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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat.

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    If I am turning into anyone, it's my dad. He's a handsome bloke, but still, hardly what a teenage girl would have imagined middle age would be like.

    I shouldn't knock it though. I use sunscreen religiously - it makes a big difference. I also have dark skin, and high melanin levels helps with skin ageing/sun. After having cancer I am much stricter about certain things. Sunscreen is one.
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    My take on failing eyesight as I get older is that it is God's way of stopping me fretting over wrinkles and cobwebs. Win win really until you bend down with bare hands to pick up what looks like a raisin off the kitchen floor to realise as you get closer that it is the remnants of a cat-attacked giant spider!! 
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I generally look like my Dad. But as I get older, I keep seeing my Mum in the mirror. Very odd.

    Hogweed - it could have been worse .....
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • IamweedyIamweedy Posts: 1,364
    Well I'm with Obelixx. Reading instructions is for wimps.



    'You must have some bread with it me duck!'

  • Ruby12Ruby12 Posts: 2,193
    So sorry that you have been ill Fire .I trust that you are doing ok now .
     Occasional flights into reality. B) 
  • bookmonsterbookmonster Posts: 399
    It has occurred to me that my vegetables are not very vegan.  I would like to find a way of killing weeds with minimal harm to other creatures, having big spiky marsh grass in the middle of the drive is no fun. I find it frustrating that weed killers and therefore perfectly tidy paving are the norm though. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Apparently, according to some, plants including vegetables are sentient. If you just eat the seeds, you are eating their babies.
    Your body is a war zone. Things killing things and that's without considering antibiotics. Even Janes' bodies are killing things all the time :open_mouth:


    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Ruby12Ruby12 Posts: 2,193
    Pansy 😁.
     Occasional flights into reality. B) 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Thanks Ruby. All is well.🌱
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    In my head I'm still a size 10 twenty-six year old.   Who's that 53 year old fat lump that keeps appearing in the mirror?  Oh bum, it's me.
    We haven't got wider.  The mirrors are now much, much narrower - and distort everything.
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