A good friend of mine in her late 40s was diagnosed with osteoporosis. They had a perfectly adequate 3 bed Victorian house,some of her snotty friends said,"what a sweet little house,just like our first home". Silly woman was just told she would need knee replacements,bought a modern 3 storey town house, 6flights of stairs, teenage kids,who yes then left home and a massive mortgage
When we moved in here - way, way back - both me and my wife thought '...Brill, we can just close off the stairs when we get tooooo infirm and live downstairs...'. We even had furniture made (a sideboard) that was to be our (double) coffin. Waste not want not. Nothing like planning ahead eh?
Edited to add: The last bit about the sideboard was a joke (ok, not funny). I designed the thing and my kids said it looked like a coffin - so it became our 'in joke'.
She knew she had health problems it was not a sensible move Steve. We only bought a bungalow because we wanted a decent size plot. Friends family kept saying ,'oh, buying a bungalow in Eastbourne to die in"."do you like living in a big town" don't live in Eastbourne,and you get a better plot with a bungalow
It was the work life thing,I was working 5 nights a week, either at work or in bed,dogs,could never visit the country or coast, desided to move there,but still needed to get to work. I had just taken a job at DGH and the Conquest, the year after we moved here. A couple of days after I handed in my notice,hubby came home, said his company had liquidated,I rang and recinded my notice,stayed there,a lot more money than locally,high cost living, London weighting,and night allowance. New job was days. Hubby went for over 100 jobs had a couple of interviews,was out of work exactly a year.
Anything medical, I usually do pretty well, and the birds and wildlife ones. I surprised myself on a couple of literature questions, and I recognised all the popular songs, knew a lot of the words but didn’t know who sang them! We are both crap at geography, there were a couple of countries mentioned that I’ve never even heard of!
I recognised 2 of the songs I know we're sung by The Communards. The complex math, science, forget it. Did quite well on the birds. The old man is a crossword fanatic
Monday night as quiz night on the BBC is good eh? I'm always amazed by the youngsters on Uni Challenge and the breadth of their knowledge. Only Connect is just infuriating to me - the only round I do reasonably well in is the missing vowels - and Victoria Coren Mitchell is amiably barking. Mastermind's baton has been ably passed to Clive Myrie who looks like he'll be there for decades. I'm even getting used to how he says 'Yeess' when the contestants get a question right.
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We are both crap at geography, there were a couple of countries mentioned that I’ve never even heard of!