Turned 40 recently, celebrated by binging nine series of Father Brown. What old person thing should I do next?

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1. Keeping up appearances

   Sharpe

   Poirot 

   Midsomer Murders

2. 45 and working my way through the entire back catalogue of Midsomer Murders. Embrace the agedness!

3. Murder She Wrote

4. Open a pack of Werthera Originals, make a cup of tea and binge watch Heartbeat or Midsomer Murders.

5. Start on Foyle’s War, then you can really go to town on Heartbeat

6. That’s not a midlife crisis, that’s peak efficiency—cheers to leveling up in style!

7. Visit Antiques Centeres and Garden centers at the weekend.

   Watch Agatha Christie movies.

   Complain about “young folks” music

8. Revisit sitcoms from your twenties. I recently rewatched Spaced, and it’s still brilliant.

9. 40, going on 104.

10. Go to a farmers market, garden centre, or farm shop, and buy a variety of chutneys and sandwich pickles

11. Battlestar Galactica. The 70s version.

12. Leave your keys in the fridge, walk into a room and have no idea why you are there

13. Darling buds of May

14. Take up gardening, birdwatching, and knitting

15. Already considered starting a Bed & Breakfast in Spain?

16. Tut disapprovingly at teenagers and then begin your next sentence with *”When we were kids…”*

17. Sunday evening’s are sorted for you now.

    Countryfile followed by Antiques Roadshow.

18. Dinner ladies Victoria wood

19. Antiques Road Trip. 49 and I bloody love it.

20. Time for last of the summer wine

21. Take a leisurely drive about an hour away from you to an award winning garden centre and spend about an hour lousing about looking at the fine vegetation before indulging in a new gardening project. Maybe grab a coffee on the side.

    (this is coming from a person who has two forty-odd year old parents who have recently decided to spruce their garden up).

22. Vera.

    What a woman.

23. Poldark.

    No, not that one. The old one with Robin Ellis. Back when period dramas were more than just pretty people in fancy clothes.

24. Have you considered tales of the unexpected? 

25. Sit in the pub with someone of similar age – drinking real ale – and comment on how young everyone under 30 looks.

    ”He’s getting served straight away, looks about twelve to me”, “I’d have asked for ID me”, “I swear people are looking younger and younger every year Dave…”, “you’re not wrong mate.”

26. The Detectorists.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04jy45z

27. My wife and I really got into Inspector Morse. It seemed like a 40-something thing to do. Then afterwards, Endeavour.

    If you like ‘vicar solves crimes’ stuff, I’d really recommend Grantchester. Like a slightly more heavyweight Father Brown.

28. Miss Marple and Vicar of Dibley.

29. Dude, you gotta do a giant jigsaw of the titanic.

30. Potter about a bit in the garden.

31. Have you watched Jonathan Creek?

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