getting swiftly to "Old Age Territory"

I remember going next door and asking the young door opener if he parents were in. She lived there with her boyfriend and daughter! In my defence she was actually 19, and when we had family over a few days later I saw her outside and asked them how old they thought she was. MIL thought 16, FIL also 16, BIL thought 14. She still does have a baby face but thankfully never held it against me 😅

I’m 46 and could be your twin, down to singing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I have been telling people how pleased I am my peony made it through the winter

I don’t have a box room and wouldn’t stuff it with wool if I did. Neither do I know that song, and my pubic hair is in good shape.
The other things I’ve been doing for decades (I’m 70). We all get old.

@ByUmberViewer I don’t think 63 is old and I’m 38! 83 is old

I'll never forget my brother who had to go round to the mother of a friend of our mother
They where chatting in the doorstep,when his them girlfriend rang him
'Hang on a minute Eve,ill phone you back,I'm just chatting to an old lady'
She belted him with her walking stick-'im NOT an old lady!I'm 93 and that's not old!'
She then rang my mother so she could tell him off too!
My brother was in his 20's and was suitability told off for calling a 93 year old 'an old lady!'
She died 18 or so months larer and I'll always remember her fondly

I'm still officially in my 40s and a man called around a few weeks ago to measure carpets. We were discussing colours when he 'stated' that 'all the young people, a lot younger than me and you, like grey'. He was in his 60s at least and I was 'affronted' :)