I made a cuppa a few weeks back and found it unusually black. It turned out that mum, the previous user of the kettle, had put the teabags in it rather than in the cups.

I'm not sure that all these things are necessarily senior btw. I (now 60) am capable of this sort of thing but I remember from an early age, running upstairs in a hurry to get something only to forget what I'd wanted.

I guess, these days, it's getting to be an area I find difficult. There are things that maybe we've always done and things that maybe we can laugh off (perhaps reasonably) as getting older but, say with dad when I wheel him to bed at night on the commode and he occasionally says "I'm not sure what I should do now" (use the frame to manoeuvre to sitting on the bed), I see that as possibly part of his stroke related condition deteriorating or other confusion...