You know you’re getting older when……

[Busaholic]

I may well have mentioned this before but going upstairs and when at the top having no idea why I went up. Usually the answer comes quickly enough when I have descended back down the damn stairs. Waste of energy !.

Even worse when you remember you moved into a bungalow last year.

 

[PeterC]

Only this morning did I suffer from the latest of my faux pas, having enjoyed a lie-in until 09:00, I awoke, got dressed and decided to take a long walk to the GP surgery to hand in my prescription script and lo and behold, the building was locked....today is a Bank Holiday..

Since retirement I regularly forget about bank holidays.

 

[AM9]

Since retirement I regularly forget about bank holidays.

That's true, indeed it's happened to me twice, once when I retired, where my wife would remind me that it was (her) day off, and now she is retired we both forget them!

 

[dangie]

… once when I retired, where my wife would remind me that it was (her) day off…

That a problem with retirement. You never get days off

 

[Howardh]

It's just occured to me, but for a while now bus drivers have waited until I've sat down.

I don't have a walking stick and my body more or less is fully functional!!

 

[Gloster]

You keep feeling astounded that the young of today, which they presumably are, have a habit of binning important correspondance (including their replies) after dealing with it, rather than keeping it for reference until the matter is definitely sorted out. I read all too frequently in the Disputes and Prosecutions Forum of people who have thrown away paperwork to do with ticket irregularities almost as soon as they get it or have replied to it, not because they can’t be bothered, but because they don’t seem to think it important. Is it that they are so used to everything being on computer that they think that something on paper is unimportant or do they automatically think that there will always be another copy on the computer?

 

[Dai Corner]

You keep feeling astounded that the young of today, which they presumably are, have a habit of binning important correspondance (including their replies) after dealing with it, rather than keeping it for reference until the matter is definitely sorted out. I read all too frequently in the Disputes and Prosecutions Forum of people who have thrown away paperwork to do with ticket irregularities almost as soon as they get it or have replied to it, not because they can’t be bothered, but because they don’t seem to think it important. Is it that they are so used to everything being on computer that they think that something on paper is unimportant or do they automatically think that there will always be another copy on the computer?

I must confess that I have the best part of 50 years corresponding 'filed'. I could probably tell you what my gas bill was in October 1995 or how much I earned including overtime in June 1982 and how much the deductions were. It comes of working in an office in my first job.

I have made efforts to become more paperless in the last few years.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I must confess that I have the best part of 50 years corresponding 'filed'. I could probably tell you what my gas bill was in October 1995 or how much I earned including overtime in June 1982 and how much the deductions were. It comes of working in an office in my first job.

I have made efforts to become more paperless in the last few years.

My memory is not as good as it once was, but I remember "seven years" being quoted for the holding of certain documents. Can anyone assist, as that might apply to business not private paperwork.

 

[Dai Corner]

My memory is not as good as it once was, but I remember "seven years" being quoted for the holding of certain documents. Can anyone assist, as that might apply to business not private paperwork.

I think it is seven years for financial records.

I once worked in the pensions and life assurance industry when it was much longer; probably seven years after the death of any possible or actual beneficiary.

 

[Gloster]

I have a feeling that it is the last seven full financial years. As we are now in the 2024-2024 year, we should keep back to the beginning of the 2017-2018 financial year.

 

[swt_passenger]

I have a feeling that it is the last seven full financial years. As we are now in the 2024-2024 year, we should keep back to the beginning of the 2017-2018 financial year.

I don’t think it’s 7 years for everyone, if your tax affairs are fairly straightforward, eg if you only have one employment source of income, and you’re not a higher rate taxpayer and usually not on self assessment, then it’s only a couple of years needed. But if you are self employed, or subject to routine annual self assessment, then the relevant records do need to be kept for the 7 years.

But having said that I still have a lifetime‘s P60s filed in a binder, well over 50 of them, although one of them went missing back in the 80s. Just an interesting historic record really…

 

[oldman]

For self-assessment HMRC says 22 months after the end of the tax year concerned, or 15 months from when you submit the return if later. Longer for the self-employed.

 

[Peter Sarf]

You keep feeling astounded that the young of today, which they presumably are, have a habit of binning important correspondance (including their replies) after dealing with it, rather than keeping it for reference until the matter is definitely sorted out. I read all too frequently in the Disputes and Prosecutions Forum of people who have thrown away paperwork to do with ticket irregularities almost as soon as they get it or have replied to it, not because they can’t be bothered, but because they don’t seem to think it important. Is it that they are so used to everything being on computer that they think that something on paper is unimportant or do they automatically think that there will always be another copy on the computer?

My first thought was are they used to computerised records (emails) !. But there does seem to be less concern about things coming back to bite you amongst the younger generation and they seem kind of less interested in facts - an attention span decline springs to mind. But then maybe us oldies are more cautious because me have already learnt the hard way ?.

 

[AM9]

My first thought was are they used to computerised records (emails) !. But there does seem to be less concern about things coming back to bite you amongst the younger generation and they seem kind of less interested in facts - an attention span decline springs to mind. But then maybe us oldies are more cautious because me have already learnt the hard way ?.

