Ian is middle aged now.

[Taylor]

Happy birthday









And cush

[Dan_K]

Now that beard makes sense...

Happy birthday!

[Ben98]

Happy Birthday! :D

[Ian]

Thanks very much

Slightly torn between building a large Lego set and riding my bike, but as the sun's shining the bike wins

[Wildcat]

Happy Birthday.

In true Barrington style we are going for a big mountain ride and we will hopefully see time snow too.

And it is a very big Lego set, has 5 books of instruction.

[Wotsits]

Happy Birthday Ian, hope you have a good day

[whitestone]

Happy birthday Ian. I think I can remember mine

Plenty of snow up here - it's about head height (for the cat!)

[Zippy]

Happy Birthday sir

[Alpinum]

Happy birthday Ian... old man

Best wishes from Switzerland

[johnnystorm]

Ha ha ha ha ha!

/Jokes on me in November

Also many happy returns to Mountainbaker today too, a few years off Ian's advanced years.

[Bearbonesnorm]

Happy birthday Ian ........... however, will people who have yet to reach their 40th year please shut up, reading your posts while limping round the house, is making me feel very old.

[ianfitz]

Happy birthday to Ian

I'll be 40 this year too. On the 3rd day of the HT550!

[Alpinum]

Happy birthday Ian ........... however, will people who have yet to reach their 40th year please shut up, reading your posts while limping round the house, is making me feel very old.

No need to wait so long to do some damage to the body....

[barney]

40 and still a medium... that's just showing off !!!

Happy birthday.

[Fen-yak]

Penblwydd Hapus Ian

[Scattamah]

Hippy bathday Ian...ya big kid :) And to MB too...hope ya both had a corker.

Greetz

S.

[Ian]

Thanks for all the birthday messages! Had a great day yesterday. Don't feel old at all

[ctznsmith]

Happy Birthday Ian.

What are we classing as middle aged so I know if I've reached (passed) it without noticing?

[whitestone]

A couple of months after reaching forty I was listening to the radio and there was short piece that reckoned life "now began at fifty". B***er! They moved the goalposts

Middle aged is a bit of an outdated concept now, it doesn't seem to apply to any particular age range, back in the 1960s & 1970s it seemed to apply to those of an age who'd had a family that had flown the nest but who hadn't yet retired.

I came across a quote from Joe Friel: "You are only old when you use age as an excuse"

[Zippy]

I came across a quote from Joe Friel: "You are only old when you use age as an excuse"

Oh crap, I'm old...!