Tick, tick, tick.

[Madhatter]

Is that all you are rindy, I thought you were much older, thought you'd retired. I'm only 34 so I'm still a lot younger than you HA.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

Is that all you are rindy, I thought you were much older, thought you'd retired. I'm only 34 so I'm still a lot younger than you HA.

I retired at thirty nine, or at least that's when I got them to pay out my private pension.

I can never go to a holiday camp though, because it wouldn't be fair to enter the glamourous pensioner contest though.

[jimmi5bellies]

My eldest is 18 this July and my youngest will be 16 in September. Im 37 and technically old enough to be a "grannie" ....

Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !

[SPUGGIE J]

They say after 21 its all down hill that might explain a lot. We are now in April and it dosnt seem that long ago that it was New Year its flying in that fast. Our hectic lifestyle with work and O/T dont help as we never seem to have the time to do anything. The phrase "not enough hours in the day" pops to mind. As a workaholic I am proberley reaching my pension faster than I should and know myself that a week with no work or anything constuctive to do does my napper in. Maybe its time to slow down chill out and take life by the horns and enjoy.

[pendy]

My "baby" is nearly 28 and 6ft 2"! I suppose we don't remember things as well, because there's more to remember. I can remember books I read as a child, and find it hard to recall the plot of one I read two months ago. It is true that you never feel any different inside, I sometimes look in the mirror and wonder who the elderly looking woman is - and yes, I will still walk along a low wall (if there's no-one looking but someone close to hold my hand!). I would dance the night away if I had the breath for it.

That said, I have had some great times and some unusual experiences - ask me about living on a boat with a mad artist sometime .....

[Margaret Pilkington]

I think time is relative...when you are in a boring lecture the time passes slowly......same in a traffic jam......but when you are late for something important....it just flies by...same as when you are enjoying something......so I reckon the best way to say it is........a minute isn't very long if you are on the right side of the toilet door!

[KAYJAY]

Originally Posted by garinda

Does time speed up as you get older?

On a recent sleepless night, I realised I'm half way between seventeen and the state pensionable age of sixty five.

I can remember everything I did aged seventeen.

I passed my driving test, and my A-levels. I remember what clothes I had, where we went on holiday, what records I played, the times of the buses I had to catch to and from college. I can even remember who had bread ordered on Saturday mornings at my partime job, and who prefered pale or well done loaves. I spent the summer working in Cornwall for a Dutch lesbian aristocrat, and can even rhyme off the names of all of her animals.

In fact it seems just like yesterday not twenty four years ago.

All this sleepless mathematics started because I was remembering how I used to sit in church as a child, and work out the age of the hymn writers. John Wesley (1703-1791), therefore he was eighty eight.

So at the end of this ramble two questions, as anything happened to make you feel your age, and does time speed up the more we travel further down this mortal coil?

Is that why children very often add quarter years to their age, because time seems to pass so slowly when you are just starting out in life? ie: 'I'm seven and three quarters'

oh it most certainly does(go quicker) - at 62, just can't believe it - where did it go? - and as someone said, catch sight of the old woman in the shop window reflection and realise it's ME - I rarely look in a mirror these days, far too depressing - having said all that, no way would I 'nip and tuck', too much of a coward and too mean!!!

[Debbie J]

I felt old last month when my daughter hit the quarter century mark. But then I look at my 8 year old and feel young again.

[WillowTheWhisp]

They did an experiment on TV a few weeks ago (or was that months ago?) where they asked people of different ages to estimate the length of a minute. The older people estimated it as much longer than an actual minute and the younger people estimated it as much shorter. So that meant that a real minute seemed longer than a minute to the younger people and shorter than a minute to the older people.

I don't feel any different inside to what I did when I was in my late teens or early 20s so where did all the years go? It doesn't seem 5 minutes since Mimi was born and now she's doing her GCSEs!

[grannyclaret]

it dosent seem 2 minuets since i was 21,,,,where does all the time go?