I think it's a age thing that has a different material focus with each generation. In my youth, it was the acceptance of junk food, - mainly due to the post-war influx of US culture and it's glamourisation in pop music and TV. There was little consideration of the food values of burgers, pizzas, noodles, confectionery and sugary drinks. That coupled with the general teen attitude that parent's advice was of another age and as such was to be rebelled against. Then there was the seeds of their addiction to motorcycles (including scooters) and cars in movies where teenagers, probably of middle-class parents, drove around in large cars as essential parts of their social development and 'becoming adults'. This was in an age where the annual road death toll exceeded 8000! Essentially, until they had experienced some of the negative aspects of adolscence, advice and warnings from mature adults were unwelcome and duly ignored.
Fortunately, a significant proportion of baby boomers have witnessed significant damage done by and to their children and now their grandchildren that they see the need for premanent change of culture in respect of health and the environment.

 

[Peter Sarf]

I think it's a age thing that has a different material focus with each generation. In my youth, it was the acceptance of junk food, - mainly due to the post-war influx of US culture and it's glamourisation in pop music and TV. There was little consideration of the food values of burgers, pizzas, noodles, confectionery and sugary drinks. That coupled with the general teen attitude that parent's advice was of another age and as such was to be rebelled against. Then there was the seeds of their addiction to motorcycles (including scooters) and cars in movies where teenagers, probably of middle-class parents, drove around in large cars as essential parts of their social development and 'becoming adults'. This was in an age where the annual road death toll exceeded 8000! Essentially, until they had experienced some of the negative aspects of adolscence, advice and warnings from mature adults were unwelcome and duly ignored.
Fortunately, a significant proportion of baby boomers have witnessed significant damage done by and to their children and now their grandchildren that they see the need for premanent change of culture in respect of health and the environment.

Ah yes, you mention food or rather diet. I have more than once come across the statement that during World War Two and into the late 1950s the UK diet was at its best - due to rationing !. And boy did the world throw away that common sense in its desire to put control, albeit sensible, behind us. I suppose one of the rewards for enduring the war and all it dangers was the freedom to ruin our health !.

 

[Gloster]

When adverts get you confused. Every other time I look at something on YouTube it tends to start with an advert for Wicks computer thingies. I thought they were a builders merchant.

 

[Howardh]

All of us of a certain age can enjoy tomorrow.

Parliament goes back. Schools go back. Commuters clogged up in the congestion.

It's HOLIDAYS!!!! (For us!!) Yes, you know you're getting old when September is the best month of the year!!

 

[Jamesrob637]

All of us of a certain age can enjoy tomorrow.

Parliament goes back. Schools go back. Commuters clogged up in the congestion.

It's HOLIDAYS!!!! (For us!!) Yes, you know you're getting old when September is the best month of the year!!

Most kids resume Tuesday or Wednesday. Tomorrow is an inset day for the majority.

 

[Howardh]

Most kids resume Tuesday or Wednesday. Tomorrow is an inset day for the majority.

True, but the teachers are back!

 

[Ashley Hill]

When you’re sat watching the Kenny Everett show and realising that the girls in Hot Gossip are now not only well into their mid sixties but possibly some of them travelled to school on steam hauled trains!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When you are ignored by people selling The Big Issue.

 

[dangie]

When you’re sat watching the Kenny Everett show and realising that the girls in Hot Gossip are now not only well into their mid sixties but possibly some of them travelled to school on steam hauled trains!

… and you may have sat exactly where they sat…..

 

[Howardh]

When you’re sat watching the Kenny Everett show and realising that the girls in Hot Gossip are now not only well into their mid sixties but possibly some of them travelled to school on steam hauled trains!

I'm sure there was a film with St Trinian's on a steam train? Also I doubt Hot Gossip's routines could be shown before the watershed now, and possibly not even after!! But they outshone the boring-as-dishwater Pans' People on the BBC! But it would have bene nice to have seen some male dancers in skimpy gear; don't recall any at all in those days??

 

[Calthrop]

I'm sure there was a film with St Trinian's on a steam train?

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery, if I'm right -- shot on the Longmoor Military Railway. I being rather a miserable killjoy, I found those sequences grotesque, preposterous, and not even slightly funny; others' mileages will no doubt vary.

 

[Killingworth]

What's a mangle?

The one used by my grandmother had rollers worn thin in the centre. "Been through the mangle" Crushed

 

[Ediswan]

I'm sure there was a film with St Trinian's on a steam train? Also I doubt Hot Gossip's routines could be shown before the watershed now, and possibly not even after!! But they outshone the boring-as-dishwater Pans' People on the BBC! But it would have bene nice to have seen some male dancers in skimpy gear; don't recall any at all in those days??

Hot Gossip had both male and female dancers. Their routines, on Kenny Everett re-runs, are not as salacious as memory might suggest.

 

[Trackman]

What's a mangle?

The one used by my grandmother had rollers worn thin in the centre. "Been through the mangle" Crushed

My Auntie had a twin-tub with a mangle. Twin tubs are actually still a thing! sans mangle though!

 

[ian1944]

And before the mangle would partially-dry the clothes, they were agitated in the tub by a posser.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When you remember the comic called The Topper.

 

[dangie]

When you remember the comic called The Topper.

And The Beezer