Emma Watson aging

Never mind can't be a**ed! Haven't got the energy!

:-)

Katy

To be fair, she had paps waiting to get the first upskirt when she went out on her 18th birthday. I'm not surprised she can't wait to be too old for them to be interested in her to do that!

We are all ageing, otherwise we would still look like newborns

I can remember envying older women, can't you? I envied the glamorous sophisticated ones, who looked stylish and beautifully made up and most of all, confident. They knew what suited them and which clothes suited their shape. At her age, I was looking at those in their mid-thirties to 40s.

When I started my first job at the age of 16 in the mid 1960s, there was an older lady in the office where I worked. She was probably in her fifties, but as I was only 16 I could have got that wrong. I thought she was wonderful. She had a lovely figure and used to wear tight skirts, pastel sweaters and high heeled mules. She was very sophisticated and a lovely person too. All the young men who worked there used to fancy her.

I though my French teacher was the height of grownup sophistication. She rinsed her hair different colours, wore chic clothes and had studied at the Sorbonne.

Oh KatyK that sounds exactly like the older woman in the solicitor's office I first worked in. I thought she was so glamourous and sophisticated and I was impressed that she could afford to wear different clothes every day. She was one of the partners' secretaries and was seconded to the other partner once to take details in a risqué divorce that was deemed too damaging for our young ears. She was a lovely person too, she helped me to find my first little black dress. When I was eventually allowed by my parents to go dancing with the rest of the office crowd (including her), I found out how old she was. Twenty four !

dustyangel - That made me laugh. Maybe there is someone out there looking at us and thinking how glamorous and sophisticated we are. The lady I was talking about was probably much younger than I thought! I do remember she was a grandmother. She used to call me darling. I had never heard anyone call anyone darling except on TV. My ambition at 16 was to be a 'real mod'. I tried really hard but hadn't really got much of a clue. A girl came to work in the office who had got it just right - a real mod in my eyes. I can remember thinking 'she looks great, but it's a shame she is 20'.