I'm getting old because

[brixtonbrood]

The kids need their passports renewing, Small has just taken her first sets of SATS.

When I try to look at paperwork with my glasses on I involuntarily tilt my head up and squint down underneath my glasses - I think I need bifocals.

He went to the barbers and they offered to shave his ears.

We are no longer sleeping on a floor level futon.

In a few weeks time there will no longer be a single wall in the entire house which I have painted myself.

I miss Woolworths, god how I miss Woolworths. Every thing I reach out for reminds me that once it was here and now it's gone - cutlery, mugs, bins, bath mats, stationery, toys, school uniforms. To the growing list of Things You Can No Longer Buy In Clapham Or Brixton I can now add black poster paint, which we needed for Small's school project. Brixton Market has the uncanny ability to supply everything you could possibly want in the whole world (what is that fish? why are the pigs trotters that colour? what do they do to Pandan cake that makes it stay bouncy for months?) except for the precise thing you actually do want.

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[the-magician.livejournal.com]

"Growing Up/Older" includes all the above, plus

1) taking down the posters you put up with blutack and tape and thumbtacks and replacing them with pictures in frames (sometimes the same poster in a clipframe, but usually something more gentle and boring!)

2) deciding it is time to have all matching cutlery and all matching crockery (unless you started "clear" at some point and were given a complete set of starter cutlery ... around my mother's house there were so many mixed bits of cutlery that she could outfit any of her son's with a "set" of mismatched knives and forks!)

3) Using the right glass for the right drink (even if you nearly always managed to have a couple of wine glasses around, you still occasionally ended up using the juice glasses or a tea mug!)

4) having mugs with at least two different corporate logos on them for companies you've actually worked for!

5) having done the "sanded wood floors look cool" and then realised "but rugs and carpets are softer on the feet and a lot less noisy!"

I'm sure there are more!

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

5) but then realised that sanded wooden floors are much easier to clean when the kids do something appalling on them

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

At the risk of skipping to the punchline of Stewart Lee's routine about Woolworths, MFI and Zavvi going into administration in the same week: I miss Zavvi...

[pureofthought.livejournal.com]

Being told by a doctor "it's to be expected at your age".

Thinking "that doctor's surely too young to be qualified".

Being told that technology you rely on and use every day (email) is only for old people. (Young people use Facebook/IM.)

Feeling envious when someone the same age is asked for ID in a bar.