Who's having the most middle-aged Friday night? I'm going to have salmon and potatoes, watch Clarkson's Farm, read a bit of Martin Amis, take some HRT, then fall asleep before Newsnight.
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My husband and I just had a couch delivered. It's the first new couch we've ever owned, it has power reclining features, and a remote control for each side. He nearly fell asleep in it eariler today. I predict we'll fall asleep as we're watching Have I Got News For You tonight.
We've got the house to ourselves for the first time in ages,so we're going to sit at the dining room table like civilised people do and tuck into an M&S three courses for £15 feast
Cup of tea and Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain for a bit, then TOTP on BBC4, some keenly priced supermarket red wine, home made pizza for dinner. Got a fire going too.
Chinese takeaway with a Harvey’s Bristol Cream sherry (but just a small one so I don’t get a headache) watching “Only murders in the building” with my spouse of 23 years, with my dog sitting on my lap trying to hog my heated blanket!
Pretty confident that’s got to be a strong contender, right?
Not watching "Clarkson's anything" EVER. The man's an Arse. Just eaten an aubergine three cheese bake with smoked mackerel fillets. Will take my prescription tablets, washed down in with a glass of Zero Stout. Then off to a talk on the ecology of the River Arun. Middle age past me by decades ago x
I'm past middle age and am lying on my sofa, with the cat, having just watched Surgical Spirit (a bit of an NHS half-hour giggle from the late 80s), and shall spend the rest of the evening doing absolutely blimmin' nothing.
It's lovely on here, isn't it?
My middle-aged Saturday night is all planned: the HRT patch is on, there will be pasta, and The Mirror and the Light will be on the iPlayer. There will also be a glass of wine. A glass.
Rug, posh Chinese takeaway, Cross on Amazon Prime, bed, Slow Horses books, early sleep because I am going to an ACTUAL WEDDING tomorrow (already exhausted by the thought).
Switched to a posh fake one last year in the hope of curtailing the sneezing of men and boys. And so seeing as it won’t spoil and the world is apparently ending, I’m thinking “why not?” 🎄
there were loads of lights - not trees - up in houses in Iceland last week. I'd expected a volcanic wonderland of natural wonders and to feel like Blur in 1997. Instead, due to the weather denying day trips and adventures, Reykjavik felt more like a damp Woodbridge.
This makes me want a fake tree now…
While having red wine, thinking HRT might be the way forward, worrying about my pot plants, putting the chickens to bed and then falling asleep over my audiobook by 10…
On the middle aged jag…lived in a house with wooden floors for years and real tree ‘til death etc. But this year moved to a house with carpets and, frankly, that’s gonna be needle hell, surely? Time to fake it?
We bought a posh fake one in the last Jan sales, so this will be our first Xmas to use it. 20 odd years of having a real tree and time for a change. I was sick to death of clearing up needles and topping it up with water every night. Posh fake ones have come a long way.
Gave the kitchen sink a thorough scrubbing, swept the floor, now having a mug of tea. Will fall asleep with a fleece blanket and cat on my lap by 11pm.
Finally sent off a mammoth doc I had to finish, 1h ahead of time. Just reading it with glass of wine & spotting typos I didn’t notice on 4x reading b4 sending… but
SOMEONE JUST KNOCKED ON THE DOOR!
Stew then trying to conquer the jet lag by staying up later than 9pm. 25 minutes to go. Also, big fan of varifocals, although they don't work when you're lying on your side in bed reading.
Take ages to decide what takeaway to have, too many cans of ale, watch several episodes of TOTP on BBC4, then tunes on Youtube till I pass out on the settee… Christ…😩
Twice left over lasagna for dinner, then a discussion over whether the dog’s medical insurance continues to represent value for money followed by episode 2 of bad sisters, fin.
Living room out of bounds as I didn’t finish the decorating duties today so the TV is still under some dust sheets somewhere. So…. Scrabble, bottle of red and Florence and the machine in the kitchen. Do I win?
Butter chicken & naan, red wine, 2 cats for company, listened to @americanfric.bsky.social, catch up with Shetland, a few chapters of Helen Lederer’s memoir, blessed sleep.
Contact lenses still in (just) because we are going out to a vinyl night in a very old pub the middle of some marshes - it could get muddy #suffolk #midlifefun
The most exciting thing I am likely to do is take the traffic cones from the entrance to my newly tarmaced drive and park my car on it for the first time. Might even reverse park to really treat myself.
I'm sewing together crochet squares that my mother made in order to make a blanket for my daughter whilst watching old episodes of Grey's Anatomy - pretty middle-aged Fri Night I reckon.
I'm going to eat pasta and watch bake off. Maybe I'll take a 20 minute snooze on the couch with the dog. Then I'll go to bed early and sleep with the window cracked even though it will be below 0°c/32f°. Because if I don't the hot flashes will have me up all night
Well, me and dearly beloved missed Corrie to nip across to Birmingham and see a magnificent Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds gig- does that count for a pair of mid-60 somethings?
Took the kid to his art class and wandered round El Corte Ingles for two hours ticking items off his Christmas list while texting my wife about dinner.
