Lillie
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Reged: 04/06/2008
Posts: 1398
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Hello Ladies
I was just thinking I really did not think I would ever as I got older (now 47) would ...........
Have three or four stubborn dark hairs sprouting from my chin on a regular basis lol !
Have serious eye bags and lines around my eyes !
Have an ever thinning top lip !!
Have a bottom that drops each year lol !
Would prefer flats than heels
Would get a bunion !!
Prefers staying in with a good book !
Goes to bed by 10 every night lol
Has hooded eye lids
Has back fat urghhh lol !!
and last but not least (but I am sure there are lots more I just cant remember right now lol) ever increasing size of inner thighs !!
Oh yes I know prefers big knickers lol !!
Over to you girls ......
Sue x
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cupcake
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Reged: 15/02/2008
Posts: 3005
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I did not expect to turn into my mum!
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kate1
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Reged: 18/08/2008
Posts: 2261
Loc: Leicestershire
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I used to go shopping all day with a friend...I did not expect to get tired after a couple of hours, and that's including a break for cappuccino!
I did not expect one day to be planning my 60th birthday, which is in December...me! 60! never! In my head I'm about 40!
I did not expect to be widowed at 50, and even then I did not expect to remarry and be so happy with my husband.
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issi
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Reged: 30/09/2007
Posts: 3066
Loc: Surrey
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I did not expect to feel the same as I did when I was younger. I always thought older people were different, but no, they are young people with older bodies. Help!
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miclor
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Reged: 15/02/2008
Posts: 708
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I did not expect to find out that the saying "a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips" was actually true!!
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lizalou
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Reged: 01/02/2008
Posts: 475
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Cupcake, isnt it scary turning into your mum! It happened quite suddenly for me, as her death and funeral occurred unexpectedly over Xmas when I was visiting, so I had to use one of her coats (only had a cagoule with me)
Ever snce then, I see her as I pass a mirror unexpectedly or a shop window!
Even my wardrobe has evolved into her colours!!
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MrsDing
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Reged: 25/09/2007
Posts: 632
Loc: Gloucestershire
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As Victoria Wood said "There are just soooo many places to moisturise!!"
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Janmac
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Reged: 18/06/2008
Posts: 439
Loc: Lancashire
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I didnt expect to meet the man who became my husband - at teh age of 41 , never having been married bedore
I didnt expect to learn to swim and cycle at teh age of 45
I didnt expect to feel at 50, the best I have for decades
I didnt expect to have joined the WI
I didnt expect to enjoy walking as much as I do
Perhaps you can guess that I have been trying to re-invent myself ! Still a work in progress!!
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dizeeblonde
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Reged: 19/01/2008
Posts: 2893
Loc: Manchester
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I didn't expect to feel so confident or that I would have such a good social life. I spent years raising my children alone, and used to think I would be too old to enjoy myself by the time they were grown up. I now know I was wrong to feel this way.
Am with janmac on this one I'm still a work in progress, and am enjoying every minute of it.
And I absolutley didn't expect to be dating a younger man, and what's more not feeling guilty about it.
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Happytigger
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Reged: 31/08/2008
Posts: 1765
Loc: Hertfordshire
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I didnt expect to be married.
or
have to watch everthing go south...
for things to take longer to heal/mend.
to find out that you cant stay up late anymore and expect to get up the next morning feeling great.
ho hum said pooh....but I am as I am older happier than I have ever been...:)
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May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through
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Linby
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Reged: 30/07/2008
Posts: 812
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I didn't expect to
Enjoy gardening
To enjoy stopping in on an evening
Loose my parents
Wear lower heels
Have facial hair
To enjoy wearing big knickers
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Foxie
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Reged: 09/08/2007
Posts: 4024
Loc: South London
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I didn't expect to
enjoy gardening so much. I was so excited to count the flowers on my peony this year and I love picking my home grown tomatoes and beans
have quite as extensive a herb garden
be quite so happy not going out on a Saturday night
start chatting to people on the bus and in queues (just like my mother!!)
have such a wonderful warm cosy feeling inside when all my nearest and dearest are sitting together enjoying a meal. I just look around the table and really, really savour the moment.
find how little I need to be so happy
enjoy talking about family things with my sister
feel that my nephews are just as precious and special to me as my own children
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In your journey through life, take what works for you and let the rest go. Susan Jeffers
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Chelsea
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Reged: 06/02/2008
Posts: 776
Loc: Essex
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I can't believe I need to wear glasses to read - I knew it would come but it just seems unreal now!
