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You know you are getting on a bit when....
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You look in Jackson's windows in Reading and actually want to buy something as it looks as if it will last well.
(very old fashioned shop that still has the shuttle system for sending money in a tube to the cashier)0 -
joeblack066 wrote: »I live where David Nieper is! I didn't even know they did clothes, thought it was just lingerie & nighties! I will investigate!
Yes, and they have a shop! http://www.davidnieper.co.uk/company-shop
I tend to get things in their sales, nowadays. Needing smaller sizes - just got a lovely embroidered blouse for 'special occasions'.[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Æ[/FONT]r ic wisdom funde, [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]æ[/FONT]r wear[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]ð[/FONT] ic eald.
Before I found wisdom, I became old.0 -
bouncydog1 wrote: »You know you're getting old when your daughter tells you that you can only go topless on holiday if she's not around (and I'm only in my 50's)!!!!!:rotfl:
Ooops. Wonder what it would be like to be on a beach where others are topless. I've got scars, but...
6 weeks today since surgery - reduction mammoplasty.[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Æ[/FONT]r ic wisdom funde, [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]æ[/FONT]r wear[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]ð[/FONT] ic eald.
Before I found wisdom, I became old.0 -
... when getting your socks on is an achievement.If you fold it in half, will an Audi A4 fit in a Citroen C5?
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When you actually go into Jacksons to buy your jackets (as I have done ).So I guess I qualify.0
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when your brain tells you one thing and your body says sod that,0
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When you go into the bathroom, run a bubblebath, bring through candles and a mug of tea while it's filling up, get your book, put the radio on, turn the lights down and sink into the bubbles.
Then you sit up and think 'I only came in the room for a pee.' This happened to me last week. I am 38.Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps....
LB moment - March 2006. DFD - 1 June 2012!!! DEBT FREE!
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When you hear the first three notes of a tune and say Ricky Nelson/Monotones/Eddie Cochran/Patsy Cline etc., etc., and know all the words to every song.
When your grandchildren repeated play a new song and you tell them who sang the original back in the 50/60's - that really winds them up
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You know you're old...
when you are arguing about the Thatcher years on other threads...
from memory!Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily Dickinson
Janice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear0 -
lilac_lady wrote: »When you become invisible to shop assistants.......!!
... when you become invisible to "charity muggers".
... when you hear Rossini's William Tell overture and think of the Lone Ranger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7O91GDWGPUIf you fold it in half, will an Audi A4 fit in a Citroen C5?
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