We went out. It was about as gentle a night out as can be. Afternoon tea followed by a quick ale at a tap house and then the theatre for some Agatha Christie. Picked the dog up on the way home and was back in PJs by 11.
I'm living the stereotypical middle-aged mom dream of all her adult kids coming over to dinner on the same night. Then, after they go home, HRT and a best seller from the library until I nod off.
I’m in an Airbnb in Brecon so I can do a “Y” parkrun in the morning. I’m taking the preparation seriously - haddock and chips from a nearby chippy, a glass or two of Sauv blanc, and probably another episode of Rivals.
A few episodes of Succession (yes, late to the party I know) interspersed by a couple of sessions on the nebuliser to try to clear my sinuses before a flight tomorrow. Rock and Roll.🤘🏻
Red wine, sauerkraut with crackers, early evening walk by the river past the beavers (yes, rewilding in German cities is a thing), and now reading “Slowing” by the roaring fire (it is mighty cold here). Maybe middle age is rather good..
Just finished the Terry Pratchett biography so looking through my stack for a book that says, “read me tonight” while eating Bakewell tart. We live it large here xxx
I think I may be a contender. Evening spent drinking green tea and wrapping small gifts for the teen’s beautiful handmade advent calendar. His nana sewed it for him when he was tiny and it’s the first Christmas task every year.
I mean if it ended at midnight and were very literal minded you could claim that is all of the night. As when I’ve had the radio on just after midnight some presenters will say morning. I wish I was an early sleeper. But one of the more middle aged thins I do at 24 is tune into Radio 3 around that
Ah right. Yes, you’re right, next week. I actually didn’t manage to watch last week’s yet so it’ll be a catch up night. Have to say, it’s usually a highlight to the end of my week!
My missus has just finished a nap and we're now getting ready to take my oldest out for for tea at the local pub for his 23rd b'day with his girlfriend. We'll then head back to veg in front of the TV to watch last nights final Taskmaster then tonight's HIGNFY. I might have a beer.
Funnily enough, I've just posted a clip of RBW on my FB feed, so I'm going to spend the rest of my night with a take-away and trying to work out how I can watch the whole series AGAIN!
After @chrislhayes.bsky.social, I’m
Going to binge watch some classics I’ve never seen. Not all in one night, or even one weekend, of course. #criterioncollection
I worked the bar at our local Club. Altho that isn't middle-aged in itself, it's the night most middle-aged and senior members frequent.
Spent a lovely evening hearing peoples' stories, anecdotes and rubbish jokes. Laughter and warmth abounds.
I don’t know if it counts as middle age, but, my wife will be watching telly (probably streaming something we already have on DVD & she has watched a number of times) whilst I try to reconsider a storyline for the book I’ve been trying to write for the past seven years…
Chicken burger salad. Curled up on sofa with dog and cat before early night and few chapters of Elizabeth Finch, Julian Barnes. Feel so much better I am in good company
I've regressed to a primary school-aged Friday night. Had fish fingers, chips and peas for tea. Played a game of Mousetrap. Watching the floor is lava while eating halloween sweets with my 5 year old now.
I was in bed before I saw this - that's how middle-aged. Also: cheese and peanut butter on toast (don't knock it til you've tried it), while watching A Wild Year in the Fens.
I still get excited about my reading glasses? I needed them for so long, I retrospectively realised, so every time they DO THEIR MAGIC now, I'm still thrilled.
I have decent reading vision but need a pair for my laptop / eating and a pair for driving and telly. I can often be heard yelling to the household ‘where are my eating glasses’. Varifocals were too trippy.
This is the content I need. Currently have multiple pairs of glasses lying everywhere depending on the driving/reading/cooking/working/just-being-able-to-bloody-see situation I'm confronted with. It's brutal.
Varifocals are great, but if you slump on the sofa when watching TV like I do you end up looking through the wrong bit - it all goes fuzzy so you have to have TV glasses as well.
Varifocals for the win! My final straw was trying to wear my reading and distance glasses balanced on top of each other in a meeting trying to go between a presentation and notes! Not my finest hour!
I have TWO pairs of slightly different varifocals. One for driving and seeing what's playing on the radio, one for using a monitor and being able to read the keyboard
Still before noon here, but it is a grey day which no doubt will transition into a night of eating left-overs, watching Taskmaster UK, a long telephone call with my sister and an early bed time. Oh, and a bit of sewing inbetween. God, I love being retired.
i’m not technically classed as middle-aged BUT.. my friday night consist of putting the pile of laundry AWAY and washing up, before sitting down for the soaps with a cuppa and a biscuit. WILD.
sincerely, a 26yo with the knees of a 45yo xxx
Pack of ready salted and a box of after eights for dinner. Bottle of chateauneuf du pape and Cobra Kai 🥋
Hubby and 2 dogs sharing sofa with me.
Bliss ♥️
Overexcited Friday night g and t and CRISPS SO MANY CRISPS; #ludwig surely the most Middle aged show the world has ever known, bed with new Amanda Jennings novel oh God so happy
We have guests staying from that there London. I’ve been made to get the good stuff out. Linen, cutlery, crockery, even the good wine ffs!
