Just let out an audible "Yisss!" when I saw that to was Grey Bin Day tomorrow.
Had a couple of young landscape contractors round Fri/Sat replacing a garden wall with a sleeper wall. They were running a bit behind because of the monsoon we had on Friday, so on Sat I offered that if they marked up some of the sleepers, I'd help them to cut them to length.
I should be able to raise my sawing arm to shoulder height again by the weekend. On the plus side, have justified a recip saw to myself just in case I ever need to saw some more stuff up.
My hairdresser asked "Do you want your eyebrows doing?"
Chainsaw would be better for sleepers, less wobble. Also means a good excuse to look tough and spend hours filing the chain.
My worst problem with getting older is my body reminding me constantly that I have badly messed it up for nearly all of my 49 years, but my brain constantly trying to use it the same way as I did when I was 25. My knees, elbows and back just can't do that any more.
Hair growing out of and on my ears. WTF is that all about?
Another sign of getting older is not spotting my typos.
Just let out an audible “Yisss!” when I saw that it was Grey Bin Day tomorrow.
A hair dresser who cut my hair said it was the duty of the old to grow hair in strange places to horrifiy the young.
I am doing my best.
To use some business jargon... "Low hanging fruit".
Found myself momentarily quite fancying a watch of 'Antiques Roadshow' yesterday.
Glasses for the first time this weekend, the first really sobering age related milestone.
You can’t stand up without adding your own sound effects.
Last week I was in a national trust property wearing Marks and Sparks zip off trousers.
I'm really looking forward to receiving and fitting a new rain deflector that I ordered for the bottom of my back door.
Oh and I've ordered some crocs too, for pottering around the house /garden.
Pottering is now a valid passtime.
I'm not aghast at the idea of spending time gardening on a sunny weekend afternoon anymore.
Went to a garden centre with the boss last bank holiday Monday…
Picking stuff up from the floor is now a planned activity
Found myself momentarily quite fancying a watch of ‘Antiques Roadshow’ yesterday.
Found myself momentarily quite fancying the presenter on 'Antiques Roadshow' yesterday
Bar staff look at you like you’re an alien for paying with cash rather than your Apple Watch or phone.
When you bend down you think 'what else could I be doing while I'm here?'
Standing in front of things - dishwasher/shop/person you've know for 30 years and saying 'no, don't tell me, it'll come to me in a second what I'm doing here'
Green Bin Day double underlined on the family calendar 🙂
lusting after a Honda Jazz.
never. I hope…
For me, it was waking up to sunshine and wind on Saturday and the first thought in my head was “ooh, great laundry day! Let’s wash alllll the bedsheets!!”
I've been building a patio all weekend, the aches and pains are real.
But the oldest part was a friend being over from the US this weekend and I couldn't go out for a curry as IBS says no onion and garlic and no beers, so met him for a lunch at a veggie place yesterday instead.
I've finally worked out that marriage is in fact just shouting "what?" at each other from different rooms
This sold out while I was pricing it!
and you said, yes (at least you care)/ no (you are old)...
Reply to the Eyebrows trimming question that I can quote for some reason... I am am guessing I am old and forgotten how to do this
I have spent the weekend stripping the front suspension and bushes out of my T5 van. Typing is a struggle this morning...
Someone nearly bumped into my in my local Sainsbury's the other day and said "Sorry Sir"....
Remembering when white socks were in fashion, went out of fashion for decades and came back in. Still waiting for the reappearance of leather trousers and cheesecloth shirts.
zippykona
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Last week I was in a national trust property wearing Marks and Sparks zip off trousers.
Known as action slacks in our family.
Edit - don't know what's happened to quotes :o)
I hate everything about getting old. It has sucked the joy out of life.
When young people offer you their seat on the bus. It's a kind act but there are lots of younger people who need a seat more.
Action Slacks in our household too.
Another one... When your default trainers are indistinguishable from your hiking boots.
