Damn

[Huge]

I've found the shed key, but now my baccy tin of assorted plugtop fuses has gone missing. And I'd just bought some more 3A ones.

Old age sucks.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Small nest of drawers for such things. So you don't get tempted to take it with you.

The creaking of my knees helps keep me awake.

[Andrew Gabriel]

My stock is held in a Racco drawer at home, but I also have a small selection in my toolbox, and a larger number in the toolkit I take to repair parties.

The result is I can normally find at least one of these!

[spuorgelgoog]

I'm at the younger end of middle age (stop laughing Jonathan) and am currently wondering what has happened to two chisels which I was looking for desperately to hang a door with the other day.

I've also lost the ability to fit through gaps as small as I used to when I had a 30" waist.

Owain

[Huge]

I just got my Senior Railcard and free prescriptions.

I did recently find my plastic hammer which had been missing for some time.

It was on the roof. (I had been using it to dress some lead flashing around the chimney stack.)

Waist? I remember those. I'm sure I had one, once. Wonder where it went?

[Bob Eager]

Got both of those. You have to wait a bit for the bus pass (which I now have). I don't use buses much but it's useful 'proof of age'.

[cl]

I use my bus pass in London when I visit, very convenient for the trip from station to where my wife works. It's the hassle-free'ness that I like as much as it costing nothing.

I actually had quite a good 'not losing things' week last week, though finding that the blown exhaust gasket on the boat engine was actually a blown head gasket was a bit of a downer.

[PeterC]

Try looking around you.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

In London it's a Freedom Pass. And can be used on local train services as well as bus and tube. And not so local either - trains seem to be ok for most of the inside the M25 area.

Actually worth far more to me than the winter fuel allowance. Even although I've got a car which I can afford to run.

[Geoff Pearson]

In Scotland the bus pass enables travel over the whole country and I received it at 60.

[cl]

So it does in England, my bus pass is issued by Suffolk CC but works anywhere in England. We only get it at the same time as we get a state pension though.

[Another John]

Huge: it's in the fridge. Behind the cheese; where you meant to put the yoghurt; that you had in your other hand when you last had the fuses; which you were on the way to put away when you noticed the yoghurt sitting out on the worktop; because you'd put it down when the microwave pinged ... etc etc etc etc

hth J.

[Adrian]

Which means the yoghurt is probably in the shed?

[Another John]

Pah! Proof of age? You lucky young sod. I was utterly dismayed, the first time a younger person said to me "Is that a Concession?"

J.

[Huge]

Say "Thank you" to the nice English taxpayers who are paying for it.

[Huge]

Wouldn't bloody surprise me.

I have found a box of AA batteries I didn't know I had, while looking for the fuses.

[Bob Eager]

I should only need it for jobsworths. I took my passport with me when I got my Senior Citizen's Railcard and they never asked for it.

My hair has been white since I was 35.

[Mr Pounder]

I understand that they get ?17b in aid from England every year.

[PeterC]

We seem to have reached the age/state where serendipity is finding what we were looking for.

[stuart noble]

Been watching my 9 year old grandson playing Minecraft, along with every other child on the planet apparently. This I do not understand