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

Wait until you are nearly 40 and incontinence pads feature on the weekly shopping list then you'll really feel old.

36 years old and an avid collector of teapots here..... welcome to the club!

Indeed it gets worse. When a night out looms, Zantac is now my recreational drug of choice.

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

You are in good company. The other day I reached for a perfume and thought what is the use I am already wearing deep heat!

I found a photo of friends and me getting ready for a night out taken in my flat in Glasgow. Would have been late 90s and the clock in the background says 11.05 pm. All I could think about when I found it is that's well past my bedtime now.

The difference is that that's when I wanted to go out then and now I just wouldn't want to, so it's all good.

I went to visit a friend in my mid 20s and she had just got some lovely le cruset pots. Oh the envy. That was the moment for me.
Also finally got mu lovely le cruste pots last year. I feel like I aced being a grown up.

@MacDuffsMuff

I found a photo of friends and me getting ready for a night out taken in my flat in Glasgow. Would have been late 90s and the clock in the background says 11.05 pm. All I could think about when I found it is that's well past my bedtime now.

The difference is that that's when I wanted to go out then and now I just wouldn't want to, so it's all good.

I grew up in NI which had very different opening times for the pubs. They were empty till 10ish, and if there was live music it usually started around 10. Things only got going around 11. When I worked in bars we would be standing around doing very little until then.

I had a Zoom night with friends on Friday that started at 7pm and I had drunk far too much and wanted my bed by 11. How times have changed.

If your 'young and hip' includes looking all edgy and stylish OP, you might want to have a look at this thread as a window into your future. .

Enjoy your tea and toast though .

I'm 40 and I don't own a teapot or a toast rack. It's probably about time i grew up, isn't it?

Some people are just rebels and mix it all up throughout life. My MIL could still party like a 25yo in her late 70s. Her son took his knitting to the pub in his early 20s. I was thinking just now how middle-age I've become with my large collection of pot plants- until I remembered the collection I set up and looked after at work when I was 24.

Embrace anything you enjoy at any time of life is what I take from it. No reason you can't drink vodka and cherish your tea set. Backpack around the world (pandemics permitting) and enjoy quiet nights in front of the telly.

I’ve been rewatching Lark Rise To Candleford and I keep catching myself absolutely covering Dorcas’s tea set.

I realise that there is nothing remotely hip about that sentence, but I care not.

*coveting, fgs

Oh hell, I’ve just googled and it’s all over eBay.

Should I?

Teapots are my one weakness...

YABU - about the toast rack.

Used to hate being invited to stay in houses that owned them; cold toast every morning.

But for teasets, you need this site:

www.mariagefreres.com/UK/welcome.html

Utter heaven. (And yes, I have one of their sets.)