The realisation you're getting old

[Gwylan]

I seem to care less about everything

What are they going to do?
Fire me?

 

[Punkawallah]

What are they going to do?
Fire me?

Well, they can only do it the once, so they’d better do a good job of it.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I remember when we got our phone installed in the mid 70s. My mum made me run to the nearest payphone with 2p so she could hear it ring. We'd waited 3 months for it to be installed and it came in a beige brown, not the avocado green she'd ordered.


ETA - a few years later we upgraded to a trimphone. Looked great but we had to sit it on a tin tray so we could hear it.

Mentioned this to my mum last night. I didn't know that we re-decorated the lobby to match the new phone.

 

[Chris S]

 

[ren531]

Bought a wee tripod camping stool for when I'm out with the TCV so I can avoid getting a wet behind during tea breaks. Sitmats are provided, but they're invariably pretty grubby and maybe my higher seating gives me an air of authority - ?

TCV , Trust for conservation volunteers?

 

[Accy cyclist]

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My great grandma Florence (Flo), born in 1889 and 1 of 9 children used washed out Fray Bentos steak & kidney pie tins as ashtrays, smoked 20 Park Drive a day, drank 4 pint bottles of Mackeson a night and lived to 91. 🧐

 

[DCBassman]

Funerals, increasing numbers of funerals...

 

[simongt]

TCV , Trust for conservation volunteers?

Correct - !
Branches all over the country doing good works for environment and community.

 

[ren531]

Correct - !
Branches all over the country doing good works for environment and community.

Excellent stuff, I'm a member of a small local independent conservation group affiliated to TCV myself and probably like me you get more out of this than can be put into words whilst having a strong connection to nature and helping wildlife too . Great to know others on here also enjoy conservation volunteering .

 

[Badger_Boom]

ETA - a few years later we upgraded to a trimphone. Looked great but we had to sit it on a tin tray so we could hear it.

..when you're old enough to remember trimphone impersonation contests.

 

[MontyVeda]

hearing a piece of music that i still consider relatively new, then realising that it's almost 30 years old

 

[Tenkaykev]

Excellent stuff, I'm a member of a small local independent conservation group affiliated to TCV myself and probably like me you get more out of this than can be put into words whilst having a strong connection to nature and helping wildlife too . Great to know others on here also enjoy conservation volunteering .

Due to her wildlife volunteering one of my volunteer friends got to fly in a Helicopter last year. Unfortunately it was the Air Ambulance helicopter as she had a severe reaction to the Adder bite she received whilst on a herpetological survey over the local heathland.

 

[All uphill]

What are they going to do?
Fire me?

That's normally called " cremation"

 

[All uphill]

My great grandma Florence (Flo), born in 1889 and 1 of 9 children used washed out Fray Bentos steak & kidney pie tins as ashtrays, smoked 20 Park Drive a day, drank 4 pint bottles of Mackeson a night and lived to 91. 🧐

Now I really feel old. My grandmother was born in 1877.

 

[ren531]

Due to her wildlife volunteering one of my volunteer friends got to fly in a Helicopter last year. Unfortunately it was the Air Ambulance helicopter as she had a severe reaction to the Adder bite she received whilst on a herpetological survey over the local heathland.

Wow that's quite a volunteering tale to tell, more exciting than any of mine, hope she was ok .