If I’m asked to play games after dinner, we riot.
I was hoping to get stuck into Bad Sisters 2. Maybe you could call them with some sort of middle
Class emergency? The Waitrose delivery is trying to substitute their Kumquats or something?
I had a brandy and some hand baked vegetable crisps in a bowl i threw in my pottery class, whilst watching Four Weddings and a funeral? Oh and I live in Royal Tunbridge Welld. Do I pass the test ?
My chipotle salon tacos, watching taskmaster, reading a book about pirates, taking my blood pressure meds then falling asleep before 1am...feels positively youthful! (Apart from the meds)
Average Chinese takeaway, catch up on Classic Corrie, watched Brett Anderson on TOTP… Am I the same person who used to go to the Haçienda ? I think so, but I don’t recognise myself 😬
If they brought back ‘Classic Haçienda’ with less noise and no violence I’d be right down there😂
I spent the early evening switching from the RAC to the AA, which I reckon is the apogee of middle-agedness. Mrs D has also de-bobbled a sweater, which comes a close second.
Gammon, egg and chips with a daring splodge of piccalilli. Already had the tits out and husband gave me a 6.5. Next it’s making a genoise sponge and making it to the toilet on time. Fun
Friday night is pasta night, followed by catching up on a week's worth of House of Games followed by bed and a book. It's a wild life here in N Norfolk
I'm dutifully watching children in need, knitting a scarf for 10 week old baby, (my 67 yr old school friend's first child, her partner gave birth to their firstborn), truly wonderful.I'm sipping cocoa and am definitely very very very late middle aged...
I’ll be having pork chops and sweet potatoes and then making cookies with my kids. I will then crawl into bed with my dog and turn on Pachinko (so good), try to find where I fell asleep last night and proceed to fall asleep within a half hour. And I will love every minute of my lameness.
I’m watching an old Dalziel and Pascoe from the point when it started to go off the boil, periodically breaking off to check if anyone’s agreed with my post on an Audiophile forum about why Mojo’s Top 75 albums of 2024 is wrong.
I’m having some cheese and crackers, watching the Billie Jean King cup match. Then I’ll water the plants and hopefully be asleep before the 10 o clock news.
HRT done, drinking a glass of red wine in a warm bath after a heavy week, next up: mac & cheese with sausages in front of the TV with my partner ❤️, under a heated blanket, in our candlelit Cumbrian cottage (can you tell I’ve been cold today?! 🥶😂 ). Things have changed and I’m Here. 👏 For. 👏 It. 👏
Wife and kids are out. Horizontal on the sofa, fire burning in the grate, Guinness 0% in the freezer, scandi noir audiobook on while I rummage around Bluesky
Happily eating Friday takeaway pizza. A place in the sun on tv (grey grey skies in Ireland today) book beside me but drawn to this site for company. Working all weekend so no vino tonight !
You do! I recommend Monhouse. I got one from Lakeland and it was icky but this is good even without the heat on. I swim outside all year and when I return, I put it on medium heat and take a nap while I defrost. Lovely! [Also can adjust timings]
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Pretty confident that’s got to be a strong contender, right?
A dulchin tonight.
After that we’ll be too chunged to care.
It's lovely on here, isn't it?
While having red wine, thinking HRT might be the way forward, worrying about my pot plants, putting the chickens to bed and then falling asleep over my audiobook by 10…
So, by the 1st of September trees, lights, decorations & statutes of baby Jesus dressed like a Spanish Little Lord Fauntleroy are everywhere.
Over 4 months of Xmas
And its bright and boiling hot outside.
At least tomorrow I get to go to the bike show and pretend there’s still some punk-rock spirit left…
SOMEONE JUST KNOCKED ON THE DOOR!
Think i had 4 pints!
Not really into peer pressure to act any age. 😉👍🏼😂😂😂😂
Top work Caitlin. Loved that show XX
Going to binge watch some classics I’ve never seen. Not all in one night, or even one weekend, of course. #criterioncollection
Spent a lovely evening hearing peoples' stories, anecdotes and rubbish jokes. Laughter and warmth abounds.
Write a new book, please! Me and probably a lot of men could do with your sage advice of THAT M WORD.
#TheArchers
Radox bath (Stress Relief)
A book
Bed
sincerely, a 26yo with the knees of a 45yo xxx
Bliss.
Hubby and 2 dogs sharing sofa with me.
Bliss ♥️
Actually I sound more 14 than middle-aged
If I’m asked to play games after dinner, we riot.
Class emergency? The Waitrose delivery is trying to substitute their Kumquats or something?
Also, I think you may be following the wrong Brian Cox? Sadly there are already nobs on here...right @profbriancox.bsky.social?
If they brought back ‘Classic Haçienda’ with less noise and no violence I’d be right down there😂
‘Anal, Kentucky Shades…..
…..fresh pea recipes.’
……..yes.
✔️ Leftover sweets from Halloween
✔️ Scrolling on this lovely new platform
✔️ First half of a film
🛌🏻