Reply With QuotePicked up a bag of those a couple of days ago, forgotten how good they are. Also how small they are, must be me remembering them larger I imagine.
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Many moons ago, my mother in law made advent calendars for all the kids.
Every year she sends chocolates to fill them with, counting out just enough to fill all the calendars (kids and their boyfriends/husbands now).
This year however, there was a slight change to the norm, only a few but presumably increasing yearly to reflect their increasing ages.
Picked up a bag of those a couple of days ago, forgotten how good they are. Also how small they are, must be me remembering them larger I imagine.
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My wife has made the same things. But wife 3 children it’s a lot of little wrappers as she still does them at 16 to 19 years old.Originally Posted by Dave+63
Many moons ago, my mother in law made advent calendars for all the kids.
Every year she sends chocolates to fill them with, counting out just enough to fill all the calendars (kids and their boyfriends/husbands now).
This year however, there was a slight change to the norm, only a few but presumably increasing yearly to reflect their increasing ages.
They say they are too old but they are happy enough to carry on eating what’s in the pouches each day.
Good fun.
Sugar free ones ?
Tried those but just missing the point .
You know your gettin old when wishing for a higher toilet seat, screw caps are to tight, even worse if covered in cellophone that has to be cut of with a knife as you cant find the perforations even with your glases. 4k looks like 1080, 1080 looks like 720 and anything less thsn that is not worth watching.You stop listning and buying curent music and you develope a taste for Blues and Jazz and think Nina Simone is one of greatest singer songwriters you have ever seen or heard (because she is )and she happily sits in your music collection along side Bowie, Nirvana, Radiohead, The Stone Roses, and Springsteen to name but a few icons of the past 40 odd years. Your happy to pootle along in the left lane on the motorway and sagely shake your head at the idiots driving like banshees not 10yds behind the car in front. why dont they set out 10 minutes earlier you hear your self in your head, bloody hell i am getting old you think and so it goes. On the watch front you realise you have been a member of TZ for 10 years and can remeber the going rate for a sub was about three and a half Grand with 2 or three a week croping up in sales corner,how times have changed !!
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When you remember the time when cereal boxes had little toys in them.
Hell no, could not think of anything worse - full sugar variety!
You bend or crouch down and various joints pop and crack along with the involuntary noises I seem to make.
Take more interest in my fibre intake
Can't believe what passes as "music" these days.
Buy clothes that are classic and harder wearing rather than that fashion nonsense.
Realise its not all about cashing the money, family time gets more important.
Realise your own parents are not immortal.
Losing hair where it should be and sprouting it where it shouldn't.
Think about chopping in that sporty car for something not quite a low to the floor and a bit more comfortable.
And I'm only 45, jesus wept.
When the forum you frequent has threads about slippers and dressing gowns ... ;)
You find yourself owning a specific piece of 1/2" wooden dowelling rod that is kept in the shed and is used exclusively for stirring paint.
Old large flat head screw driver. Can open the paint and then stir. The time saving is huge lol
This captures it all, I suppose. Well done (also for leaving out the long list of physical discomforts...)
Yep, even better, it was passed on to me by my mother, and passed to her by her Dad. Goodness knows how many layers of paint are on it now, it looks very odd. Makes me smile thinking of them both when I stir paint.
^^^ This!
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The family and friends children are at college, university or getting married. It seemed like yesterday they were babies.
...you know your secrets will be safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.
...you can live without sex but not without glasses and/or dentures.
You know you’re getting old when.....
The music charts hold no interest at all for you
When documentaries are part of your weekly tv watching
When you have no idea who the celebrities are in reality tv shows
When you recall the C word actually having impact as an offensive swear word
When sportswear was worn for sport
When you knew your neighbours
When you look at a woman in a porn mag spread across a bed and think - that duvet looks lovely
When opening a packet of biscuits becomes a fight with cellophane and you normally lose
I could go on....
Lol
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................... you try winding your quartz watch.
