You know you're middle aged when...

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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?

Yes! I had to go to a physio recently and I swear he wasn’t much older than my son. A few years ago I’d probably have flirted a bit with him (he was hot!) but as it was I felt more like his mum!

When you look in a mirror and cant understand why you look like your mother !

@PeacheyPeach You still look in a mirror? I gave that up some years ago!

When you start eyeing up the 'big foot warmer' in Lidl. (The one you used to snigger at in the catalogue)

When I can't be bothered to stay out late.

Oh yes! Totally this! 😂

I’ve started buying ornaments….

No, it’s me too.

... when you willingly engage in a thread about how many radiators you have and it's mildly of interest to you how you set up compares to others.

When you read all the comments on this thread and give them a big fist bump 😂

I think this is in line with actually reading those little magazines that come within other magazines/newspapers, like Coopers...and you go ooh, that foot warmer looks nice...and oooh...look at that bird table!

In the shops, say if a child is in your way if you are a certain age, their mother might say 'mind that woman' instead of 'mind that lady' even. It used to be 'mind that girl' 😪

I get excited about comfy loungewear I can wear in the evening in front of the fire

Yep, this! I've just bought two new pairs with varifocals and it's nearly bankrupted me😂

When you venture into urban outfitters, having last been in one in the late 90s and all the clothes are exactly the same! Like stepping into a time warp. I wanted to buy it all but when I saw myself in the mirror my mum was staring back at me!

When you’re really excited about a new farm shop opening.

Drying washing on the line makes you feel accomplished

10:30pm is a late night

When you are pleased that interest rates have gone up.

Only wanting to own comfortable shoes that will take an orthotic.

Knowing you have to pace yourself to juggle the professional balls.

Half your friends are retired or having grandchildren.

Your grown up children start listening to you.

You worry about your dh's prostate when he needs a wee at 4am every morning and dribbles a bit afterwards and stubbornly refuses to mention it to the Dr he hasn't seen for 7 years.

When some of your contemporaries become unwell and die.

Your MIL has parkinsons and your mother has a problem with one of her heart valves.

😂😂

I used to laugh at a middle aged aunt of mine who collected the Lillput Lane country cottages back in their hey day. Silly old bint, I thought at the time.... The other day I was drawn to a shop window full of ornamental birds and animals and marvelled at the lovely things. "Look at that chirpy robin on a spade handle" I said to DD, who rolled her eyes as if to say "silly old bint".

My sister pointed out to me recently that I now have "car mints". That's when I realised I'm officially middle aged. I remember visiting my grandparents and they always had a packet of humbugs in the car.

The only thing you want to pick up on holiday is a fridge magnet.

When you don't recognise any of the actors in the new series on TV...

When you have scroll down a looooot to find the year of your birth from a drop down menu 🥺

Yes! And your collection of fridge magnets is proof ( in your eyes) that you’ve ‘done well’.

When you cough and end up farting at the same time. When you need your glasses on to put your mascara on but can't put your mascara on because your glasses are in the way.

Even worse when you do recognise them,( they were in that thing you both liked, no not that thing, the other thing, the one with whatsername in) but you can’t remember any of their names…..