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Post by toonia on Oct 13, 2006 18:00:05 GMT
There was a question on the Beeb board from a 20 year old who wanted to know if he was an exception being interested in gardening at a young age.
Of course a laydee never reveals her age but I thought it would be fun to find out, and of course here you can do it anonymously!
....and we haven't had a poll for a while!
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Post by lottielady on Oct 13, 2006 18:18:27 GMT
Is everyone else to shy to say?
LL x
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Post by toonia on Oct 13, 2006 18:22:20 GMT
Must be. I didn't want to be the first as everyone would have known it was me! But I'm right, aren't I, if you don't add a comment, no-one knows who is replying?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2006 18:39:47 GMT
I have no hang-ups about my age.
38¾
Mental age of about 12.
FA x
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Post by sleepysunday on Oct 13, 2006 19:28:11 GMT
Hey up... what kind of poll is that?
under 20
21 to 30
31 to 40
41 to 50
over 50
Is 50 old then?
what happened to:
51 to 60
61 to 70
71 to 80
81 to 90
Hitler was in her 90s when she finally packed in gardening
Young people <sighsmiley> sometimes forget that wrinklies are taking over the world and they'd better get used to it.
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Post by sleepysunday on Oct 13, 2006 19:29:16 GMT
50 this year btw
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Post by Rosefriend on Oct 13, 2006 19:59:44 GMT
oh dear - this month I will be 51 sleepy.....
rosefriend
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Post by sleepysunday on Oct 13, 2006 20:31:41 GMT
Why 'Oh dear'?
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Post by Rosefriend on Oct 13, 2006 20:36:30 GMT
well sleepy - inside I am 21 and full of power but outside I do see the cracks starting a little.
I am certainly not afraid of getting older - there are times however, I just wish that I had had the sense to do in youth what I now know would have been right.
Rosefriend
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 13, 2006 20:45:44 GMT
Well I'm not shy, 49 in Feb. Sometimes I act like a 16yr old and feel like one. At the moment I feel ancient with this beast of a cold.
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 13, 2006 20:49:22 GMT
I've never been a laydee but these days feel more like half munchkin, half donkey - I have no worries about revealing that I will be 50 in November. I'm always planning what I'm going to be when I grow up so maybe I'd better get a move on........that's quite a big number isn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2006 21:20:28 GMT
I was 53 last September  but don't feel a day over 19, that's how old I was went I got married. |
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Post by owainglyndwr on Oct 13, 2006 21:31:16 GMT
40 next year. Some days I feel my age. Some I feel 19 and others 59.
But no matter what ... smiling everday is worth a 5 gallon drum worth of Oil of Ulay
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2006 22:39:27 GMT
All I'm saying is I was almost a leap year baby and if I'd have been born a few hours earlier I'd be older than my shoe size, but not old enough to vote  |
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Post by Jonah on Oct 13, 2006 22:42:31 GMT
I do actually lose track now, sign I'm getting on a bit ;D I seem to be stuck at around 28 but am actually 37 til February. It sounds so grown up, very scary. But I wouldn't want to turn back the clock. I'm much happier in my head now I'm older, secure and have the OH to trust and the beautiful 3 babes tucked up in bed. Sorry, we opened a bottle of wine, you get a novel when I do that.....  |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 14, 2006 8:48:50 GMT
40 next year! It doesn't bother me - yet!!! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2006 9:34:00 GMT
48 and like many others, feel (and behave) about 21 but wiser than i was back then ... sometimes!
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 14, 2006 10:01:35 GMT
44, but who cares,  age is irrelevant, anyway after you pass 18 ! |
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Post by Spruance on Oct 14, 2006 10:19:16 GMT
I'm 47 and will be 48 next month!
Problem is I don't feel like a 47 year old, and it still looks very strange to see it in print - as above - because it makes me think "Are you sure?".
I well remember thinking when I was younger that anyone much over 40 was really quite old!
As Mrskp says, mentally we are still young at heart, it's just the physical side that sometimes let's us down.
When I was 25 I bought myself a racing bike, like I had wanted at school but wasn't allowed to have! I used to go out on regular jaunts for two or three hours at a time, sometimes covering 40 miles in a single stint.
Contrast that to now, when I still have a near new commuter bike (as I think it's called) which I bought a couple of years ago to cycle to work on. I would guess that I have been out on it no more than a couple of dozen times. Yet up to passing my driving test at 18, I used to cycle every day!
As for gardening, I have been interested since I was 14, so the 20 year old would have been a late starter from my point of view.
Spruance
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Post by toonia on Oct 14, 2006 10:23:58 GMT
i'm getting the feeling I should have started a poll "how young do you feel?"
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Post by andy on Oct 14, 2006 11:44:35 GMT
I'm 40 and i've been a gardener since i left school at 15. Back then, there were many apprentise schemes around and the "computer age" had yet to kick in.
Brighton parks department, for whom i started work, and now have gone back to, had scores of people applying for the 12 annual apprentiships up for offer. Kids enjoyed working with plants and machines...there were no stupid health and safety laws preventing 16 year olds from using ride on mowers etc.
But now, there are very few places for youngsters to do appretiseships etc. Unless you seem to be able to work with computers, there's no hope for you. Even with the recent influx of tele programmes bigging up gardening, there just doesn't seem to be the interest anymore.....maybe the kids of today are a bit shy of getting their hands dirty.
Hopefully, local authorities will see the error of their ways and start bringing back apprentiseships. Our last lot of apprentises are approaching their mid 30's now and once they've gone, there's no experienced gardeners to take their place.
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Post by Plocket on Oct 14, 2006 13:02:07 GMT
i'm getting the feeling I should have started a poll "how young do you feel?" Depends on who I'm feeling!!!!! |
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Post by magrich on Oct 14, 2006 13:22:03 GMT
i'm getting the feeling I should have started a poll "how young do you feel?" all depends on what I am doing.........I am 61, but have been 39 for many years, and only realise that I am not when I start to do something that I would have done without thinking about it (eg decorating) and now find that it leaves me knac.....!!! |
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Post by Dr Bill on Oct 14, 2006 17:37:19 GMT
I'm beginning to feel like the patriarch
56 going on 103
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Oct 14, 2006 18:41:58 GMT
As many of you already know I celebrated my 50th birthday a few weeks ago. In my head my age varies between about 6 and 108...and as I staggered about today with huge bags of horticultural grit, JI No.3 and various other HRT stuff...the BODY is behaving as if it's around 98..... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2006 12:08:18 GMT
43 ... but given the humungous hangover I'm nursing today, obviously still need to grow up! ... cheers ...
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Post by Juliet on Oct 15, 2006 19:41:43 GMT
Of course a laydee never reveals her age but I thought it would be fun to find out, and of course here you can do it anonymously! I'm obviously not a laydee, as most people here were at my 40th birthday party in April & therefore know how old I am. I seem to have the same dichotemy as everyone else though - my brain still thinks I'm 21; my body (aches & pains-wise, on a bad day) thinks I'm about 80. |
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Post by netherfield on Oct 15, 2006 21:40:09 GMT
1952 Vintage-and not bothered at all
Felt about 84 this morning after shifting a whole bay of compost and then turning the latest one over
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2006 22:03:15 GMT
Only the best vintage that year . I should know P X |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2006 15:16:08 GMT
ping ;D
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but don't feel a day over 19, that's how old I was went I got married. 
