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cate said:
Hi Polly. Sending you lots of love from the Antipodes :grouphug:
Elaine is a very sensible friend & it sounds like you have lovely neighbours :D Be kind to yourself Polly. With so much stress in your life at the moment I would just go with the flow & try to relax. I must say however that Christmas is not just days away though! :eek: Don't say that. You almost gave me conniptions. I flatly refuse to even acknowledge Christmas until mid December! I'm not a Christmas grinch, but am just not into fuss. Lots of love to you & your hubby, xoxo Cate
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Sensible advice as always. I too am fed up with Christmas starting early. Several homes in the Close have their decorations up and the tree decorated.
 
MERRY CHRISTMAS *almost* !!!!! Lol!
We put our tree up but have yet to put any decor on it. The ambient light from the twinklers sure is a nice change though.
 
This is really funny.

I have friend who is 65. We started nursing together in 1969 and have been pals ever since. She lives close to London and last week, she and a neighbour, went into London on the train to do a spot of Christmas shopping. When they came out of the station, a young teenager jumped in front of them and demanded their handbags. Like a shot, Di leaped into the air assuming a karate pose and at the same time let out a huge scream. The lad gave a yelp of terror and took off like a cut cat. As he disappeared down the street Di yelled after him; 'You've just been beaten by a granny you bottom feeder you'
When I asked Di what she would have done if he had assumed a pose back, she said she didn't know! But was so annoyed by him that all she could think about was that she had photos of her children and grandchildren in her bag and that he would have thrown those away as soon as he had got her money and credit cards.
Dangerous I know, but you have to admire her.
 
View attachment 23349 Tomorrow is our 40th wedding anniversary! Where did the the years go? And also, where did that young, ginger haired size 12 staff nurse and young black haired brown eyed rugby playing sailor go? When I look at my husband I still see him as he used to be, but when we catch sight of ourselves in a shop window we look like 2 old fogies.o_O:D
 
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Polly said:
It never rains but it pours does it?
My husband, who is nearer 70 than 60 and has limited sight in his left eye, has had a retinal hemorrhage in his right. It is absorbing but was a close call. The trouble with us, is that when we look at each other, I see a 27yr old, black haired brown eyed rugby playing sailor and he sees a 25yr old tennis playing, green eyed red headed nurse who is still a size UK 12 dress :rotflmao::rotflmao: We ignore the fact we are getting old. It is a sobering thought when something like this draws attention to the fact. Last month he asked a young neighbour in his 40's if he could borrow his long ladder to reach our gutters which had grass growing in them. Our ladder was too short. 'You're not going us there at your age!' said the neighbour and did it for him... hubby was very thoughtful for the rest of the day December n6th is our 40th wedding anniversary. Fingers crossed we get there!:(
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It took me a while to find this, but I thought it was well worth it!
Congratulations to the 2 of you Polly!
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xoxo Cate​
 
I've signed up for aqua aerobics. Not too sure what its all about but my pal Marg and her sister in law are both as creaky as me and they have signed up too! My last physical was very good... the nurse and the doctor looked shocked at my low B.P. :biggrinjester: Anyway, I go to my first session the first week of January so I shall start a ticker then to see if I actually lose any weight. TBH the thing I'm hoping to find is that my joints ease up a bit.
 
Yay for surprising medical personnel! Aqua aerobics can be a LOT of fun, if you find the right instructor, and it tends to be easy on the joints.
 
Thanks everso much for your support girls. I'm looking forward to it. A close neighbour of mine has joined us as well. She broke her ankle three years ago and has had a nightmare time. The pin in her ankle got infected and, to cut a long story short, she almost lost her foot. She piled on a lot of weight in the year it took to clear up the infection and now, it is just a memory, she is raring to get in shape again.
I'm going to see if I can remember how to set up a ticker (I'd never heard of one until I joined here) so that from now until January, every time I log on it will remind me not to go mad over Christmas and eat like a tapeworm
 
But tapeworms are so tall and slender... They remind me of the (fictional) Chair of indefinite Studies who was convinced he´d grow taller if he ate tall foods like celery, carrots and asparagus - he certainly looked taller after losing most of his horizontal circumference.
 
Impromptu parties are the best aren't they? Yesterday was a dry, still day after all the storms so we put up the rest of our outdoor lights. We've done the ones around the fir tree and also the downstairs windows, but these were the ones for under the eves. No sooner had we got the ladder up, than our young neighbour opposite came across 'You're not going up ladders at your ages' and took over. His 4 children, only one is old enough for school, came across as well. So I put the wallpapering table up in the garage with the patio heater on, issued paper and felt tips and told them I wanted nice Christmas pictures. I was frightened if they were running around they would fall over something.Then their mum arrived so I thawed out some sausages and rolls, my husband lit the barby and we all had hot dogs. Other neighbours smelled them, and turned up with food to cook and before we knew it we had one heck of a party going on... Kids, dogs and adults.
 
You are so right girls. Before we moved here 3 yrs ago, we lived in a large old Victorian house on a very busy road. As people moved out, the buy to let brigade moved in. The area went downhill very quickly… drug addicts, antisocial behaviour, high crime no ‘normal’ resident left their house after dark and the police would only come to the road in pairs and then only in daylight. We had to drop our house by 20 thousand to sell it and it was worth it.
We now have a little house right on the edge of the green belt. There are 9 homes in this little cul de sac and if you hear a car, you know it’s coming to you or a neighbour. At night, instead of hearing junkies whooping and hollering, glass breaking fights breaking out etc, we just hear the sounds of the countryside.
We are told, our old house is a drug house now.
 
Happy belated anniversary!
Bummer about the old house/neighborhood. It sounds like the new spot is great. I can see the water aerobics class from the track at my gym and they seem to have fun.
 
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