Wedding receptions

A few years ago my pal was in the bank and heard someone refer to her as a wifie! She asked me when you stop becoming a lassie and start being a wifie? (We are Scottish).

I was very happy today when the man at the checkout called me madam. He spoilt it as I left calling out 'cheerio dear'. Oh well.
I do enjoy a wedding reception with all ages present. Its sort of the whole point of a wedding. I don't like it when children aren't invited. Its lovely to see the wee ones dancing in their best outfits and sliding about on the floor!

The lady across from us died last year, she was 93. She was very independent and fit but I always cleared the snow away for her and knocked to see if she needed anything. A new young family has just moved in - they cleared MY snow away last week. WOW!!!

When my husband and I were young parents we were cooking breakfast and our four year old son told my 32 year old husband that "I expect you used wooden frying pans when you used to be young".
Our son is 27 now and it's still a family joke whenever he and his wife are with us for breakfast. My daughter in law is from overseas and I'm sure harbours the idea that wooden frying pans are yet more proof of eccentric British customs.

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My granddaughter bought a china doll dressed in Victorian clothes from a jumble sale. My grandson said to me "is that the sort of thing you wore to school in the olden days?" I wouldn't mind, but I was only 49 at the time!

keriku I'm also Scottish ,I felt ancient when I got married and the children in the street started calling me Mrs W ,but we always called neighbours by their surname so I shouldn't have been surprised .I still call my mums old neighbours by their married name when I meet them in town

Towards the end of my son's wedding reception, 2.5 years ago, a young woman (mid twenties?) came across to me to say goodbye and thank me for a lovely evening, She then spoiled it by telling me that I was lovely and reminded her of her grandma. I was 54 ffs! Still, I put on my best old woman voice, smiled and said "thank you, how sweet."

Last year, at the supermarket checkout, the young cashier asked me what I would be doing for the rest of the day. I hate that sort of question, so made up an answer, to which she replied that her grandma would probably be doing something similar!

My mum commented last year on how young my elder brother still looks. Fair enough, but did she really need to add that I look my age?

On BBC Breakfast the other day Professor Clare Gerada (former head of the Royal College of GPs) was talking about her report, commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, which concluded we should have a hypothecated tax to fund the NHS.

She said that when the NHS was set up "old" began at 50, but nowadays "old" begins at 85. That does seem a bit of a jump in two generations. I'm quite a lot younger than 85 yet but I definitely am beginning to feel old at least some of the time.

Do you agree?

We were automatically given concession tickets into Sandringham, we were almost offended!

My granddaughter said that no-one believed that her gran went on all the biggest rides at Disneyworld and that was at the front of the queue!