Too old to be midlife and too young to be old, SO WHAT AM I

Question: what do you call a woman who has been through midlife and menopause but would rather pull her grey roots out one by one than be called old?

Welcome to the brave new world – and rather confusing territory – of the New Inbetweeners. Forget the coming-of-age TV comedy about teenage adolescence, this is at the other end of the life scale. A coming-of-old-age, in fact, when you feel neither one thing nor the other.

Surely an old person is someone who is really old. I’m talking Zimmer frames, Velcro slippers,