To have not realised how old I am??

[bellav]

DH and I were just talking and one of us said "as if by magic" after which the other one said "the shopkeeper appeared!" Obviously a Mr Benn reference! So we Googled and found this:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155630054483895

Which talks about coal being delivered and also looks SO dated! Now we feel old! We remember milk being delivered and playing out in the street, one phone in the house that you had to sit at and use the "dially thing". Argh! We were born late 70s. How have times changed so much??? Anyone else shocked?

You’re about the same age as me! I’m sort of in denial.

All the things you mention in your post sound both incredibly recent and at the same time like another world.

I did get a year back though, as my birthday is November and I have a tendency to round my age up in my head from January 😂 God knows why. I realised recently I’m actually 45 and not 46 which was a bonus, although not for much longer!

I'm 59.. I feel about 25 mentally. 35 physically. Times have changed but I love having lived through the changes.

Well I still have coal and milk delivered so that is current for me.

My children used to play out and my phone is an original Bakelite 1930s rotary dial. The dogs howl along every time it rings

I had milk delivered up until about 5 years ago when my milkman died.

I'm mid fifties and I do feel old, especially as I work in a museum that exhibits some of my favourite childhood toys! 🙈🤣

I'm 45. My body currently feels 85, but I have the emotional maturity of a 15 year old most days!
I don't feel 'old', but I do miss being able to do back flips.

Yeah. Born in the late 50s. As a child of 6 or 7 in a village, I roamed the highways (not really- the lanes) and visited people.
If I thought i might have been a bit late, I would bring some drooping bluebells to Mum or something.
Creaking now but trying exercise bike to build up after covid and sitting like prawn on the sofa.
Inside I still feel young and have always very silly humour.
There you go.
Mind you - who are those people on Celebrity MasterChef??

@bellav I remember my dad always getting telegrams from his work I(delivered by a boy on a bike by gpo (post office) telling him he was needed to work overtime on the railway!) we didnt have a phone or a car, people worked on christmas day and post office had a bus going around the streets delivering extra parcels! we skated on the hard packed snow on the roads. played tennis in the street with the umpire sitting on the top deck of a step ladder! no fridge! no microwave! hail rain or shine, we went to school. buses had snow chains in the winter. buses also had conductors!!! No body had a washing machine but we all had a coal fire so at least one room was warm!! I am 69!!

@bellav

my god daughter passed her written part of her DL the other day, she thought the results would come up on the screen at the end, but they didn't & she had to wait (nervously) for the woman to give her the results. (She wasn't complaining. Just saying how nervous she was waiting. Daft thing!! She did very well)

but then I reminded her when
i did mine, you left the testing centre. The 'papers' got sent off to be marked manually and then the results were sent to you snail mail

No instant results, no text, no whatsapp, insta etc not even email.

she's always known it didn't all exist when I was young (now 55) but I think this is the first time that it's really been relatable. Were only talking 40 years & SO much has changed!

Born mid 60s
I love that nostalgic feeling watching kids programmes from that time period.
Here's a teaser what programme was this from.
The intro...Do you live in a town?.

Had that when we went round the museum of childhood in Edinburgh years ago,I was constantly cooing oh I remember that,had that.

Hahahahahahahahaha!

Hic!

Age 72 ( lots here older but probably tucked up by now)

They need to bring back the parcel bus for Royal Mail. Sounds like it was good.

My teens were looking at some photos my Mum has recently and they laughed at me about 5 sitting at my Dad’s Amstrad computer that he used for his business in the mid 80s. It got on to whether I used the internet for my uni work and I did but my older brother could hand wrote his essays which they were blown away by! They also didn’t understand why I was up all night trying to get my printer to work for printing off my dissertation in the early 00s, I told them that I nearly chucked it out the window! 😬 My favourite tv programme was super Ted and Pigeon Street but my brothers was Mr Ben!

Sorry, appalling grammar above!

My (class) children are all gobsmacked when I say I'm older than the Internet 😂

I watched a Taggart from the 90s the other night... that was 'recent' to my mind yet the cars were insane in comparison to today's.

We didn't have a phone until I was a teenager. I had to walk to the phone box in all weathers to phone friends who did have one.

@Thevelvelletes it rings a bell but can't remember?

I'll put you out of your misery.
Mary,mungo and midge.😀

Yes, it’s funny isn’t it! I think the changes in phone usage were so rapid in the 00s though in contrast to the 90s which certainly changed the ‘teenager’. I was obsessed, still am with sitcoms, often as a tween or teenager I’d watch certain ones on my own but I noticed with My Family which I am rewatching at the moment on iplayer that the first series the phone is not present but then the teenage girl, Janey is obsessed with it post 2000 series, I had the same pink flip up Motorola as her which my DD who is a young teen, thinks is a great design!

@bellav I remember the old black phones in the phone boxes! push button A and push button B!! think you pushed one to connect when someone answered but I might be wrong! no daytime tv apart from watch with mother eg andy pandy, bill and ben etc/ main tv started at 5pm with the usual suspect which are still going, blue peter and crackjack! people only had one bath a week because. the fire heated the hot water via a back boiler. I remember when we eventually got an immersion put in! I remember when we got a house phone! thought we were the bees knees. it was a party line though and the other party had young kids who kept playing with the phone, meaning we couldnt use it. had to keep walking 400 yards down to their house to tell them to put their phone back on the hook!

Pah!

I remember not having our own phone, colour TV not a thing, renting your TV being perfectly normal and standing for the National Anthem in the cinema at the end of the showing.

And EVERY adult over 25 wore a hat outside the home.

Outside toilets, having to attach pipes and tubes to a twin tub washing machine every time you used it, portable TVs with coathangers for aerials, lawnmowers you had to push, Bissell carpet sweepers.
At a very prestigious, but non-fee paying London girls school, we had some class sets of books dated from the 1920s (in the 70s). Teachers used to smoke in the classroom.
I remember lugging hardback text books to and from school in a briefcase style bag - backpacks for everyday use just weren't invented yet - we had a proper camping rucksack for camping, but everyday backpacks just weren't a thing. But there were actual cloakrooms at school, where you could safely leave your coat and PE kit, unlike my DCs secondary schools, where they have to carry everything with them all day.

I’m now early 50s. Don’t really feel it, but I remember my niece looking at me like I had two heads when I told her I used to have a typewriter! 😂 her reaction made me feel ancient! 🤣

Last night I was watching the Paralympics and thought “well, I’d like to get back to that in the future”.

Then it occurred to me that the last time I was involved was around 40 years ago and I’m now knocking 60. It was a shock to realise that’s just not going to happen.

Also the table tennis champion they were featuring is 14. I was playing wheelchair basketball at that age and realising I was at best mediocre. It seems like yesterday. 😳

I had to get my MSc dissertation typed up by a specialist typist.

I remember getting “galley proofs” on super-thin paper that had to be corrected using printers marks before your paper was finally published in a scientific journal.

And EVERY adult over 25 wore a hat outside the home. Goodness! When was that? My mother never wore a hat,except for chuch,and she was the first to go hatless to church when the C&E declared it was acceptable sometime in the 40s. I only wore a hat for school, and only when prefects were present.