The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

VJsmum

At school, we invented a word for that bit of fat on your arms (though I am sure we couldn't have had any of it).

We called it clibby.

nursemaggie

It's not fat VJsmum. It's just the muscle and skin have stretched with gravity, your too young to have it.

monnagran

Added to which, your skin takes on the feel and appearance of crepe paper.

Glamorous Granny?

nursemaggie

monna my DGS kept trying to smooth out the skin on my arms, especially inside my elbow. Then he asked why mine was all wrinkly. We had a few lessons in elderly skin while I was visiting them. I even managed to get down on the floor with him and his cars.

ivyleaf

I'm still surprised when I look down and see my mother's arms and hands, only they're actually mine Not improved atm by the fact that when I was in hospital 10 days ago, the first cannula the anaesthetist put in was faulty and she had to take it out again, and I still have a bruise covering the entire back of that hand. It's faded now, thankfully, but it was red and purple for over a week.
I put arnica on it repeatedly but i don't think it helped much really!

At least the other hand, that had the cannula that worked, is fine.

carolbee

When we visited our family abroad last year, my DH and I went to kindergarten and were the subject of "show and tell", my granddaughter spoke about us and when asked what she loved best about us, told the class it was my baggy arms!!

Out of the mouths of babes .....

monnagran

Ah! Don't you just love them?

Grandchildren I mean. Not baggy arms.

I don't know about you but I am outraged when I look at my all too obvious signs of aging. This is not me! I am forever about 35, only a lot wiser.

I don't think about getting older most of the time, but just occasionally I regard my ancient bod with some distaste. It can't possibly belong to me.
I feel really sorry for for people who were attractive and beautiful when young. It must hit them harder.
I never had much to offer in the looks department, that's why I have always used a little perfume. The least I can do for my public is to smell good.

It's time I went to sleep. I'm wittering again. Sorry.

x

nursemaggie

Oh that's lovely Carolbee. They're better than any comedy show.

When my Ds was about 5 we took him too see his big sister when she was working in Warsaw. Long before Poland joined the EU so lots of things were very behind like they had srips of land like in the middle ages, very slow trains with no corridors like we occasionally had when I was a child, agriculture was a mixture of middle ages and the 40s and 50s, Lots old communist stuff, along with very modern bendy trams that ran every few minutes.

We went to a modern Mall but Tescos was like when it first opened piled high and Cheap. We went to Krakow for a few days and even went down a salt mine that was full of carvings, tableaus, and even a church all carved out of the salt. Krakow was lovely. a medieval city. Craft markets and street entertainers, A big square with crafts and another full of cafes and bands playing. We asked what he liked best in Krakow expecting it would be the salt mine. The bagels which were sold on every street corner freshly baked. He must have had one every hour as soon as he saw one getting it's fresh ones delivered. He had them instead of sweet.

When we asked him what he liked best about the holiday he said the Trams. He also liked the Sunday morning market where he got 4 pokemon games for the price of 1. You see he was frugal even then.

mardatha

That sounds really nice Maggie. Where I grew up there were lots of Polish miners who had come to help us fight the nazis, I had a lot of friends with unspellable surnames lol. They were good hard working tough people. My dad's best pal was a tough wee man from Krakow who had been in the French Foreign Legion.
It must be an old-age thing, but lately I seem to be constantly comparing life now to life back in the 60s... not so much money but not so much debt. Lot more work and easy to get jobs. We lived on one wage and no housing benefit and we still managed to pay the rent and eat. I don't think life really improved all that much, it just looks like it did on the surface. Start to dig and you change your mind.

ivyleaf

Morning :wave:

Carolbee that's so cute

nursemaggie That sounds as if it was a really lovely trip


Been awake since I got up to go to the loo at 4.10 <Yawn> In the end I decided I might as well get up. Feeling very sick again _pale_

And I had an unexpected call from the hospital yesterday asking me if I'd be available to have my operation at the end of this month, only I had to ask to defer it until after Christmas, as I wouldn't be recovered enough to go and see my brother and sister-in-law when they come over just before Christmas.
I really want the op done, but don't want to miss seeing my brother for what may well be the last time, plus my stomach isn't sorted out yet. Tch. :mad: Oh well, just need to be philosophical about it !