What I see in the mirror....

Goodness, gracesmum, I've always been short-sighted! What does that say about me.....

I was always told myopia was nature's way of helping us to cope with what is in the mirror!

My Mother definitely, and it is usually steamed up and without my glasses...so, a fine looking woman!?

I've just looked and I don't know who it is but she doesn't look too happy!

If I see my great grandma but hear my mother - who am I?

I see my dad, a bit. It's the eyes, I think. DD1 says I haven't changed since I was ten years old, except for my face being a bit "looser at the seams", so to speak! I know which photograph she has in mind when she says that – one of me up a tree, standing on a branch wielding my home-made bow'n'arrow. Talking of which, DH has booked himslef, DD3 and me onto a three-evening archery course in May. Looking forward to that.

Will try and dig out a more recent photo (from about five years ago) which 'does the eyes' and post it on my profile, but I need some lunch first.

I actually use a enlarging mirror sometimes - to pluck any intrusive hair on my chin- bahhh. THAT is truly scary.

NEVER look in the mirror wearing lenses. Dim the lights in the bathroom-they are all wretched halogen things put in by male bathroom designer so I leave them until they all die (and I look quite good in the dim with no lenses)and get the electrician to replace them-cue pitying looks but I no longer feel happy up a ladder with a dark bathroom and electricity at my fingertips.

Anagram ...and steamed-up can be totally flattering

Yes, SOOP, I've found that! And if the mirror's a bit dusty, I look even better....

Depends on whether or not I'm wearing my specs. With, I'm lined with dark circles under the eyes. Without, I'm all soft-focus and not so bad, all things considered

I wish I could see my mother, as she was amazingly beautiful right into her 80s!

What I see in the mirror is a bit of a stranger, I'm afraid.

Oh dear is anyone seeing their dads men on here need not answer this one

I see my Mum too!

To my dismay its my mother!

My dad and I'm a girl !!!!!

I too see my mother despite having the bone structure of my father - baffling!

My Mother - where have I gone!

Here's and odd thing - which I wrote a rather long poem about - I used to sit at my mum's flat in the years before she died and while she talked I could see myself in her mirror - and all the time I could see myself as 25....and since she went, I can see myself as an older woman....I just couldn't do it in relation to her - weird.

Thanks butter

i don't look.

I see you glass.

I still see me, but an older me, in fact its my Mum looking back at me.... my eyes are a mirror of the life behind me and are hoping to a long life ahead of me. I see things there that have happened in the past and I see the hope of joy to the last.