It's official, I am aging.

[PrettyCandles]

It's finally happened. My body has done something that I can't just put down to having had children (so it's a badge of honour) or to being sleep-deprived/being fat (so it will go away once I get more sleep/lose weight). And it makes me glum.

I need reading glasses. As well as my usual glasses.

My right eye has aged, but my left eye hasn't. Or at least isn't showing the signs of aging like my right eye is.

Poo. I don't want to be old.

Your eyesight in one eye is a bit old. I think it will be quite some time before the rest of you follows suit.

I've already got the wrinkles, the broken capillaries and the Van Dals! I don't consider them anything to do with aging (LOL) - wrinkles were caused by skin allergies, broken capillaries by pregnancies, Van Dals by simply having always been hefty-hoofed.

How old are you? I'm 44 and I have four children. I'm too senile to remember to go for an eye test. But I do have excellent teeth as you can see

I'd better turn in but I'll look in tomorrow. Perhaps we could talk Stannah stairlifts and the House of Bath catalogue?

42 with 3 children - the youngest of whom has only just learned to sleep (at 18m) wakes at 5-5.30am.

Teeth. . Mine, anyway.

See, senility setting in already. I think I can cope without a stairlift, but am quite excited by the idea of a walk-in bath.

Prettycandles - Are you still with us? Can we talk old lady hairstyles?

Blue rinse?

When do the Tena Lady moments hit - I am 41 and waiting in dread!

Grey pubes

never understood the walk-in bath concept...

I mean, how??

And, if we are talking hair, I insist that someone around here does the looooooong ponytail which looks so good on old ladies

I thought I was having a "hot flush" today.
Work was cold, not freezing just not warm iykwim. I went into another part and was talking and I was heating up , I was getting worried then realised they had but the heating back on.

Pah, you spring chickens, you.

I've had reading glasses for about five years now, but finally have to use them.

If they could at least be peering-over-the-top librarian glasses... But for that you have to be able to see when you peer over the top!

Well, if I'm to grow old (which I still don't want to do!) shall I grow old gracefully, or disgracefully?

Dis.

Of course

How?

Ach, that's no biggie. Get some gorgeous purple glasses and you'll feel younger nnot older!

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, with a red hat that doesn't go...

I've tried, honest I have. I dyed my white hairs blue, and red, both times unsuccessfully.

Do something middleaged/old ladies aren't supposed to do...

...that gives you a fair amount of options...

...I had two kids in my 40s, so will no doubt be disgraceful for the rest of my life