Do our likes change over the years?

Swimming , I go at least once a week and have done for many years.. except when my kids were small .

I'm curious as to what happens to the other two-thirds of your cake, NanKate.

Do you take it home with you, or does the café save it for the next time you call in?

I loved needlework but it was considered useless or fuddy duddy or for people who couldn't afford to buy things so I kept quiet about it . It's really good to belong to groups who appreciate needle work now. It amuses me that SIL who was very contemptuous of sewing when I was a new girlfriend to now DH has taken up knitting in retirement.

I wondered about the as well.?
I think the only thing that I still like doing, that I always used to, is reading.
We do change a lot over the years, and so do our likes.

Well, I was betting on the horses when I was 10 and am still doing it; only difference is that it's legal now.

I was fond of reading as a child and still read all the time!

Looking after animals, reading, listening to music and daydreaming.

Wonderful Tegan you are my kind of gal ! My late mum was a great follower of the gee gees.

Ana and Roses to answer your cake question. I cut the cake into 3 and put two parts in a little poly bag and keep it in my bag, so when I have cappuccino no 2 and 3 I have a little nibble to go with it. I am not mean I just want to keep my weight down.

I'm not sure I agree with you Roses as follows

I still love rock and roll
My favourite non alcoholic drink is ginger beer
I still am a hopeless cook
I still manicure my nails
I am still collecting costume jewellery

You may have changed but I don't think I have much.

I bought a book of Christmas knitting patterns today even though I still can't knit [which, I guess follows on from a pattern of buying books and not reading them ie the bookshelf is an extension of my mind in some way]. I, too still manicure my nails but now it isn't to make my hands look nice but to hold my brittle crumbling nails together . I still love films and new music and the sea and the countryside. And I'm still on theneverendingdiet....

My mum loved the horses too Tegan, can probably remember more jockeys from the 60s-70 than I can now.
Always loved reading, walking, Rod Stewart and watching old films. (They weren't so old before though! Oh, and cheese and Mars bars!

I loved reading and still love it. I can't think that I have been without a book since I was about 6 yrs. I finish one and start another.
I love snow and still get very childish about it.

Needlework. My mother didn't have a clue about needlework so I don't really know how my love of it began - from about the age of 7 I would cut up any scraps of fabric I could find and make things for my dolls to wear. I don't think I understood about hems and buttonholes, but they were always 'wearable'. My maternal grandmother was a seamstress and her sister was a tailoress, so my mother always said I must have inherited their skills .
I made my wedding dress and 3 bridesmaids' dresses, most of DC's clothes when they were small and now I'm enjoying sewing for my baby GD!

Nankate

You really made me think and I have come to the conclusion I am nothing like I was in my youth. I bet my mum and dad were glad about that!

I've never really given it much thought before. I do like vegetables now , hated them when I was growing up so even my palate has changed.

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!

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!

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 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

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.

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 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.

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'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.

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.....

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!