Happy Birthday Angela Woodford.

[J.R.]

A land-mark birthday, by all accounts.

(as usual, modesty prevents......)

Have a great day, Angela !!

[Mid A 15]

Have a great day Angela!

How's the running going?

[Angela Woodford]

Thank you very much indeed!

A landmark indeed. 60! It feels weird. But now life's changing completely. Moving... new bloke ... new studies!

Running, Andy! I'm slightly anxious on slippery surfaces and longing for when the weather warms up a bit. The half-marathon isn't that far away!

I barely noticed 30. 40, didn't care! 50 - asked for matching bedlinen, sulked under it for a bit then emerged when nothing had changed. But 60 does feel really different. I don't know if anyone else agrees? 60!

Eeeeeek!

[Fjgrogan]

It's odd that I don't remember 60 feeling special, although others made a fuss of it on my behalf. However I find it daunting to realise that my 'baby' is fast approaching 40.

[J.R.]

It's odd that I don't remember 60 feeling special, although others made a fuss of it on my behalf. However I find it daunting to realise that my 'baby' is fast approaching 40.

Much the same here.

.... and we are preparing for our eldest Grand-Daughters marriage in September. It's her Mums, (our eldest), 40th in March, but I don't think she'll thank me for saying so !

[Angela Woodford]

40!

40 is nothing!

At least I haven't gone all grey, I console myself. Just a few grey hairs round the edges. A tiny touch up with a bit of L'Oréal, and I'm ready to rock and roll.
Think of the free prescriptions! And I can't think of much else I'd get free.

Now I have to learn to drive a giant Saab, a lorry, a pick-up truck, a Subaru, a fork-lift thingy and a Maserati. I may have lamented in the past that I'm a nervous driver, deeply sensitive to criticism... Yes, turning 60 is going to be challenging!

[Fjgrogan]

Having dyed my hair for years, when I finally stopped I found it strangely liberating; also I found I was being offered a seat on the bus (although the walking stick might have accounted for that!). It is now shoulder length - just waiting for the layers to grow out - and mainly silver with a dark stripe centre back, as my mother also had (imitating a badger!); I was seriously considering plaiting it as soon as it is long enough - then I read that plaits were coming back into fashion; not sure that I actually want to be fashionable! But please does anybody know how to get rid of a yellowish tinge? - I have never smoked in my life, so it is not that!

Sorry Angela, I seem to be highjacking your birthday thread!

[Angela Woodford]

This is a serious matter. I have done some research, Frances.

Clairol Shimmer Lights shampoo and conditioner. Recommended both by blondies and silver foxes. Purple products - but don't be alarmed - it's because purple is the opposite in the colour spectrum and helps to create a pretty silver.

My sister went the most wonderful bright silver at 60. Her hair now she's nearly 80 is a super colour - but it looks as if mine won't be going to do this. I think when the time comes, I'd rather go silver with a terrific haircut than lighter brown "to suit fading skin" as hairdressers recommend. Or a blue rinse - don't laugh! I've seen lovely pale blue hair, so long as it's not on a cauliflower perm.

[Fjgrogan]

Thank you for the information, Angela. I shall scan Tesco online when I am next ordering groceries and see if it can be delivered with the milk and vegetables! Funnily enough I have lurking in my dressing table drawer a purple hairspray which I have never had the courage to use - I can't imagine where or when I bought it! But purple is definitely my colour for clothing - almost everything in my wardrobe is purple/mauve/burgundy/magenta with the odd burst of fuchsia, so perhaps now might be a good time to install purple streaks in my hair before I hit 70 (just over two years to go!).

PS - revenons a nos moutons - I do hope you had a good birthday!