................... you dribble a lot! (From ...............)
................... you don't know how to work things in a "modern" car!
................... you find the glasses you were looking for are on the top of your head and then can't remember what you couldn't see in the first place.
................... errrrrrrrrrr! What was I typing?
You know you are getting old when you think a Jubilee bracelet on a Rolex looks good.....
When one of your mates becomes a grandfather.
When.....
Enquire about electric mountain bike
"Mature" becomes a popular search term
I always fancied a Harley
New style Jean's cant get past your calves
Turn it down ! Shouted regularly at random closed bedroom doors
Well, that's gone 10 o'clock
Etc etc
When you have shoes older than your first born (currently at Uni).
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
...when aches and pains are not the result of football or tree climbing but instead from sleeping in the wrong position / sitting for too long :)
as above , my back has been wrecked for almost 2 weeks and shows no signs of getting better anytime soon -i'd like to say i did it by lifting an heroic amount of weight at the gym but it was done getting clothes out the washing machine.
You daren’t start watching a film after 9pm as you know you will not be seeing the end before you go to bed.
You see a thread titled "Haemorrhoids" and think, I'll have a look at that.
Your shoes are at university?? Oxfords, presumably!
First time I tore my knee apart the doctor explained what I’d done, said it was a classic footballer injury. He seemed disappointed when I told him I done it turning round having just put some food in our fridge!
When the ever increasing number of pills seem to get smaller every time you renew your prescription, so that you can never find the blighters when they spring out of the blister pack and land on the floor somewhere.
Then you have the dilemma of deciding whether to have a mismatch in your pill quantities, or bin the "spare" ones to help with remembering whether you've taken them or not.............
When a 'good nights sleep' means getting up less than twice for the loo during the night...
Just got my first pair of “readers”
I’ve just had to go varifocal.
Gift of sight is amazing, need to unteach myself to peer over the top of the glasses now.
Wish I did it years ago vs keep denying it.
Also wish they made the lenses the correct size as had to send them back & no longer have said gift! Lenses kept popping out when cleaning them.
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Been wearing those for years now, very handy indeed.
Be careful walking down stairs in them until you get used to them.
When you become a (step)-grandfather and your grandchild in 10 years time will be the same age as your wife's daughter was, when you met your wife!
When you get on the floor to play with your grandson's Christmas presents to "test" them and can't get up afterwards!
Well my memory's so bad now that I have re watched every episode of the bridge and could only remember about 10% (if that),I could not remember the endings.
In a way its a plus I guess?
... there is absolutely nothing I want for Christmas.
Thanks, had found that! Slightly weird moving my head more vs simply flicking my eye, but worth the sacrifice of a subtle glance at something for being able to read both a phone & watch tv.
Can start learning the guitar again, as found I could either see the screen with directions, or my fingers on strings but never both clearly.
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Welcome to my world.
When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night
When you think the new captain Birdseye looks younger than you.
When you have more hair coming out of your ears and nose than you have on your head.
You know you're getting old when you pick up something heavy and your son rushes over and takes it off you.
When you have to use a convenient hedge because your house is 150m too far up the road.
"Well they would say that ... wouldn't they!"
When you consider that it’s 38 years since the Falkland war, 54 years since England won the World Cup, and 42 years since you passed your driving test.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oi........
Oh alright......
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
You know you’re getting old when.....
....you need a spotting scope to see if there's even anything there.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Bedroom antics require a 24 hour recovery period where the most often uttered phrase is "off ya bugger" while rubbing a hip.
You buy uggs because they're slippers you can nip to the shop in.
The glasses you wear for distance vision screw your close up vision so reading anything on a mobile is a fiasco of glasses up glasses down glasses up glasses down.
You have to turn the music down in the car if you need to concentrate on directions.
So this.
And no, varifocals are NOT an option. They’re for old people......
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
When one of your friend's sons, who you remember as a fairly disorganised teenage boy, has his first book reviewed in the FT.
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In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
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