You know you’re getting older when……

[Ivor]

I’m just thankful I wake up. Also I’m thankful I go to bed each night.
At my age the bathroom mirror is your best friend. See your reflection that’s another day you’ve ticked off

You’ve summed up how I feel nowadays, re the mirror the last couple of years I realise how I’ve aged even further

 

[dangie]

You’ve summed up how I feel nowadays, re the mirror the last couple of years I realise how I’ve aged even further

As we get old(er) I'm not sure if we get more miserable, or that we see more of what we think is wrong with everything.

 

[Ken X]

When me dad died many years ago some well meaning person said "don't worry, you'll see him again one day" Looking in the full length mirror at the hairdressers recently I realised what they meant.

 

[Ivor]

As we get old(er) I'm not sure if we get more miserable, or that we see more of what we think is wrong with everything.

I’m claiming both

When me dad died many years ago some well meaning person said "don't worry, you'll see him again one day" Looking in the full length mirror at the hairdressers recently I realised what they meant.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Being suddenly subject to falls at home.

 

[nw1]

I saw a few pages of a Radio Times from 1973 on the web. Every programme was like it was on yesterday. The titles, cast, or the sports, presenters etc. Peter West introducing the cricket. I must have been 16 and I'm looking at it 50 years later.

Know what you mean. The equivalent when I was about the same age would have been Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell (sp?) doing the 6pm news and Michael Buerk at 9pm, and the likes of Ian McCaskill, Michael Fish, John Kettley and Bill Giles doing the weather.
Again, all seems like yesterday.

Talking of which, you know when you're getting old when you remember the BBC nine o'clock news.

Slightly more recent, but these days you're probably getting old if you can remember Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight.

 

[Gloster]

Know what you mean. The equivalent when I was about the same age would have been Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell (sp?) doing the 6pm news and Michael Buerk at 9pm, and the likes of Ian McCaskill, Michael Fish, John Kettley and Bill Giles doing the weather.
Again, all seems like yesterday.

Talking of which, you know when you're getting old when you remember the BBC nine o'clock news.

Slightly more recent, but these days you're probably getting old if you can remember Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight.

At least in those days all the newsreaders and weathermen (they were all men) just read the news or told you what the weather might be like. Nowadays we seem to have to hear everything about their love-life or holidays: nobody asked Bert Foord what he had been doing over the weekend.

 

[Peter Sarf]

At least in those days all the newsreaders and weathermen (they were all men) just read the news or told you what the weather might be like. Nowadays we seem to have to hear everything about their love-life or holidays: nobody asked Bert Foord what he had been doing over the weekend.

This is true. A lot more padding, waffle and trailers on BBC nowadays. Probably training us to get accustomed to adverts.....

Being suddenly subject to falls at home.

Ouch. That means go to the doctors as soon as possible - seriously.

Or lay off the malt whisky / ale - hopefully.

 

[Busaholic]

At least in those days all the newsreaders and weathermen (they were all men) just read the news or told you what the weather might be like. Nowadays we seem to have to hear everything about their love-life or holidays: nobody asked Bert Foord what he had been doing over the weekend.

Just as well they didn't ask Frank Bough

 

[dangie]

At least in those days all the newsreaders and weathermen (they were all men) just read the news or told you what the weather might be like...

Never understand why the first half of a weather forecast consists of the presenters saying what the previous days weather was like.

I bloody know what it was like, I was in it…..

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Never understand why the first half of a weather forecast consists of the presenters saying what the previous days weather was like.

That'll be the only part of the 'forecast' that they've likely got right?!

 

[D6130]

weathermen (they were all men)

Barbara Edwards?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Wincey Willis (TV.am)

 

[AM9]

Wincey Willis (TV.am)

Jack Armstrong, (pic), my grandmother wouldn't believe a forecast from anyone else!

 

[Peter Sarf]

Hmm. Maybe you know your getting old when you take an interest in the weather forecast.

Cannot see the up and coming next generations being so weather concerned - they are less dependant on it. Everything is delivered to the front door including food - waste goes down that pipe. TV / Internet might be affected by a lack of wind/sun and a protracted lack of rain might affect that toilet. Seems the generation below me will use the car in favour of a ten minute walk even on a nice day. And then for exercise they join a gym - weather they then use that gym is not so definite. So I fear weather is irrelevant for the younger generation ?.

 

[Whistler40145]

When you remember televisions had tubes and couldn’t be hung on the wall

 

[D6130]

....or, If like me, when you remember when all 'television sets' were black-and-white and there were only two channels. (Apologies if we've had this one already....my memory doesn't go that far back!)

 

[Killingworth]

....or, If like me, when you remember when all 'television sets' were black-and-white and there were only two channels. (Apologies if we've had this one already....my memory doesn't go that far back!)

Two channels? Some of us recall the days of only one, and having to go next door to watch even that!

 

[Mag_seven]

....or, If like me, when you remember when all 'television sets' were black-and-white and there were only two channels. (Apologies if we've had this one already....my memory doesn't go that far back!)

You know your getting old when "your memory doesn't go that far back".

 

[D6130]

You know your getting old when "your memory doesn't go that far back".

It goes far enough back to remember black-and-white TV....but not far enough back to remember what I have or have not posted on this thread over the past few weeks.

 

[Busaholic]

It goes far enough back to remember black-and-white TV....but not far enough back to remember what I have or have not posted on this thread over the past few weeks.

I still have a portable B&W TV in my attic, last used in 1988 I believe.

 

[birchesgreen]

Hmm. Maybe you know your getting old when you take an interest in the weather forecast.

