Am I Old?

So how do you know if you are old or not?

Is it when you have a season ticket to the doctors as different bits go wrong or fall off each week?

Is it when a late night is 11pm and you pay the price for the next few days even though you didn't drink?

Is it when your jeans are no longer the comfiest items of clothing in your wardrobe?

Is it when you suddenly realise all the clothes you have bought in the last few months were from Marks and Spencers and not other younger high street brands?

Is it when you become horrified that the trousers you bought from M & S have elasticated waists?

Or is it when you realise you have tried to make a cup of tea in a glass sugar pot and the hot water has broken it?

Or what about when the bread won't fit in the fridge and milk doesn't belong in the oven?

Does it take just one of these to make you old? What if you can relate to 5 or more? What does that make me? Will organising a birthday party with some retro twists really make me feel young and back in the 80's again? Unlikely.

Please no. I'm not ready for knitting, tartan slippers, hot water bottles and horlicks.

Not yet anyway.

On being ripped off...

How can they be allowed to do this? I thought it was extortion to increase our energy payments to £100 per month. Now they have doubled them - £200 per month. Where do we find this extra money? We had no notification of this happening. No slight increase. Just wham! An extra £1200 a year please.

Shopping has increased. About 2 years ago, packs of ham were about £1.70 in Tesco's. Now they are £2. How? No one is getting a pay rise, unless they are a greedy fat cat *anker. How do they deserve their bonuses? What happens to those lower down the food chain? Teachers, nurses, dustmen? They are the ones that keep the world running on a day to day basis. They make peoples lives, save peoples lives and maintain peoples lives.

Gradually all the average people are being stretched further and further. More and more will soon lose a roof over their head. What will there be for the future generations? No jobs, more dereliction, more crime, more poverty.

Where are we heading? I don't know. I thought we were OK, but after this increase and no pay rise for hubby for the last 3 years who knows? Getting a paid job is looking closer than ever. Am I in a condition to get paid work? I don't know that either. Can I get a job that has the right hours? Unlikely. Can we afford to pay childcare? That I do know and the answer is no. Why should I pay someone full time childcare so I can work full time for the remainder of my salary, maybe £50?

Why is the world so unfair?

Anyone know of a job from 9:30 to 2:30 Mon -Fri term time only?????
Chance would be a fine thing.

Life comes from a seed

The seeds are sown

Deep in the earth

Allowed to rest and grow

Warmth and water

Love and care

See seeds grow into flowers

They grow through spring and into summer

When they bloom

and show their colour

A petal falls

In autumn time

Start of a midlife crisis?

As the flower wilts

and loses leaves

It heads back in the ground

To help the growth

of next years seeds

With its goodness and resolve.

As we enter

Our autumn years

We can sense what is to come.

As we were born

From just one seed

We return into the ground.