victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,170
#1
Yes I am trying to do the garden but it is a struggle all to much for my legs now ,so we might try to get a smaller house but we like it so much it would be hard to move away after all the years we have been in this one 25 years now we did try to move to the highlands some years ago but that fell on its back.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#2
Why do you struggle when the housing association provide gardners.?There comes a time when we have to accept our health problems.Moving house is a big upheaval,You have your car so can get out and about.
We can all have off days.I think the time will come when I will need a stair lift.I have to,pay for gardners .
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#3
One of the most difficult things with old age is realising sometimes we need help. My advice to Vic would be swallow your pride and accept whatever help you can get.
My right arm was paralysed when I had polio as a child but there was never a problem I could not overcome. I could still move very large paving slabs, mix cement, pull a pint, cook for and serve my customers, now I have a mini battle opening some of my medicine packets.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#4
Yes Jan everything becomes a struggle.Even typing is not good.I have to sit down in between jobs.Putting out rubbish sorting things.Opening jars etc.I cannot do much in my garden these days just trimmed the rose bush out side my front door.I make my bed in stages.I did make some soup the other day .Always taking a rest break.
it is lovely and quiet here.I don’t have any modern gadgets.Washing up a chore.
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,170
#5
Sorry I put this one up it will not happen again
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#6
I’m sure you will bounce back Vic.Just an off day for you.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#7
Sue Nicholas wrote:I’m sure you will bounce back Vic.Just an off day for you.
Exactly, we all get them regardless of age.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,170
#8
I am not going to stop posting but going to be more careful on how and what I say.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#9
Why not pave over your garden Vic, and then complain the Soutern Water are incompetent as their sewers are overflowing with rain that used to soak into your garden! Everybody else seems to?
The same comments in French below. (Shocking if true
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cn05nxv2z9po
Just a thought. Isn't it odd, that it's only since the publication of Roger Deakin's 'Waterlog' (1999 'A simply wonderful book...the perfect union of writer and subject...a delightfully eccentric masterpiece; no poolside or riverbank should be without it' Mail on Sunday), when the middle classes discovered 'wild swimming', that anyone's given a toss about the state of our rivers?
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#10
Just to say, I discovered 'wild swimming' in the Glaslyn near Beddgelert in 1988.
Back then it was called 'cooling off'.
Sadly, not being middle-class, I didn't write a book about it.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus