FUN:- You know when your getting old.........when

[Potstubsdustbins]

When you look at your bedside table and where stood the aftershaves and deodorants stands......... Lotions, potions and pills.

[Lumpy]

When your laughter lines become wrinkles.

[skeggijon]

You know you're getting old when your stepdaughter asks 'did you have electricity when you were my age?'

[DannyRam]

When ones golf partners call me the coffin dodger then argue who will carry the defib in case I collapse!!!
And when your ears need more haircuts than your head..............

[bramble]

You know you're getting old when you have to make a list of the things you need to ask the doctor, because you can't remember why you decided to visit her in the first place.

[Potstubsdustbins]

#618 Steady on Jon I knew plenty of homes that only had gas lighting when I were now't but a lad and one pub out in the sticks near Haywood Oaks that had paraffin lamps with attached mantle.

[Thelma Sanders]

Yup, after school I used to do the shopping for an old dear next door - she still had gas lights, and cooked on an old coal fired black lead range.
Come to think of it that's not much different to me putting the kettle on my wood burner

[SusieG]

As a kid we had paraffin heaters dotted about the house for heating. The smell takes me right back there. Used to get 'snow' inside my bedroom windows. Used to get dressed under my bed covers to delay getting out into the cold ... Had to wait an hour for the immersion heater to heat enough water for a chilly bath
Family holiday in Wales in a real basic caravan, gas lit lights that had mantles that crumbled if you touched them!! And I wouldn't change a thing!

[Bigmallly]

..................You had to use an A-Z to get around..............no such things as SatNav's.

[Bill HH]

But it was not all bad, we had bread and milk delivered daily, someone filled your car with petrol and asked if you wanted your oil or tyre pressures checked. Petrol was something like 20p a gallon, the AA and RAC would salute you if you were a member and you could often drive miles without seeing another car. Our local station had parrafin lamps and a coal fire in the waiting room. And chips were 6 old pence a portion (2.5 new pence).

[Bigmallly]

But it was not all bad, we had bread and milk delivered daily, someone filled your car with petrol and asked if you wanted your oil or tyre pressures checked. Petrol was something like 20p a gallon, the AA and RAC would salute you if you were a member and you could often drive miles without seeing another car. Our local station had parrafin lamps and a coal fire in the waiting room. And chips were 6 old pence a portion (2.5 new pence).

Wow!...........That is old.................

[Greenleaves]

At what point in your post did the dinosaurs appear Bill

[Bill HH]

At what point in your post did the dinosaurs appear Bill

Pterodactyls were the worst, they would rip the roof off your soft top car in an instant.

[JanieB]

Nowt wrong with paraffin lamps. I keep one ready for power cuts which are nowadays, thankfully, rather rare, but do still happen. I keep mine primed and ready and sometimes use it rather than electric light for it's softer light. It's safer than candles.

It was a wedding present to my grandparents and is rather attractive.

[Bren In Pots]

Bill we've had the same milk man for the past 38 years not sure what will happen to his round when he retires though.