The Young Fogey Test

I am a female (new) 'young fogey'. It's a a term used much anymore, and was always applied almost exclusively to males. I add 'new' because my definition isn't slightly different to the strictest one. Now I am 30ish I am comfortable (ish) in my own skin and know without doubt, I am one. Now perhaps it's just an English thing, and won't apply to friends on the other side of the pond but here is a checklist, off the top of my head:

1. Known to wear tweed, a lot. Even in spring.
2.Wearer of pearls, often to bed, in the bath....
3. Fond of fogey scents like English Rose and Lavender.
4. Prematurely addicted to gardening - includes lusting after well trained Wisteria, Rose Gardens, and getting borderline fanatical about weeding and borders.
5. Antiques Roadshow fan.
6. Increasingly inclined not only to accidentally fall asleep on the sofa (before 8:30pm), but actively seeks opportunities to nap. Additional features: snoring and waking with a start - 'what, what, where am I, what?' and the like
7. Moaning with more regularity, particularly about, weather, things 'these days', the behaviour of young people, manners and the general lack of them etc etc.
8. Revelling in academia - I could have just carried on getting degrees forever - sitting in stuffy libraries, ideally chewing a pipe (only joking about that last part).
9. Regular user of arcane language and retro slang - 'hurrah!' 'jolly good'! Fond of quotes, esp. latin.
10. Wishes men still wore hats and tipped them, and wore suits more often - I see photos of my Grand-Father in the 1930s on of his 50 mile bike trips, dressed in a three piece tweed suit or plus fours and think - oh how fabulous!
11. Collector of tea sets. Purveyor of fine teas. Would prefer afternoon tea in a nice hotel to a night partying.
12. Prefers old people to children (except my own darling boy of course). Generally discussing the 1930s, 40s and ancient history.
13. Listens to radio 4, reader of the Telegraph and many fusty, dogeared books that smell FABULOUS.
14. Passionate beleiver in the compulsory reintroduction of cocktail hour
15. Rejector of mobile phones, i-pods, blackberries etc - all that japping about private business in public - ick
16. Wants a return to - real diner cars, and compartments in trains (with real crokery, glassware snd service please), supermarkets with windows and real air, proper village stores, butchers, fismongers and ironmongers, more people to train as dress-makers and tailors (I am sick of all this chemical clothing made in the Far east), a return to buying local food - why do we have to buy crab from indonesia when there are a million of the blighters in the sea right opposite my house, real people answering the telephone instead of some automaton in a call centre, banks with booths - why should we have to talk about our finances in front of a queue of impatient people?, real farming - monocultures, intensive rearing of animals and dousing the land in chemicals is wrong, ugly, harmful to health and boring - bring back meadows!, real letter writing, slowness and calm - people are too stressed, too fast and too busy and it makes everyone unhealthy and unhappy, milk deliveries (I don't drink it but it was so nice as a child finding a pint on your front step and then drinking the cream off the top), children being children, real politicians - statesmen and women who were educated, eloquent, brave, honest and tough. I could go on and on....
17. Loves to 'dress for breakfast' - ideally the type that would involve silver service in a ladida hotel.

You must get the gist by now!!! What a bore I am! Many of you may laugh at this - or it may seem utterly foreign / ridiculous but sometimes you just gotta accept who you are - AB trys to suggest things to make me 'more funky' but I resist, I am a female new young fogey and proud hahaha!!