To have not realised how old I am??

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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?

Yes! I remember that. I still had to demonstrate hand signals ..slowing down and such. I failed .
My next test ,compulsory seat belts were going to be introduced and my instructor said I may as well get used to wearing one. Hated it. !

I remember getting milk delivered… because it was on my doorstep this morning. I didn’t realise this was an old fashioned thing!

Yes, same here, it was a case of go to the lectures or miss out! Good point about time wasted scrolling on phones, so much time saved from not doing that- my eldest DC reads lots of Politics books and has a subscription to a political magazine as he is studying Politics at A level but he is still on his phone scrolling but it is often stuff on current affairs here and with the U.S election. He does say he thinks it would have been better to be a teen pre smart phone as it is all consuming!

Anyone remember Bagpuss? Saggy old cloth cat..?

Oh bagpuss oh bagpuss look at this thing that I bring be bright be bright be golden and light.

My father, born soon after the First World War died at 72. When I was giving my family health history to be considered for HRT, I remarked that considering he had a very low income upbringing and worked in the coal mines for half his working life, 72 wasn't so bad.

Not so said the GP, it counted as an early death.

Do you remember-
Bus conductors
Petrol pump attendants
Only one TV channel-BBC
Fountain pens
Sitting in exam room for 3 hours writing essay-type answers
BBC announcers in dinner jackets
Stockings with seams
Suspender belts
Sunday school outings to the seaside
11 plus
School dentists
Home perms

The examiner decided that because of the snow I could close the window and not bother with hand signals. His last test of the year, and he passed me.

Life expectancy at the time was well below 72. Admittedly that was in a large part due to infant deaths.

I worked out the other day, that when I play my DD my early 80s bands, it’s basically the same as if my dad had played me his 1940s music when I was a teenager . That made me feel old!

I often think it strange how elastic time is; I was a child of the 1950s and couldn't understand why the war was still talked about as if it happened yesterday, but now I do - the Millennium was 20-odd years ago and that was yesterday!

I can remember as a teen having a set time to ring my bf. They had no phone so I had to call the phone box and he would go there to take the call. Seems prehistoric now when we all walk around with our phones.

Also, I have a firstname.lastname@ email address which is apparently also a sign of age.

I was born 1960. My family didn't have a car or a telephone, we had a copper in the kitchen to boil washing when I was tiny, didn't get a twin tub or TV until I was about 6. Sheets and blankets on beds, no central heating, writing letters to everyone, having to make arrangements to meet school friends several weeks in advance during school holidays and hoping they remembered...

I look back nostalgically, but mobiles and the internet does make life more convenient now (even if the TV is worse!)

I realised how old I was the other day when driving along a road, and I was remembering when it was first built (bypass) and for a long time the trees planted next to it had those greenish tubes around them - I was a child and hadn’t seen so many trees planted like that before. Those trees are all now tall and mature (about 40 years old, maybe more), you’d think they’d been there forever.

I was surprised, as an adult, to see Bagpuss is a pinky colour. We had a black & white tv and I assumed he was orange.

40 and feel extremely old when I realise I could technically be the mother of my 20 and 21 year old colleagues. Very depressing.
Time just flies by. One minute you are young, the next, middle aged.

Born 1969. Husband born early 1960s. It was very amusing watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles with our teenagers!

@NorthernKitty - I thought Bagpuss was orange, too! We used to love the Clangers.

I'm old enough to be the grandmother of some of my work colleagues! They alternate between treating me like one of them and as though I am some rare antique from an earlier age (which, I suppose, is fair enough).

My father ( born 1922) was horrified when he first shopped in a supermarket . He only went in for some milk . Apparently he described the experience to my mother "......and do you know ,I had to FETCH IT MYSELF!"
I was with him in the 60s when had his first frothy coffee in a newfangled coffee bar " Well! I got through the bubbles and all I was left with was a damp cup!" When I think his mum was born in 1888( Jack the Ripper era) I wish now I asked her more questions when I had the chance. I wonder what changes a baby born today will see .

I'm 60, soon 61, but I still feel about 25 on the inside.

I was thinking last week how I might get into riding again, and then remembered I was too old, too broken and too bloody fat to get on a horse. It made me sad for a bit that that part of my life is over.

I don't remember my last ride, I didn't realise it at the time so it didn't register. It probably would've been a nice quiet hack round the fields on my old boy, if anything bad had happened I would've remembered I'm sure.