Saturday, September 01, 2007

When you know you're past it

A booklet falls out of the Saturday papers. Idly you open it up and flick through. Hmm, nice bootleg dark denim jeans, you think.

Oh no. You have just admired something in the Boden catalogue.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

ha ha!!! Just wait until you are eying up those how to open jam jars more easily devices in the Innovations catalogue or fancying a pair of elastic-waisted slacks in the sunday papers...

Tim F said...

No, you're not past it. You're just middle class.

Past it is when you have a similar reaction to the Damart catalogue. Or wonder about a walk-in bath.

Anonymous said...

...or a stair lift or one of those rescue alarms for when you fall over in the garden - "Mrs Hope knew help was coming"

GreatSheElephant said...

I like Boden. It's a bit on the pricey side though.

Annie said...

Em - oops, busted... I was reading one which had come out of the Daily Mirror on the tube, it was filled with a million fascinating and useful items.

Tim, middle class eh? (But I never had a pony!) I still think that a nice cashmere twin set in the Boden catalogue would fail to get the teenies, or even the twenty-somethings excited. (I don't know what the kids would get excited about anymore, because I'm past it.)

Em, you know you want a Stannah stairlift.

Annie said...

GSE, so do I, apparently, though not so very long ago I wouldn't have given it the time of day...

Anonymous said...

ha ha!!! I´ve wanted one since I was 15. Although I was put off by an episode of Phoenix Nights when Brian Potter got stuck all night on his stannah stair lift due to a power cut...