When you see someone in a photo and think "he looks familiar" then realise that it is a son of friends who you have known since friends was younger than son is now. Yes he looks very much like his dad but once I had sussed that I could see his mum in him too.
In my defence I was a teenager when I first met his parents and they were not married yet.
I am a driving instructor. I was recently on a lesson with a lady in her 30s. I pointed out the house where Ronnie Corbett lived. Her response was “Who’s Ronnie Corbett?”
I am a driving instructor. I was recently on a lesson with a lady in her 30s. I pointed out the house where Ronnie Corbett lived. Her response was “Who’s Ronnie Corbett?”
After listening to some Goon Shows recently I remembered my parents disapproving of me listening to the early broadcasts. Mid 50s, it must have been, and I still love the Goons. It was my parents' fault - they had given me a second-hand wartime utility 3-valve radio.
I was a teensy bit young for the Goons. But I remember Life with the Lyons, Educating Archie, The Clitheroe Kid and The Navy Lark. Largely because there wasn't a lot else to listen to in the way of comedy. But the ones I really found amusing were Take It From Here and Beyond Our Ken/Round the Horne.
I. remember Forces Family Favourites and the Navy Lark on the radio on a Sunday lunchtime and High Chapparal, The Black and White Minstrel Show and Morecombe and Wise on the Tele
I met up with an old uni friend yesterday, she is 2 years younger than me but doesn't wear glasses and colours her hair. Someone at the station thought I was her mother. I feel VERY old now 😬😆
Obviously one of the signs of getting old is when you make cultural references that you think are broadly contemporary, or at least people will get them. And then someone reminds you that they were decades ago, and that there are people over 18 who will have ni idea.
Eldest Beaky grandchild is in the middle of her GCSE exams.
I so clearly remember her mother doing the same almost 30 years ago.
I don't feel this old but the proof, I fear, is irrefutable!
I just heard someone on the radio say something about working on the Croydon Tramlink “many years ago”. It can’t possibly be many years ago, as the Tramlink only opened in 2000 … oh, hang on a sec
New bus stations have been announced for Bradford and Wakefield. It seems only recently that new ones were opened- but then I did leave Yorkshire 12 years ago and the new ones were built at some point probably long before that.
I remember the exact moment when I realised that my eyes could no longer focus on objects very close up. I was standing on the roof of a helicopter (in the hangar...) trying to look down into a component of the rotating controls of the main rotor (it was a Bell 412). I had always been proud of my ability to focus on anything from distant to a few inches from my nose. It was nearly 40 years ago, but that memory stayed with me.
Yesterday I read that Val McDiarmid has just turned 70. I didn't think she was that old I remarked I thought she was only about ten years older than me. Oh, wait.
We have a new member of staff at work. She's eighteen, so I have to keep mentally translating cultural references from before she was born (like comparing using the shop tannoy to Hi-Di-Hi!)
Thanks that was interesting, not what I imagined at all - I didn’t realise it had anything to do with tennis. It looked to be as if it were played on a smaller court ?
The court is about the size of a badminton court. It's primarily played in doubles other than at the professional level. The port originated in 1965. It's the fastest growing sport in North America. I took it up 3 years ago after 50 years of playing tennis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickleball
A good one dropped on us this morning... Had to renew the travel insurance, a necessity, especially if you have to go to the USA. The annual premium for both of us was almost as much as the fares from Toronto to Glasgow a few weeks ago. That's what you get for both being 75+ and healthy. It's important - we have friends and family in the UK who can no longer afford the insurance for coming to visit us.
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In my defence I was a teenager when I first met his parents and they were not married yet.
Maybe she had just overlooked him?
I am as old as the Doctor - a few months older actually. And given that he is over 900, I think that classifies me as old....
Best not, given what the judge said when you were done for it.
Sigh.
Historical walks are not good for historical heels.
What *is* pickle ball, and what does it have to with gherkins ?
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I so clearly remember her mother doing the same almost 30 years ago.
I don't feel this old but the proof, I fear, is irrefutable!
Thanks that was interesting, not what I imagined at all - I didn’t realise it had anything to do with tennis. It looked to be as if it were played on a smaller court ?