Do our likes change over the years?

I still like ringing the bell on the service bus. Got beaten to it yesterday by another Gran. She confessed that she likes doing it too.

My likes and dislikes are pretty much the same. I had a tiny 'garden' as a child and I still love my garden and all in particular.

Reading has remained a constant in my life. I can remember lying in bed as a small child before i learned to read, looking at picture books and making up a story about what i saw. I am always at the library now i am retired as i love to try out different authors and types of books without having a cost involved. When i was at work i spent a lot of cash on books from charity shops book shops and car boot sales and i have a mini library at home. As a child i used both the school library and the local one as i couldn't afford to buy many books.

I also enjoy knitting and can remember my nan and mum teaching me. My mother in law taught me how to sew as a young bride and i did quite a lot of sewing for my first home and the children. Now its so cheap to buy items it isn't worth the hassle, mess and time.

I have always loved gardening since being very young. Always loved babies and chocolates. Crosswords, all kinds of music dependent on mood at the time. Hated sun in my eyes, yes love snow. Always loved art but cannot paint. I am 70 and those things I still love. Bit worn now but still the same inside.?

Ditto - never ever without a book ( or 10 on my kindle) and just feel so exited when it snows!

I compare old age to adolescence, a time of constant (mostly unwelcome) change.
There are a multitude of things I can no longer enjoy, from long walks with the dogs to playing the piano. I am in no way the person I used to be so there's not much left which I enjoyed long ago and still do now. Maybe
Battenberg cake
Getting into bed at the end of each day
Cooking
Frosty mornings.

I love to write. I wrote poems as a teenager and write them again now I'm retired - I think hormones play a part!

Have loved reading since childhood and still do. A few years ago I met an old school friend's mother and she reminded me that I always had my nose in a book - I don't think it was meant as a compliment either! Foodwise, my tastes are definitely different since I had to be forced to eat vegetables when I was younger. Could be something to do with more enlightened ways of cooking them now. Like lots of other GNers, I am also much more into being outside and needing fresh air and a dose of green spaces. I don't really think I would recognise my teenage self now to be honest!

I seem to have rediscovered some of my "likes" since retirement, but some have always been there:
Reading, anything to do with history and family history, music, decorating myself (makeup, jewellery etc.), the coast and the countryside, food, flowers, pets, puzzles...
I didn't have time for some while working and bringing up family but enjoying them all now!

SPROUTS!! Used to love them as a child, now don't really like the taste and already fed up with that silly little green thing bouncing along the TV screen. Have actually bought some sprouts today!!, and am going to try shredding them and stir frying with onion and chilli. Still love books and having a dog as a companion.

Always been an omniverous reader, always preferred fact to fiction, still loathe milk, still bored to tears by cricket - in fact a real stick-in-the-mud

I agree with you about words. All of my family are obsessed with them and we quite often have whole conversations about derivation and etymology. When my son was two he once said in the garden, 'I LOVE words.' He also made many words up when he was a toddler. My husband used to write for the 'Times', I was an English teacher and my daughter did an English degree so I guess it is all in the genes. I am glad to hear others share our interest.

I love reading but my tastes have changed completely, and I don't seem as addicted to novels as I once was. I have also always loved singing, gave it up when bringing up the kids but came back to it in my 40s and am still a keen choir member. And I have ALWAYS loved games and puzzles, so have been hooked on various computer games ever since the GameBoy, and was thrilled when Sudoku arrived!

I've always loved reading. When dad used to watch his 'nature' programmes I would take myself off to my room. Now I watch them as avidly as he did. I've always loved animals, so I don't know why I found them boring back then.
I don't think my food or music tastes have changed.

Snap, Tegan
My fondness for horse racing started around the same age. I used to place my father's bets at the local bookies. He had a fondness for accumulators...Did wonders for my mental arithmetic!

Reading is the one thread that runs through my life since the age of 6. And wearing mascara every day since the age of 14, still do at 78!
In lots of other ways I have changed.....

I'm another that always loved books and still do. Thinking hard about this one, the biggest change for me is possibly a far greater appreciation in the natural beauty of the world around us. In my younger days I didn't really stop long enough to take in say a beautiful view and just marvel at how wonderful trees and flowers look in all their guises. Once upon a time holidaying in the British Isles for example didn't really do it for me, a holiday wasn't a holiday, unless a plane journey was involved. I now think we have a spectacularly interesting country with fabulous countryside, at it's best it's very beautiful and I now love being here in the UK as much as going abroad. particularly as of late I find air travel the worst part of the holiday anyway.

I still like words. Not long ones. Just words. Reading them, putting them together, trying to make them rhyme. Even singing them. I really like words.

I still enjoy most of the things I ate as a child. There are somethings I've added to the list, vegetables, olives, red wine. I always loved mince pies, Eccles cakes, you know sweet but with a tangy sort of sour twist. I still love peeking into other people houses as I go past(draw your curtains if you see me coming!) I still read when I can. The only thing I've really noticed is my taste in T.V has changed. I'd don't know what I saw in 'top cat' and the like. My personality has changed beyond recognition. I hardly know the person I was in my youth. Whice is why I never ever joined in those reunited websites. I would have nothing in common with the people I went to school with. Probably because I've moved around and haven't lived in my home city since 72. I have achieved most of what I wanted but that's mainly because I didn't expect or want much.

My food tastes have changed a lot.
I no longer like very sweet things and I love sprouts and olives- both of which I hated as a child. I still love bananas. I now like very dark chocolate.

I am not sure whether my likes have changed, but certainly my tastes have. I loved cream soda when I was a little girl, but when I tried it again as an adult, I thought I was drinking fizzy washing-up liquid. Equally, I hated olives as a child, but now they feature almost every day in my lunch menu.

I've always been an avid reader.
Always loved country music. ..... Kenny Rogers etc still do.
Used to dance/jive all night, not any more, now it's our version of some sort of waltz or quickstep.
No longer drink alcohol...never did like the taste,
Always have crosswords and Suduko to hand.
Still love Brown lemonade, it might be a local thing.

Find that I no longer like mushrooms, don't know why.
Gone off fizzy drinks and usually drink tap water only.
Have retained my love of marmite

The things I like and enjoy have remained fairly consistent but I have become more confident in myself and my abilities. Conversely I am also more aware of my limitations and faults.

I`ve always been a reader, can`t bear not having a pile of books waiting to be read.
As for things to eat, I still love sherbert fountains. I`d like to be able to buy a bag of American cream soda and a large stick of liquorice, but none of the sweet shops these days know what it is, they think I`m asking for a bottle of pop!

Reading, open skies, growing things, the sea and rivers, quiet space. All those things have been with me forever. Taste in food and, fortunately , clothes have changed so much. I still wish I could have a musical talent or draw and paint. Sadly I'm no better now than I ever was!