Well I've decided I'm not going to be really old until I get to the age DM was when she passed on (93!). But I knew I was getting older when I couldn't get up from the playground after getting down to tie a child's shoelace!
I look at the fashions - mini-skirts, flared trousers, flicked up eyeliner and think that I wore them once - but never again as I don't want to repeat myself.
When I spend the day out as recently, in London - an early start & a long day - and then have to 'recover' for the next few days, unable to commit to anything more taxing than a long lie down & a good book
I went to my uncle's funeral and his granddaughters were looking at his photo albums., They were asking me who people in the photos were. I suddenly realised that I was the 'senior generation' of that branch of my family and was expected to know everything!