One of the many delightful surprises in this Strange Land of Old Age, has been this calm acceptance, this adjustment to later life. The change in the focus of pleasures that one cannot imagine at all when you are younger.
I have had Thirteen Extra Springs to wonder at. Absolute free and delightful gift.
How lucky we are, this new generation of Older People. We have been given bonus Springs!
(This blog was originally written as a guest blog for the Centre for Ageing Better. The Blog The Future of Ageing? A Challenge for the Next Generation. about the Herald Scotland piece this week carries on the new theme) “The State of Ageing 2019 “ is this years report by the Centre for Ageing Better. No it…
Easy blog this week. It was written for me! I only had to do the interview. Delighted that the Herald Scotland accepted it! A 2 -5 page spread too. Sorry my pic has failed to eliminate the fold in the centre of the magazine. Don’t actually have twisted fingers…. The journalist Vicky Allan was great.…
What a delightful thought, that our lives are rather like that of a grape. Our tended youth, fizzing twenties, settling mid years leading to later years where we develop to this stage of ripe fullness: a time when we reflect back on life, review it, relish it and extract from it all the best of what we have experienced.
Due in hospital on Tuesday for major surgery. At 83, not without risk. And I have a choice. It is recommended, as necessary and wise, but not at this moment critical. Choices like that in your 84 th year are interesting. Different. You know that Terry Pratchett’s marvellous Discworld character DEATH is lurking somewhere. You probably wouldn’t…
Images of bent old people are not acceptable in the new version of Old Age. It is a preventable problem, not a result of ageing.
If you are middle aged, better stop it. Pilates now!
