To feel too old for MN

[usualsuspect]

Everyone seems so young on here these days.

Maybe it's time I shuffled off to Gransnet.

I got over my David Cassidy crush and moved on to Alice Cooper

Are you me?
If so, we tried Gransnet and lost the plot when no-one understood the gin reference.
So it's here, or nowhere.

I do cherish a nice lie down these days.

On a bit more serious note, I work in an environment that is mostly female and that has a lot of diversity, including age. I really enjoy this about my work, and it is one of the things that drew me to MN.

At work, I have a very symbiotic relationship with the young ones. They help me with technology, and I help them with apostrophes.

no shopping trolley, but I have a bike with a basket on the front, and I yearn for an old fashioned ladies sit up and beg bike, with Cath Kidston paniers

I got over my David Cassidy crush and moved on to Alice Cooper

I moved on to David Bowie.

David Cassidy TOTALLY owned Donny Osmond.

Heinz is still posh! What's the matter with Lidl? :)

Glad someone mentioned Donny Osmond, phew! I thought for a moment he was a figment of my imagination

god i never thought you and yer crew were old, your words dont sound old

I will be 62 very soon . I am not going anywhere . I spend much too much time on this site.
But we could have a topic called "Hagsnet" .

The thing that I love about Mumsnet is that there are people of all different ages and classes and living in different parts of the world. We all meet and chat and sometimes squabble and it's great!

This is not a parenting site, as far as I am concerned. in spite of the name.

actually, yes, maybe it's time in that case

where does that leave meeeee .... I own a beige cardigan.

I am 64 and on Gransnet too but I like the way the discussions zip along here better - on a good day it reminds me of my seventies Women's Group. The book discussions are much better and I never (well hardly ever) give annoying old-fart advice about childcare...
Oh and I can still hold my foot and get it past my ear with a straight knee (though it is getting harder with my left leg)...

Is this where I wander in and confess that although many of your youngest children are significantly older than I, I too fancied a cardigan on the M&S website last night, and would prefer a nice cup of tea and a biscuit to a night on the lash?

DD prefers Camberwick Green to Octonauts, too.

Also, none of you are old. Most of you are about my mum's age and she's not old. Just mum. All cuddly and makes self-saucing pud and then pins you with a death glare if you admit to not acing an exam.

Hey steady on... Old...What? Grans what? No babies, no screamies, weenies or tweenies ... But hang on ... Hold your horses... Catch on to yourself girl ... Too Old for MN??

Ok so DD1 was out of nappies when Huggies were a novelty and Rosie & Jim was interactive TV...though DD2 still has the word teen in her age it's not got a thir or a number close to that in front.... and I once went to an Imagination concert and it wasn't on the comeback tour if you want to talk 80s but I am definitely going to call you out for BU to even write the O word and put it into peoples minds that its time to shuffle of to .... Sunny Lodge Gransville to talk Tena, the length of DH eyebrows & nose hair (did you even know they could grow that long) and whether I should LTB because he won't use Grecian 2000.. Hmmmph.

Yep YABVVU. [Hoists bosom, adjusts rollers in hair net, reaches for varifocals and slurps cuppa] gransnet my ar*e!

I swapped my ker-plunk for someone's manky used make-up kit, and met cheggers. Ah, halcyon days.

In ginsnet will we be able to tie the bottom of our shirts together in a knot and reminisce about Bobby Ewing scenes always having his close-ups filmed in soft focus?

I am with CeQueLEnfer. I really like the variety of people on mumsnet. I like reading the views of the very young posters, having a window into the lives of rural and city dwellers, rich and poor, people from different cultures, those with different beliefs and values. If anything happened to me I hope my daughter would go on mumsnet for advice and support. If everyone here was of my generation I would not stay.

"I can't be that old then,I don't own a pair of slippers."

I do . I get cold feet if I don't wear slippers. I was a Donny Osmond fan, used to fancy Pete Duel in Alias Smith and Jones, remember the oil crisis in the early 1970s with all the power cuts, the three day week, Angela Rippon getting her legs out on Morecambe and Wise at Christmas, enjoyed the Slade Christmas song when it first came out and TV finishing at 10.30 during industrial action from the miners.

I give you .... Starsky and Hutch.

And Kojak. Telly Savalos talking through that song 'If'.

The 70s were quite surreal.

Do you remember that pair out of 'it ain't half hot mum' having a song in the hit parade charts

reeling, I too moved on from cassidy to bowie. but I've always had a sneaking admiration for alice cooper - especially when he said he'd been faithful to his wife for forty-five years. that impressed me. forty-five minutes would be more like it for some men...

Hahahaha 'Whispering Grass' usual. oh no I don't remember that at all. Nor 'The trail of the lonesome pine'.

I'm old and I wear comfy slippers from M & S. I was gutted when Pete Duel died and liked David Cassidy rather than Donny. I also liked James Drury from the Virginian.

I used to fancy Blue from The High Chapperal.