Old dogs and children and watermelon wine

My immediate reaction to this was G & T, red wine and malt whisky.
Better go and have another go !

I've recently bought a hot water bottle. Have a choice of covers for it from when the kids were little; a snowman, a dog or a teddy bear. Using the teddy bear at the moment. I always have one when I'm oop north but decided I needed one down'ere as well [getting soft I am].

See, I knew I'd be back when I saw something someone else had written.

I love weather too flower. Especially wild weather outside.

nature of any kind, hot water bottle (just love cuddling mine) I have always loved babies so that doesn't count, I just LOVE weather the worse the better
(especially when I am tucked up indoors)

Gardening and visiting National Trust properties. Although both of my children discovered both at an early age. Have to agree about babies; no interest in them whatsoever when I was young and when mine were little was only interested in my own. Now grin at all of them. Vivid memory of childhood is taking Spot, my dog out in a pram and people stopping to look at 'the baby' . Jings; wouldn't it have been funny if we'd walked past each other with our 'babies'. We could have stopped and swapped notes.

I have always adored babies. I used to make our cat be my baby. He was very obliging. Would lie on his back in my dolls' pram and let me push him up the road.

OMG what is it with elderly older people and babies??

When I used to take my mum shopping it took for ever to get her down the high street. I'd see an advancing buggy and have to shove her in a shop doorway where she'd probably meet another one coming out. She'd bend over and coo, not realising she was blocking the pavement and the poor mother couldn't move forward without running her over. Supermarket checkouts were even worse as there was no escape.

One thing I can say for sure is that no matter how lovely babies are you will NEVER find me clucking over any of them.

Unless they belong to our clan of course

My children. I never thought I was particularly maternal, but it seems I was a slow starter! The love just keeps on growing.

Grandchildren

absent Found your thread title captivating.....

Nature, nature and nature, in all it's many forms. Trust. Friendships.

Babies for me too. I was indifferent to them until I had my own and even then I didn't much like other people's! However, now I can't resist peeking into prams. Babies usually smile back at me - they know a granny when they see one.

Time to read whenever and whatever I like. A leisurely getting up in the mornings. Not feeling obliged to stay late at parties. Babies.

Sometimes I think I enjoy the invisibility that "maturity" seems to have brought with it. Including the fact that I can hum/mutter to myself as I go round Waitrose and no one bats an eyelid.

Babies - I shuddered at the thought of having to admire babies in my youth, and now I go all goo-ey over them. Tea - never drank it in my younger years, but now I enjoy a perfectly made cup of tea in a white china cup several times a day. Everything else I cared for in my youth, too!

Having read the OP again, I don't think "treasure most" really applies to red wine and celery!
I shall go away and rethink!

So far, I can only come up with red wine and celery!
Plenty of things that I used to like but don't any longer though.

I suspect this thread will have people coming back time and again as they think of something else or read what someone else has put.

On that note, I agree with Grannyknot (I seem to be following you around and agreeing with you GK) time for me, plus an absorbing book and cooking.

Iam64 I also do that with babies and then tell myself it's because the babies are trying to socialise with me.

Time just to be, is the obvious one for me, a comfortable bed, and a really good pair of hiking boots.

This is a challenge, makes me realise that the things I love and those I don't love have changed little over the years. I suppose babies would be top of the list, I never disliked babies, but I did think my grannies were a bit dotty, the way the cooed and smiled over any baby in the vicinity. I do that now.

My 3 things are all food related, I'm not greedy, honest!

Hmmmn..... a small whisky with a dash of water [couldn't stand the stuff years ago]
nuts, for some reason I hated them when younger but now eat them a lot.
marmalade [I love marmalade toast and have it for breakfast most days.]