Quit everything , and start again over 50?

another_casualty

LL.. you'll always be like my big sister I feel the love from you , and everyone on here
I lived in a house , as a child . Then when the family moved, it was a 4 bedroom maisonette . Then flats Etc etc.

I guess I do have time to explore out of lower parkstone , where I am now .
Bixarrely enough, there was a burglary in Ashley road the other day.
It was on the main news . It's about a 20 min walk from where I am.
It's the road that goes poole- branksome - Bournemouth etc.

I hope the next few weeks , brings some more houses and flats to look at.
At least I made a start.

Back in 2005, I was on a treadmill .. left knee gave way..I now have tendinitis in that knee. Didn't bother me much, until recently . On my hands and knees reading electric meters / plugging things into the TV etc.
Plus when I got new trainers recently .

I haven't thrown out the Pilates machine . Still in. Storage . Polar bear on a Pilates machine. The mind boggles.
It's a shame the gym I went to, is too basic . No mschines with pulleys.
Too tired to walk today. But will resume walking tomorrow.
Gyms here are hard to find . Not near anything viable, but I will search .

Played around on iPad trying to record stuff. Motivation is coming back.
There are times, when I wanted to do nothing .most of the time for months to be honest.

Gotta see doctor for first time tomorrow . They may put me down:).
I ordered more prescriptions . 1st time also. So,I'll see how that pans out.
Gotta change hospital appt. I booked in for a morning appt.
I need to do lunchtime appt . Now since the move. It's in may.
May could be a stressful time . I've got 4+ months here . Scary:)

wendym

Don't walk on a sore knee. Listen to bits of your body when they hurt.

When you form a band please call it Whales' Knees.

Smodlet

lessonlearned wrote: »

Smodlet. sorry you don't like "ooop north" but we arent all like your neighbours. :eek: ........some of us are quite civilised.

Hopefully your neighbours will move on. Is there Anything you can do to "encourage" them to move.

I know, LL. All the other neighbours around here either keep themselves to themselves or are brilliant; it's just crap that the only bad ones have to live the other side of a wall from us. Our neighbours the other side are the joint best we have ever had; just shows, it takes only one household to ruin a whole street. As to your last sentence, plans may be afoot... one shall see. It does not help that the LL is a slum landlord, does not care about his property or anything to do with it, least of all the effect his horrible tenants have.

The LL of the place opposite has done loads to his property in the time we have been here and the quality of his tenants reflects this... and they work for a living, surprise, surprise. The one next door has had two owners in that time and neither gives a you-know-what.

lessonlearned

Smodlet wrote: »

It really does depend on area and neighbours, does it not, Candygirl? We used to have nice both, once.

I used to live in a very posh market town just a few miles from Cheltenham - (Chelters dahlings:rotfl:) We lived in very quiet pretty little street - ours was a modest semi but there were some truly fabulous houses. Next door (the non semi side) was a lovely ramshackle old ex blacksmiths., it was huge with part of the garden being an orchard which was eventually sold off to developers. The old lady died and it was let out to a "family from hell" - real Gloucester roughnecks (sorry to all you nice decent Gloucester folk):D

The woman of the house thought it was huge fun to mimic the way I spoke (ok I am a bit Joanna Lumley) but she really used to lay it on with a palette knife and would encourage her obnoxious husband and delinquent kids to join in with trying to taunt me. Every time I stepped into the garden she would start.

It didn't matter what I did, no matter how pleasant we were to them she was determined to be Unfriendly, nasty and spiteful. She was even horrible to my little boy who was just two at the time.

They too used to argue a lot.......for hours at a time. As you say i don't know how they found the stamina. TBH it was the kids I felt sorry for......what a miserable childhood.

Eventually the council moved them on.......to a sink estate where they dumped troublesome tenants all together and more or less left them to it.

Smodlet.......I guess all you can do is console yourself that you and your husband are by far the better people. Yes I know that sounds snobby but you know it's true.

Karma will get them in the end. It always does. You'll survive and thrive, they won't. They will just slide further into the gutter.

It is always the children who have my sympathy. They are the innocent ones who get dragged down. With parents like that the poor little blighters don't stand a chance.

dreaming

AC - hope the new doctor is a good 'un. He/she may just have a new approach to help you regain fitness. My old doctor had no bedside (deskside?) manner whatsoever, but the one who has bought the practice is very nearly human and even laughed at one of my jokes! At least I think he was a doctor and not a computer technician.
I have only ever had one "not so good" neighbour and he was just a bit moany rather than "bad". Anyone with bad neighbours has my sympathies.
Smodlet - the pickled shallots were excellent, as was the sofa. I also found a tin of soup with best before date of Nov 2014 in the cupboard - may have that for lunch tomorrow. If I don't post again remember me with affection.

wendym

The landlord of my daughter's house from hell was all mouth and no action.

She was really scared of them. So was I, for her.

Finally, with infant twins and her house reeking of next door's pot smoking, she contacted the police. She was sure they would shrug their shoulders, but they didn't. Their approach was to lean on the LL, presumably because they could say he was allowing his tenants to deal drugs. They were eventually evicted.

I could tell you things about children my daughter has taught that would break your heart.

Does you good to have a laugh on a Sunday evening, doesn't it?

lessonlearned

Yes AC. Good luck at the quacks tomorrow.

lessonlearned

Aye Wendym.....its always the children who pay the price isn't it.

Glad your daughters neighbours got moved on.

Sunday night misery......never mind Sherlock finale tonight.

You gotta love old Benedict.......

dreaming

lessonlearned wrote: »

Sunday night misery......never mind Sherlock finale tonight.

You gotta love old Benedict.......

Just signing off but saw this. Have to say I haven't taken to this series very well. I'm a bit of Sherlock Holmes purist so it took me a while to warm to Benedict and the new-fangled ways. Enjoyed previous ones but this series has left me thinking that whilst I admire the "cleverness", some of the heart has gone out of it. Still, I didn't particularly like David Tennant as Dr Who and he is often voted as the best one. And I preferred Millennium (if anyone remembers/watched it) to the X Files. Does anyone watch Supernatural - very cheesy (mmmm-cheese) American series on E4. I absolutely love it, even if it just an excuse for the makers to play some good ol' rock music.

wendym

Our last neighbour but one was a miserable old git who just let his house collapse. Once a year he did 'gardening' ie attacking the one bush that defied him by living, in front of the house. Picture a 70 year old with bottle glasses, with a vast drooping belly, wearing only hobnail boots and a leopard print posing pouch.

When he moved to sheltered housing the property was sold for 50% more than the guide price, in cash, to someone who turned out to be an international con artist. There followed two years of visits and phone calls from debt collectors. He owed squillions.

dreaming - there is only one Sherlock Holmes - Jeremy Brett.