To wonder how you recognise you're getting older

[clearlyaplasticgnome]

I hate having to go out in the evenings
I love listening to Radio 4
I dream of retirement and moving to a nice village beside the sea (never going to happen!)

The grey hairs sprouting

There is no point in getting drunk/drinking as falling over plastered is just sad.
I think that young people have it too easy hence why they don't understand struggle.
I have a vested interest in property/education/health rather than as an idealistic concept.
Grey eye brow

Your eyelids & neck 'go' Then your hands (But I swear byWaitrose Baby Butter )
You buy codliver oil tablets for your stiff joints
You discover brown eyebrow dye is a way kinder look than eye pencil and powder can makes creases look worse
You buy a lot more cardigans
You buy a lot more houseplants, name them and talk to them. A lot.
The 12 yr old in the mobile shop recommends the phone 'his mum likes'
Your 'porn' is nice decor/somewhere quite, in the country with dogs/cats/land
Your idea of bliss is a good book/movie and/or a nap

PS, to those with skin tags, clip them off wth nail clippers. They wont grow back. (perks to having shared with student Dr's)

Every time someone asks me the ages of my DC and I realise that I am the mother of two young women - how can this be?

Every time I consult a health care professional, I get ''it's common at your age.'' I've now got gum disease, fibroids and varifocals all because ''it's my age.''

I've got an old lady shopping trolley.

I can't drink on a school night.

My choice of pubs now depends on whether they're quiet and I can get a seat.

My age....well my year of birth is on my user name.

Enjoying lunch in a nice garden centre.

Going to bed and catching up with the archers on radio 4.

Noticing a lot of your work colleagues are your dc ages.

Looking forward to going to bed.

Not caring what people think of me. That came as a surprise, I spent years worrying about whether people liked me and now I'm very much 'take me as I am'.
A night out requires more recovery time than minor surgery. (My all time favourite meme)
Chin hairs and grey eyebrows.
Our parents offer to babysit in special occasions and we politely refuse because we just want to get a bottle of wine and a good film and crash in the sofa.

Oh and going into trendy shops that I liked as a teen but now in shopping for my own daughter! and telling her she won't be wearing a skirt THAT short

When you embarrass your son because you have advised a younger colleague on dating sites who then meets your son and tells him what a modern Mother you are. Muddy mates ok. ditto Tinder, ditto Mates.com but avoid plenty more fish especially the naughty pond.

They tell you your boobs will head South, but not your face below your nose.

The 'youngsters' being offended by questionable language on your part. They're such a bunch of prudes!

I'm 53.

I'd rather stay home than go out. At all, given the choice.
I feel cold all the time and dream about nodding off in a conservatory.
Kids are suddenly at Uni (and beyond)

I used to get it in my fishnets, but now I only get it in my nightdress.

Oh, and now I just walk past Topshop, H&M, New Look, Dotty perkins... the quality's just not there in those shops, is it?

...the quality's just not there in those shops, is it?...

Watching an interview with Alistair Cook on TV and instead of the customary leching to my friend along the lines of "phwoar, witness the fitness, I would totally ruin him", said the horrifying words " Isn't he handsome and polite. I bet his mum is really proud."

Then recoiled in disgust at the realisation.

When I enjoy watching re runs of sitcoms that I used to love "back in the day".
Have had a wonderful couple of weeks re watching Fresh Fields/French Fields, Goodnight Sweetheart, Only Fools and Horses and Butterflies can totally identify with Ria (Wendy Craig) now

DS has just got his first parking ticket. How am I old enough to have a son with a parking ticket?
Not enough I caught the first episode of just good friends a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't that funny to be honest, but it brought back memories.

When you think about whether or not there will be toilets when planning to go somewhere

Not just noticing grey hairs, but when I pointed them out to partner and mentioned I need hair dye asap, he replied 'oh they're not 'that' noticeable'.

Every response before had been 'you don't have grey hairs, silly'. I was a little bit devastated that day .

Buttered Oooh, thanks for reminding me-I loved that series. The will they, won't they? with Penny and Vince.

I'm soon to be 45. As a nurse, it's when the brand new baby doctors look abut 12 years old!

Bloody insomnia, when I was young I looked forward to my bed, now I dread bedtime because I know I'll be wide awake half the night.

still breathing, heart still beating= getting older. and it is a lot better than the alternative.

my Granny was a victorian. born in the century before last. her first sweetheart was killed in the first world war. Now that does not seem that long ago as there used to be veterans on the bus complete with medals.

There were still air raid shelters and outside toilets when I was at school.

when you are old enough to be your child's teacher's mother.

I started liking radio 4