Emma Watson aging

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'.

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 !

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.

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 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.

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

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!

Katy

:-)

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

Hunny-Bunny I don"t do excited about ageing !!
I meant I DO excited generally !!you have to keep up with me . [if you want to of course] , probably can"t be a---d , and who would blame you !!

Nonu do you DO excited about ageing?

Deedaa

ANA 23 year olds DO excited !!
mind you I DO excited and I am surely not 23 any more.
[not that I would want to go back to that , for all the tea in China]

I do remember having all my hair cut off when I was 21 because I was grown up and much too old to have long hair!!! I had changed my mind by the time I was 30 and have ignored age since then.

I know!
But why be 'excited' about it at 23? If she's just talking about playing older parts in films etc., fair enough, but that's nothing to do with the actual process of ageing.

ANA ,
she might not be so excited when it finally comes upon her .
Chuckle !!!

KATY

It's the phrasing, for me. "I'm excited about the ageing process." Why?

Well, I suppose there is that, she is aging in the same way all twenty-three year olds are, as all one year olds are even. But the juxtaposition of aging and 23 struck me as weird. 23 is young however you look at it and one doesn't even realise one's mortal for several years after that. Talk of aging just seemed daft.

Her intelligence or otherwise didn't come into my thinking at all. I know Minibags admires Watson's groundedness.

This grumpy old bat regrets her previous post.

In the account I read she was also talking about how difficult it has been her, being stalked around the university by press and feeling under pressure to be perfect. I agree with Tegan. In Wales we would say chwarae ten - fair play to her.

I thought it was rather lovely of her to, at a time when 'celebs' are constantly shown airbrushed for the cameras [and making other women feel inferior] make a point of saying 'this is what it takes to make me look this gorgeous'. A bit like a different version of the Dolly Parton 'it costs a fortune to make me look this cheap' quote.

Airhead she is not. Brown University is one of the Ivy League colleges and she has been a visitor student (whatever that may be) at Worcester College, Oxford. This Telegraph article shows that she isn't taking it all too seriously.

Don"t think she was causing any great harm to anyone ! Just a young woman rattling on , as they seem to do nowadays , everything seems to have to be "Talked about" , in minute detail !!