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

Did they catch you using the Merlin bird app

Same.

Post of the day, absolute class!
Nearly wet myself laughing (My Tena lady would have caught it) 🤣

Except for the crocheted bed jacket (can’t crochet) I ticked several of those on your list, inc. vast stash of yarn (knitting) and getting a wee bit leaky now and then.

I’m a fair bit older than you, and now have to accept that I’m seen as ‘old’ (despite never having gone grey - lucky genes) - Gdd1 very kindly told me that I’ve got wrinkles because I’m so old now, and people do quite often offer me the ‘wrinkly’ seats on the bus. I nearly always decline, with very polite thanks!

Also, while we were on the top,of a bus passing the local crem/cemetery not long ago, Gdd1 wondered why there were cars parked there.

I explained that there was probably a funeral going on, plus, people often like to go and put flowers on the grave of someone they loved.

‘I’ll do that for you, Granny!’
‘Thank you, darling.’ 😩😍

Hey! I love geraniums and hydrangeas and I'm in my twenties 🤣

My mum is 71 and often talks about "the old ladies" at her club. Obviously she's not old but the 75+ ladies are.

I never used to know what they meant by that . I thought maybe they were starting the job younger .But these days ..

I’m definitely old and heading for being decrepit at 70.
i have had a number of years perfecting where you’re at OP and the best thing is I don’t give a toss what others think!
I’m just glad to have got to three score years and ten 🙏

I'm only 39, still go to gigs and so on and have a wide age range of friends from early 20s to 60s.

It has come out that some of the younger ones think I WANT to mother them - like I want to be in a motherly role?? I'm 39 and happily child free, I do not want a 25 year old assuming I'll cook for them or look after them in any way!

During COVID when we were limited as to what we could do DH (40) and I gave a lift home to a friend (it was an emergency, DV situation) and were pulled over in Wales due to the COVID travel rules. Our friend told the police she was our daughter. She's 8 years younger than us!!!

So I do feel your pain but most of your hobbies are quite...old. Maybe get yourself to a punk gig or rave, there'll be plenty others your age there!

Do police officer and doctors all look younger than you? That's when I knew I was old.

to be fair I have to think how old I am before I say it most of the time, especially shortly after a birthday. I spent the entirety of being 35 saying I was 36, only to discover a few weeks before my birthday that I was wrong 😅 So I got to be 36 again...in my head at least.

Enjoyed your light hearted thread 😁
Depends on how old the neighbours are. If they are early/mid 20s, 63 is old. My adult son’s grandmother is late 50s, so he would definitely say 63 is old 🤣
At least they said you were a nice old lady, and not a crazy old lady 🤣

Your previous post would suggest differently. This is a lighthearted thread.

My neighbours are your age, both retired and have a few grandkids. Yes sorry I think of them as old. I don’t think that’s negative.

She's got to the age where there's a statistical margin of error when you try to remember how old you are. I have this and I'm 48 (I think ☺️).

Yes but OP you have missed the crucial bit - apparently you're also "nice"! Which is, well, lovely and promising for neighbourly relations - but a bit anodyne. Maybe in the next few months you need to make clear that there's more to you than nice (and old 🤣)

Your post was funny but also spoke to me on a meaningful level because I'm feeling a bit conscious of getting older. I always had people who found me vital and attractive (in my own way - an acquired taste but alluring to a certain minority, which was A-OK by me). Now I'm wondering if I was more reliant on that social approval than I realised?? What am I now? I've never been super hot but I liked my little hot corner?

Lol, I am writing this in my dressing gown lying in bed. I promise I am "chill" 😂

I am gonna by honest.....20-30yrs ago 63 WAS definitely old.
My Nanna had a short grey perm, and would have been described as an OAP at 60

I get my geraniums for free from the local park when they change the seasonal bedding, but I am currently feeling sad that the hydrangea that I bought last year appears not to have survived the winter.

I am 45.

Chill..........

It's a rocket ship that NASA use. 🙄

Me too. It’s just a number rather than a state of mind - my exH regarded himself as old when we got married - he was mid 30s at the time

I think yabu, it's fair enough to describe a 63 year old as old! I say this as a 38 year old! What's wrong with being old anyway?! Alot of people aren't lucky enough to make it that far!

Like with the talking to the cat thing, I have also loved flowers - (including geraniums!) since we got a house with a decent sized garden. I was only in my 20s then. I don't think liking flowers is an old person thing is it?

By the way - what's a geranium? Is it something old ladies knit or crochet?

Don't be ridiculous!

No one is going to shave off just one year if they think their age is "old".