Didn't expect to have middle age spread. Or indeed be middle aged for that matter!
Didn't expect to have 'old lady' hands at 48
Didn't expect that I would have the career I have now
Didn't expect to have a bunion either or seek out the comfy shoes with 'support' lol!
Biggest shock - I now 'need' to wear a bra as opposed to wearing one because that is what you do! Comes as part of the middle age spread I suppose.
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Chelsea x
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Bellini
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Reged: 12/03/2008
Posts: 63
Loc: New Forest
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I wasn't really expecting grey pubes! Never mind, my stomach thoughtfully hangs over them! 
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Silentlady
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Reged: 30/11/2007
Posts: 8
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Nipples that feel the need to sprout hairs, almost in competition with my husband
Why is it that now that I can only wear low heels they bring out all these absolutely gorgeous shoes???
Find that I drink as much as I did when I first started drinking and get tipsy much quicker
but most of all...
To enjoy being the age I am now, watching all the young people battling it out, thinking, was it like that for me, or have things just got worse over the years and we have just been one step in front of it happening?
Oh yes, and people watching. I love just watching people rushing about, interacting with one another in all situations.
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MangeTout
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Reged: 08/07/2007
Posts: 3422
Loc: Oxfordshire
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I didn't expect to not care at all what I might get in my Christmas stocking.
I didn't imagine my bed would be more attractive to me on a Saturday night than meeting a guy in club.
I didn't expect to enjoy cooking dinner as much as I enjoy eating it.
I didn't imagine I'd pay off my credit card in full every month.
I didn't imagine I would answer the front door wearing an apron and slippers.
I never thought I would plan my evening around what's on tv.
I didn't imagine I would try to eat 5 pieces of fruit and veg a day.
I didn't imagine I would buy walking boots.
I didn't expect I'd go ballroom dancing.
I didn't imagine that I would enjoy giving more than receiving.
I didn't imagine my parents would get old.
I didn't imagine I would wear big knickers.
I didn't think one day it would be hard to climb out of the bath.
I didn't think I would need specs to drive my car.
Do you need any more?? I could go on!
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Vicky123
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Reged: 22/02/2008
Posts: 2172
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to still fancy my OH as much as I do!
to still worry about my grown up kids as much as I do
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to still (after 20 years) miss my mum as much as I do
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Fuschia
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Reged: 02/02/2008
Posts: 1069
Loc: US
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I didn't expect I'd ever grow old.  I don't mean that I thought I'd not live long enough, but somehow growing old was something I thought happened to other people, not me. 
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Spanishlady
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Reged: 21/01/2008
Posts: 1708
Loc: Torrevieja Spain
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I didn`t expect
to be living in Spain
to have to learn to talk all over again (spanish)
that Iwould have loads of friends that I have never seen
to enjoy cruising
to find sex painful (until I discovered the cream)
to miss my Paddy (mygrandson) so much
to still feel 20
to love drinking water
to love my SF more than ever
to have to dye my hair every six weeks
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amelica2
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Reged: 21/07/2008
Posts: 1210
Loc: Beds.
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Never expected to:-
1. get divorced, or even remarried.
2. like wearing flat shoes (bought new pair today in a purply/mauve colour)
3. go to bed as my son is getting ready to go out!
4. enjoy being a Grandma as much as I do
5. experience the menapause/change, but so glad not to have monthlys any more!
6. my youngest son to live abroad and how much I would miss him
7. to be writing to "strangers" on a forum!!
Also agree with so many already written above.
amelica2
amelica2
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