We believed you Allotment Boy, just thought you did things differently to the rest of us.
In another post I said I left here N.E. at 4am arriving at the M25 at 8am and there I stopped for an hour until the crazy school run was over. Going the right way down a one way road a car came screaming at me and the woman driver using language i had never heard even in the Army asked what I thought I was doing and to get out of her way. I pointed out I was going the right way she was wrong where upon she got out of the car clutching a steering lock and as other cars had backed up behind her blowing horns and yelling i backed up. Never again I thought so took the break at the services then into the Gas Works at Bow and off across to Westminster Gas Works Store and the road back home. Our own Cushy Burrerfield and the Keel row Lasses were ladies compared to those school run women. I do not know how you did it. Frank.
AB - surely that shouldn't have happened with your lampshade? Glad you were ok, but yes, that could have been quite nasty I've put a hat on, so that I can take it off to you. My ex hubby had a friend who moved down south to work in London. I don't know how anyone can do it for any length of time. We visited a couple of times, and I struggled with that, and I was a good bit younger than I am now! Some things are more important than a treadmill, but I fear that many people become so used to 'having stuff', that they can't envisage living a more simple life. My sister and I are both 50s girls, and have been caught out, but my sister retired a couple of years ago. Her hubby was already retired, and they are very comfortable for various reasons. As her son had moved back up here with his family, [twins, and now another little one] it meant she could help out there too. I like solitide, and want to move somewhere quieter, but it will largely depend on the girls, and whether they can afford to live on their own. Not easy nowadays. That's a whole subject for the Curmudgeon thread, Frank/Dad - school run mothers. Hideous. Meant to say - Lyn, I can totally understand why your OH wants to stop. That kind of work is very rewarding, but a terrible toll on your body.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Do it Fairy! My OH was told he wouldn’t live long enough to draw his pension and retire. So, he left as soon as he could and we had made life changes aged 54.our kids were independent. he will be 70 this year, go for it!!!
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
LP - I know it makes sense. I'm glad it worked so well for you and hubby too. My sister's good friend has had a massive health scare recently, and that also brought it home. She's only 63, and it highlights the fragile thread we all negotiate our way along every day, never thinking it could happen to us. I've been very fortunate in many ways, and had huge struggles in others, and it's time to weigh up what matters.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes, Fairy, go for it! I think it's a good decision. You'll wonder how you ever had time to go out to work.
Though I think I was lucky, I had 4 children and a husband who wanted me to stay at home and look after them, he could afford it. I was a nurse and the hours were very difficult anyway with a young family. But I had lots to do at home, started a small holding with Jersey cows, chickens and ducks. We bought an old ex-farm in Kent. Then moved to France and did the same again until he died when I was 47.
Been quite busy this morning. Big bedroom clear up, yet more towels and bedding to wash after the family visit.
Nice day so have been pruning the grape vine over the door to the garden. It's a bit of a monster. Not finished yet but suddenly legs feel very tired so come in for a Ryvita and salad. Have gained half a stone over the year so back to being careful.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Yes Lyn I meant to say it's all very well the government wanting people to work in their late sixties even seventies but there are lot of jobs that older people just cannot do. The old saying that hard work never killed anyone is not true sadly. It's not just physically demanding jobs either. In my case it was inactivity, despite being skinny as a rake my Blood sugars & cholesterol were rising because I was stuck behind a desk all day, having come from a lab background where I was on my feet or moving around a lot of the day. They say sitting down is the new smoking so I better get off of here & do something
Exciting news Fairy 😀😀😀. More than a little jealous 🤢. I’m sure you’ll use your new found time to throw yourself into the things you want to do, rather than the things others tell you you have to do. Delicious freedom 🎈🎈🎈
@Fairygirl I'm with everyone else: if you CAN do, I would certainly DO it. I work 2 days a week and I'm never bored, never short of stuff to do and I'm sure you'd be the same.
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In retrospect I think I was very lucky none of it hit me!
In another post I said I left here N.E. at 4am arriving at the M25 at 8am and there I stopped for an hour until the crazy school run was over.
Going the right way down a one way road a car came screaming at me and the woman driver using language i had never heard even in the Army asked what I thought I was doing and to get out of her way. I pointed out I was going the right way she was wrong where upon she got out of the car clutching a steering lock and as other cars had backed up behind her blowing horns and yelling i backed up.
Never again I thought so took the break at the services then into the Gas Works at Bow and off across to Westminster Gas Works Store and the road back home. Our own Cushy Burrerfield and the Keel row Lasses were ladies compared to those school run women. I do not know how you did it.
Frank.
I've put a hat on, so that I can take it off to you. My ex hubby had a friend who moved down south to work in London. I don't know how anyone can do it for any length of time. We visited a couple of times, and I struggled with that, and I was a good bit younger than I am now! Some things are more important than a treadmill, but I fear that many people become so used to 'having stuff', that they can't envisage living a more simple life. My sister and I are both 50s girls, and have been caught out, but my sister retired a couple of years ago. Her hubby was already retired, and they are very comfortable for various reasons. As her son had moved back up here with his family, [twins, and now another little one] it meant she could help out there too.
I like solitide, and want to move somewhere quieter, but it will largely depend on the girls, and whether they can afford to live on their own. Not easy nowadays.
That's a whole subject for the Curmudgeon thread, Frank/Dad - school run mothers. Hideous.
Meant to say - Lyn, I can totally understand why your OH wants to stop. That kind of work is very rewarding, but a terrible toll on your body.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
So, he left as soon as he could and we had made life changes aged 54.our kids were independent.
he will be 70 this year, go for it!!!
A A Milne
I've been very fortunate in many ways, and had huge struggles in others, and it's time to weigh up what matters.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes, Fairy, go for it! I think it's a good decision. You'll wonder how you ever had time to go out to work.
Though I think I was lucky, I had 4 children and a husband who wanted me to stay at home and look after them, he could afford it. I was a nurse and the hours were very difficult anyway with a young family. But I had lots to do at home, started a small holding with Jersey cows, chickens and ducks. We bought an old ex-farm in Kent. Then moved to France and did the same again until he died when I was 47.
Been quite busy this morning. Big bedroom clear up, yet more towels and bedding to wash after the family visit.
Nice day so have been pruning the grape vine over the door to the garden. It's a bit of a monster. Not finished yet but suddenly legs feel very tired so come in for a Ryvita and salad. Have gained half a stone over the year so back to being careful.
I work 2 days a week and I'm never bored, never short of stuff to do and I'm sure you'd be the same.