Getting the Buzz at 80+. Not a Minister for Loneliness. Let’s have one for Excitement!
Adrenaline: challenge, activity, people and shared fun….the best antidote to depression, the pick me up, the buzz in life at any age.
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Fitness at 83? Can you lift a 12 stone weight?
What do we mean by this word ‘fit”? We seem to have got ourselves into a nonsensical world with this idea of fitness. What does it mean to be fit at 80+?
Amazing Desert : Oddly delightful. Like Old Age?
Ancient Badlands: Aren’t they amazing? Terrain which has survived wind, rain, sun and everything for years. Now showing its history with every inch of its surface.
Lets E-lim-i-nate the Negative! Old Age is a Great Age.
For the majority Later years are great years! Why so much sad negativity everywhere?
Let’s shout it!
Retired? Think Again. But Who are You now?
Retired’ is not an occupation, but there it is, on the form, at the bottom of the list.
Or maybe, even worse, you are expected to tick ‘None‘. But that isn’t true, is it? We haven’t stopped.
Curiosity about Clydebank : Cunard, Singers and the Blitz.
Love that in my lifetime I have seen the great industrial cities of the UK at their most productive but dirty stage. Saw them collapse and suffer and am now seeing them rebuilding and seriously re greening themselves: Sheffield, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow… And proud of it too. They are amazing places.
“You are Old Grandma Williams” the Young One said…
‘You are old Grandma Williams,’ the young one said,
‘But your hair has not yet gone white
and yet you repeatedly stay in your bed.
Do you think at your age that is right?’