You know you're middle aged when...

[PollyCreo]

You go out in the morning at the same time you used to come home at 😲

The sun rises very early where I live (not UK) so after the clocks changed I decided to embrace this and go for a brisk 4 mile walk every morning before work 🌞 It is truly lovely, it's warm and I enjoy seeing the sun come up. However it was only 12 years ago I used to be stumbling out of a nightclub at 5.45am and looking for a taxi to get me home 🧐 What has happened to me?

When you actually do decide to go out for drinks on an evening you start wistfully thinking about being at home in pjs with a cup of tea while in the taxi on your way to town

....

What was I doing again?

When you meet the eager new graduate at work, and while shaking hands, think to yourself : ‘I own t-shirts older than you, mate’.

You start wearing big knickers.

When bonfire night falls on a Saturday and you are SO relieved you missed out on getting tickets for the fireworks party, so now you can go home and spend the evening indoors ministering to your sniffly cold instead of outside where the damp and cold seem to be seeping into your 45 year old bones.

This when junior doctors start on the wards… I feel so old at 43 but let’s face it could be their mum! 😂

When you and your partner buy each other slippers for Christmas (again).

Op, that’s the lovely part of getting older - appreciating the sunlight, the fresh air and being able to walk in them. I’m so happy not to be tumbling out of a nightclub - much as I used to enjoy that! I love being middle aged and finally not giving a fuck about what people think of me - so freeing!

When ALL the colleagues in your team at work weren’t born when Diana died or when the planes hit the twin towers.

When you find out that clothing & jewellery from the 90s is considered 'vintage'.

When people start buying presents for you that include fluffy slippers, National Trust memberships, scarves, subscriptions to Good Housekeeping magazine, and cardigans from Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

I went to see a consultant ophthalmologist so he must have been into his 30's and found myself thinking 'does your mother know you're out?'

I must be middle aged now, i love a good tea towel😂

You would rather stay in and don't want to go out in the evenings

May be just me

You can remember a time before mobile phones.

You eat a pepperoni pizza and get terrible heartburn at 2am.

You boss has just left university and you think omg, he's only 6 years older than our DD.

When you choose Hotter for your comfortable footwear.

DH is buying me PJ's this year, lovely warm soft jersey, to go with my dressing gown he got me last year .

It's a million times better than all the sexy undies with scratchy lace on.

Thank goodness for Hotter

I forgot to mention that when we making plans for a drive out somewhere today, I googled to make sure it had a tea room. It didn’t. We went elsewhere.

I was walking the dogs the other day when DH drove past me on his way home. He said "Jesus wept, what on earth do you look like........." and when I got in, I did realise that I had on pj bottoms, with thick wellie socks and walking boots all topped off with a lurid pink scarf (one of the DC's), my coat and an Aussie weatherbeater hat .........

Didn't give a rats arse, I was warm and comfy!!

When you're excited about taking the Lakeland catalogue to read at the hairdressers instead of the usual magazines.

You need a funking magnifying glass to read the back of food packets.was the writing always that small?

….when you find out that you
actually do enjoy gardening, and birds, and mugs with either of the above on them.

When you get the garden 'winter ready'

I invested in some really high quality john Lewis bedding, it was so worth it.

Oh god, I'm getting old too aren't I? Hahaha

Do you know what I do? Take a photo of it and zoom in 😂