Cannot see the up and coming next generations being so weather concerned - they are less dependant on it. Everything is delivered to the front door including food - waste goes down that pipe. TV / Internet might be affected by a lack of wind/sun and a protracted lack of rain might affect that toilet. Seems the generation below me will use the car in favour of a ten minute walk even on a nice day. And then for exercise they join a gym - weather they then use that gym is not so definite. So I fear weather is irrelevant for the younger generation ?.

Or they have apps on their phones and can see the forecast any time.

 

[AM9]

Two channels? Some of us recall the days of only one, and having to go next door to watch even that!

Yes, I remember when the pace of TV was disctated by how long the potter's wheel ran or the time it took from Victoria to Brighton on a pre-war (39-45) 3rd rail EMU.

 

[Gloster]

Yes, I remember when the pace of TV was disctated by how long the potter's wheel ran or the time it took from Victoria to Brighton on a pre-war (39-45) 3rd rail EMU.

The Potter’s Wheel music, about 5 1/2 minutes long, was a piece by Charles Williams called ‘The Young Ballerina’. It was a subtle choice as there were quite a few points where it could easily be faded and it was pleasant, but not too catchy for what was an Interlude: they never did finish the pot, though. Charles Williams produced a number of pieces, including The Devil’s Galop (‘Dick Barton - Special Agent’) and the signature tune to Friday Night is Music Night, which is still going.

The London to Brighton music was Sabre Jet by David Hart, real name William Granville Chapman (1900-1968). Little more seems to be known about him.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The London to Brighton music was Sabre Jet by David Hart, real name William Granville Chapman (1900-1968). Little more seems to be known about him.

Died in August 1968 in the Isle of Wight apparently, but, other than that, he does seem to be something of mystery man.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I think that it was some time in the late 1960's / early 1970's when I first heard the tune "Sailing By" played as the introduction to the BBC Radio late-night shipping forecast and thinking it was just the music to fall asleep by.

 

[al78]

Never understand why the first half of a weather forecast consists of the presenters saying what the previous days weather was like.

I bloody know what it was like, I was in it…..

As an introduction and to put things into context, particularly if there has been significant/interesting weather in places.

Hmm. Maybe you know your getting old when you take an interest in the weather forecast.

Cannot see the up and coming next generations being so weather concerned - they are less dependant on it. Everything is delivered to the front door including food - waste goes down that pipe. TV / Internet might be affected by a lack of wind/sun and a protracted lack of rain might affect that toilet. Seems the generation below me will use the car in favour of a ten minute walk even on a nice day. And then for exercise they join a gym - weather they then use that gym is not so definite. So I fear weather is irrelevant for the younger generation ?.

I don't agree and the stats for car ownership don't support your assertions:

Car or vehicle ownership in the UK 2017, by age | Statista

British people aged 60 years and older were the age group with the highest share of car ownership, according to a 2017 Statista survey.

www.statista.com

"British people aged 60 years and older were the age group with the highest share of car ownership, according to a 2017 Statista survey. The most likely to buy a car were 18-29 year-olds, with 22 percent of respondents reporting they did not own a car yet, but were planning on purchasing one. The survey was conducted as part of Statista’s Global Consumer Survey on consumption and media usage in 49 different countries."

The use of a two tonne machine to do the equivalent of a 10 minute walk has got nothing to do with demograhics, it is to do with the car-centric attitude of the UK population, not helped by poor public transport, transport policies that have favoured motorists often at the expense of vulnerable road users, the silly assertion that cycling is dangerous (which is really an excuse, not a solid logical reason outside of extreme situations), and a general desire to live like Americans rather than Europeans, hence why we have some of the most congested roads in Europe.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Or they have apps on their phones and can see the forecast any time.

Eeeew, too much weather then !.

(What are these apps you speak of !).

The Potter’s Wheel music, about 5 1/2 minutes long, was a piece by Charles Williams called ‘The Young Ballerina’. It was a subtle choice as there were quite a few points where it could easily be faded and it was pleasant, but not too catchy for what was an Interlude: they never did finish the pot, though. Charles Williams produced a number of pieces, including The Devil’s Galop (‘Dick Barton - Special Agent’) and the signature tune to Friday Night is Music Night, which is still going.

The London to Brighton music was Sabre Jet by David Hart, real name William Granville Chapman (1900-1968). Little more seems to be known about him.

My bold. Crickey you have just stimulated a long dormant brain cell.

 

[dangie]

As an introduction and to put things into context, particularly if there has been significant/interesting weather in places...

Or to explain why the weather didn’t turn out to be what they said it was going to be

 

[Howardh]

Yes, I remember when the pace of TV was disctated by how long the potter's wheel ran or the time it took from Victoria to Brighton on a pre-war (39-45) 3rd rail EMU.

When either ITV or BBC was in closedown during the afternoons in the 60's they used to show "test" films, presumably for TV engineers to set the picture. I vividly remembered one about a little girl in Italy who couldn't go to the fair and had to work in dad's petrol station instead, with different characters appearing. In my kidhood we used to drive through Italy and it struck a chord!! Thought it had been lost and gone for ever, but....

...of course not!! If anyone of a certain age used to watch those transmission films, enjoy!!

I used the words "TV Test Transmissions films sixties" on youtube, and down the list was one from the USA entitled "Watch Out For Homosexuals". Ye gods...sometimes I thank the fact we're 60 years on from that! Mind you, back to the film and I so miss those days of petrol stations in the middle of nowhere rather than finding a Tesco or Morrison's.