One minute you're young and hip and the next you're searching for the perfect teaset

[dollydarling]

I've taken to having a sit down breakfast since WFH. This now entails a toast rack and proper tea pot. I've now decided I need proper old school flowery china and possibly a tea cosy.

I'm not even 30

Yup. One minute I'm partying thurs till Sunday with 2 fellas on the go and the next i'm collecting jigsaw puzzles and...framing them. Welcome!

Yep. Used to go to bed at 4am, smelling of Chanel No 5 and vodka.

Now it's 10:30pm smelling of Deep Heat & Horlicks.

I’m 36 and my DH recently bought me a retro China tea set and I was absolutely delighted. Best gift he has ever bought me. I’m with you on this one OP

Used to go to bed at 4am, smelling of Chanel No 5 and vodka.

That sounds v glamourous

A toast rack? This sounds amazing! Is it a posh one? Where do you buy toast racks these days?
I am actually getting excited about the prospect of a toast rack!!

Meh, I used to buy tea sets and toast racks in my 20's. Now I'm twice that age I'm not interested anymore- I think you might still be young!

You sound like my mother. She loved a toast rack and pretty breakfast china.

I got it from John Lewis, which makes it the poshest thing I've ever owned but it was only £7

I'm 26 this year and I've been searching for a lovely tea set and maybe a matching cake stand. Definitely feel a lot older than 26, my weekly pill box and joint support straps don't help.

goes away to google toast racks from John lewis

I have been trying using real butter this week not Olivio etc and need to get a butter dish !

50 this year!

I got a pair of gardening gloves for Christmas, and as a treat I recently bought myself an embroidery kit (with a Bible verse design, no less!) I’m only 30.

I know. I have bought myself a cross stitch kit and am looking at a pretty mug for my morning coffee!

I have a tea cosy!! I am 49.
As compensation my dh is just turned 40!

Yep. Thing is as much as I had a lot of fun drinking and partying in my 20's I am much happier gardening, reading, sewing and cooking now in my 40's!

I'm off to find a toast rack and tea set.

I started using real butter a year ago so have a butter dish. I also have a teapot. I'm 46.

I just argue with a mini version of myself, about why they cant take their clothes off in public.

To be fair does remind me of when me and my friends were on a night out

And I'm only 27.

I owned a butter dish even in my clubbing days though, real butter on toast is a good hangover cure.

I did buy slippers the other day, that's a new low for me.

I found part of a beautiful second-hand Noritake teaset (Japanese but made for the European market) at an antiques fair. It would have been perfect except it had been repaired and was unusable. Reader, I still bought it! It is ornamentally gorgeous! I was in my late 20s/early 30s!

I now get up at the same time as I used to get home back in my clubbing days. FML 😭

Same lol. I’ve just brought a lovely teapot from Neptune.

I'm 46 and put a teasmade in my home office today I've been staring at those walls since March with no end in sight so thought I should make it more comfortable

You might need this thread, OP:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/3944582-To-realise-I-like-old-lady-things

Knitting is where it's at. Last year my DM got me a fabric knitting needle roll for my birthday. Imagine my excitement when I discovered it was populated with every size of needle abs a couple of crochet hooks! I'm currently listening to planet rock and reminiscing about Jilly's in Manchester. No way could I handle the all nighter now.

I'd like to knit but suspect I'd run out of patience.