I’ve started to admire hanging basket displays in pub gardens and I’m actually contemplating a SAGA cruise. Shoot me now…
You’ll need to come closer. My eyesight, and aim, aren’t what they used to be.
Willy.
Getting a mile down the lane in the car to do the weekly shop, noticing a worrying absence in the hip pocket area and realising that my wallet is back in the house.
…when shop assistants start calling you “dear” instead of “sir” and “madam” and people give up their seat for you on the train…
Especially when you are glad to accept it gratefully…
Visiting the UK after decades away and exclaiming in the newsagent, “Crikey I remember when a pack of Polos was 10p!”
Telling people you liked “Only Fools and Horses” and “Father Ted” growing up, only for some smart ass to reply, “My grandad used to love those too. He was a old racist git by the way.”
10p? Surely you mean 3d.
Do they still make those fruit flavoured ones?
I’m not that old but missing 25 years of intervening British culture and then being dropped back in makes you feel like a dinosaur.
Though I do remember 5p being called a shilling by people in the villiage .
That reminds me of another thing that makes me feel old.
I can remember when “thruppenny bits” ONLY referred to coinage.
I think British culture has changed radically in the last 5-10 years let alone the last 25.
Blddy youngsters.
To emigrate to another country is, to some degree, to be frozen in time.
Or the Isle Wight.
Such comments do well with my wife. She understands the implied message that it means that we stay together until dead us separates.
Romantic, innit?!
Bermuda shorts, black socks and dress shoes.
Stannah have now developed a stairlift so fast that you get upstairs before you forget what you went up. for.
Hmmm…hearing the news today, I’m reminded that none of us have that long to go, relatively speaking. Sure as hell I won’t make 96, nor particularly want to…which curiously puts me at ease with whatever age I find myself to be.
That happens to me now and I don’t even need a stairlift!
At certain times of year that is proper work attire in Hamilton. Even for the young!