Possum thinks she's afraid of spiders and always used to get me to take the one she always found in the bath. She's a shower girl but nevertheless would have abdabs. Now she's living in on her own in term time with no mummy to rescue her she's learned to deal with spiders - feather duster and window as she's not allowed to kill them.
As for attitudes and phobias and knowledge, your brain is capable of learning till you stop breathing and I wouldn't even rule out trampolines for some at 57 or older but not for me with my back and knees and I don't do hill walking or horse-riding anymore either. Pity.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
That brought back memories of my Mum chucking the cat in the bathroom at home and closing the door. Wait for sounds of a scuffle, open door, cat and Mum happy and relaxed. Job done.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
It did nearly kill me but did manage to walk around three major cities in Italy for up to six hours a time plus other tours, would still rather do that than face up to a big black spider!
I was always the smallest child in the class so I tended to get picked on. It was better when I got into seniors who were all girls, because we had a garden in the grounds, where I could always find a handy invertebrate. If anyone gave me a hard time, I only had to approach them brandishing a mollusc or arachnid and they fled in terror. I never was scared of any small critter, but I still can't bear to handle a large slug without gloves.
The only thing 57 is too late for is babies and trampolines ... anything else is do-able ... dodgy knees permitting
The maternity unit where I worked delivered a 62 year old mother. IVF of course. And I'm not breaching confidentiality, she was all over the newspapers.
@Obelixx, I left off riding in my teens and started again when I retired.
My daughter and I were always terrified of spiders, until a year or so ago, she bit the bullet and enrolled on the spider phobia course at Bristol Zoo. She's no longer scared and funnily enough neither am I - although I do draw the line at having one in the bedroom!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Possum thinks she's afraid of spiders and always used to get me to take the one she always found in the bath. She's a shower girl but nevertheless would have abdabs. Now she's living in on her own in term time with no mummy to rescue her she's learned to deal with spiders - feather duster and window as she's not allowed to kill them.
As for attitudes and phobias and knowledge, your brain is capable of learning till you stop breathing and I wouldn't even rule out trampolines for some at 57 or older but not for me with my back and knees and I don't do hill walking or horse-riding anymore either. Pity.
@Obelixx, I left off riding in my teens and started again when I retired.