ailbhe | Yippee! I'm OLD! (Reply)

Finally, finally, FINALLY, after years of waiting and wondering why I hadn't inherited my mother's genes in this regard, I HAVE A WHITE HAIR.

OK, it's only one, in my eyebrow. But it's a start!

Pillar-box red hair with blue eyebrows, you are in my future. I can SEE YOU.

Other symptoms include really, really enjoying playing word games after the children are asleep, thinking the Reading Festival kids are incredibly cute as they rock up in their mothers' cars and their mothers help them carry the tents, sleeping bags, beer and novelty hats down the street, and clucking in irritation at postal delivery operatives who leave little red rubber bands lying around everywhere.

I'm so happy. If I work hard and age well, maybe I can be a bit like