I hate everything about getting old. It has sucked the joy out of life.
I dunno, I quite like the honesty that comes with age.
"Have you spoken to <insert name> recently?"
"No, he's a ****."
Could do without the knee pain though.
Standing in front of things – dishwasher/shop/person you’ve know for 30 years and saying ‘no, don’t tell me, it’ll come to me in a second what I’m doing here’
My favourite place for this is standing staring into the fridge, wondering why I've just opened the door. There must have been a reason, surely? But what?
I think I'm rapidly approaching the Billy Connolly point of getting old... "never trust a fart" 😂
Action slacks?
I've been wearing them as my default for 25 years.
Not M&S though.
Another one… When your default trainers are indistinguishable from your hiking boots.
Also around 20 years, mainly changed after the move to Sweden, running shoes are for running, anything else requires a bit more bulk.
Glasses for the first time this weekend, the first really sobering age related milestone.
Sigh, i've been wearing them for 45 years, except for a 3 or 4 year period in my late teens when i decided to live with everything being a bit blurry. Coincided with having to pay for my own!
I dunno, I quite like the honesty that comes with age.
“Have you spoken to <insert name> recently?”
“No, he’s a ****.”
We're enjoying the guilt free 'why are we friends with them?' clearout stage. Stop going to social events with casual acquaintances and concentrate on those few you really are friends with.
Agree with the glasses. Was convinced my new fitness watch had a shite screen until I nipped into boots with the boss and was ordered to try on reading glasses......ah yes, the screen is actually impressively sharp.
Now also don't have to hold everything at arm's length to read.....
Still haven't got used to taking them everywhere.
Went to b and q and had to manually type in the barcode at the self service tills, felt like a right old Kent having to ask the young woman on the till next to me to read the code for me...if only I'd had my new glasses!
- Reading vision gone. Distance vision still excellent.
- Occasional mad long eyebrow hair.
- Stiffness after very moderate exercise - like lopping branches.
- Probably want a seat on a bus - but not offered one yet.
48 years old.
Still haven’t got used to taking them everywhere.
Not just me then!
Still haven’t got used to taking them everywhere.
This is why you need at least half a dozen pairs of readers! And and least one pair in the car at all times. 🙂
I've (unbelievably) still got eyes like a shithouse rat.
My hearing however...
WHAT? CAN YOU SPEAK UP A BIT?!!!
I probably did all the damage there in my 20's
I’m also suffering from hearing issues. Difficult to filter voices in a buy place.
Too many gigs (In the audience
- I have zero musical ability!).
Hair growing out of and on my ears. WTF is that all about?
A mate of mine, in his late 40s a couple of years back, was trying to chat up a lass in a pub. Suddenly she blurts out "hey, you've got an ear beard!"
You can’t stand up without adding your own sound effects.
I think I've been doing that since I was about 8.
This sold out while I was pricing it!
Sat watching... ironically, I can't remember the name, a music quiz on TV which isn't that godawful Hit List. Watching with The Girl, my partner's 20-something daughter. There was a hard line at around the turn of the Millennium, prior to that I'm killing it and she's got nothing, after that I'm oblivious and she's like "oh yeah, that's Smegzy featuring Kelly Q!" or whatevs.
Agree with the glasses.
...
Still haven’t got used to taking them everywhere.
I got my first glasses maybe three years ago, for driving. To this day I still get in the car, go "ah, crap" and have to go back indoors to get them.
My hearing however…
Pardon?
No, it's just the cut my action pants.
Difficult to filter voices in a buy place.
I think we call those "shops" these days.
Apologies - meant to type ‘busy’ place, but I didn’t have my reading glasses on - so didn’t see what autocorrect had done!
Is confused. Offspring recently went on a cruise for their annual holiday. What the heck? Jeez, there's absolutely no flippin' way that you'd get me on one of those. All those coffin dodgers, ugh. No, I'm not old after all!