Private Thoughts Made Public

I’m going to take this opportunity to wish a happy birthday to my mum, who is not ashamed of the fact that she’s 60 today. I bought her a card with a badge that read “It took me 60 years to look this good!” and she’s wearing it with pride She’s also driving around in her new car (ok, so she got the car a couple of weeks ago, but it was still a birthday present to herself) with her brand spanking new personal number plate on it. It took her a while to find a plate that she liked, because she’s got four initials, and UK plates only have groups of three letters on them. I had a look around for her and found a plate which had all four initials on it, but not consecutively, and also her age… I was rather surprised when I mentioned it to her and she said “Ooh, I like that one!”
I quite fancy the idea of having a personal plate myself, but I’m going to force myself to wait until next year, when I’ll be able to buy a plate that has my initials and my birthdate on it. My birthday falls on the sixth of the month, and 06 plates can only be put on cars registered between March and September next year…. so if I buy the plate I’ll have to get a new car to put it on. Which kinda makes it an expensive plate, doesn’t it?
Eeek… I just realised that both my parents are now pensioners… does that make me officially middle-aged?