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dorothy52

Evening all. Happy new year.

Thought I would start a new thread with no real title, just somewhere we can meet for a virtual chat. Hope I don't end up talking to me self lol.

Sitting up in bed disgusted and disappointed cos I forgot to put the electric blanket on and me kindle's flat lol. And I turned the heating off an hour ago so I'm bluddy freezing......sigh

I will be 58 this month, been and done the meno, got three ace adult kids and three fab grandkids. Still in reasonable shape, bit wrinkly and could do to shift a few pounds so I will make a start.......soon and let you all (that's if any one reads and is remotely interested of course) know how I get on.

Bum feeling a bit warmer now that the old E B kicking in. Life is good.

Night night;)

mumps

dorothy52 wrote: »

Evening all. Happy new year.

Thought I would start a new thread with no real title, just somewhere we can meet for a virtual chat. Hope I don't end up talking to me self lol.

Sitting up in bed disgusted and disappointed cos I forgot to put the electric blanket on and me kindle's flat lol. And I turned the heating off an hour ago so I'm bluddy freezing......sigh

I will be 58 this month, been and done the meno, got three ace adult kids and three fab grandkids. Still in reasonable shape, bit wrinkly and could do to shift a few pounds so I will make a start.......soon and let you all (that's if any one reads and is remotely interested of course) know how I get on.

Bum feeling a bit warmer now that the old E B kicking in. Life is good.

Night night;)

Hi, hope you got warm enough. I have a New Year's resolution to spend less time on the internet so flying visit morning and evening. I am also going to join a pilates class. I need to do some positive stuff for me. I am a carer for my husband who has been disabled for over 25 years and am a long distance carer for aunt in her 80s with dementia. That has kept me busy this year.

I am a bit older than you, 63, and have 4 kids and my fifth grandchild is on the way so looking forward to that.

I am about to go out and get a loaf and some milk, going to walk instead of drive. Part of the healthy new me.

Hope your thread goes well.

Dia_Pita

Hi, hope you don't mind me joining you. I am 57 with three children and 6 grandchildren. Both me and DH are early retirees and are just getting used to spending more time at home together and doing the things we have always wanted to do (that do not cost a lot).


I too have put on more than a few pounds over the last few years and am going to try to lose them this year.


I have had a lazy morning and have been wandering around in my dressing gown. Now time to get my face etc on and buy a new calendar (we bought a planner for kitchen but need a calendar for the lounge) and a new bulb for my sewing machine and some rice (to fill the hand warmers I am making for DGC).


TTFN

dorothy52

Hello ladies, Mumps we have spoken on the Widows thread, I so admire the way you care for your Aunt. It's a thankless task isn't it, love? I cared for my mum long distance as well, had to take a career break to do it. I remember going through the meno and wanting to apologise to her for being so unsympathetic when she was but she was in Lala land by then and thought I was her sister!

Lovely to meet you Dita, looking forward to hearing about your retirement. 8 years to SRA for me and making tentative plans. Should downsize, costs a fortune to heat the big family home, but it is a bungalow, detached with a massive garden which I love, so that will be a big decision.

Good luck to all of us on our weight loss quest. A pound a week would do me, but it is so much harder now, in our fifth decade isn't it?

Frosty here but wrapping up warm and an hour in the garden until rigor Morris sets in!!!!

PennyForThem_2

Hello Dorothy52

I welcome you! Oh god I hate this - so pedantic of me but this is Over 50s moneysaving and we already have Kittie's widowhood thread which is all about emotion and huggie-feelie support.

Is this a non-widow/widower huggie - feely alternative? Happy with that but won't be contributing. Feel that there should be an alternative just put in an occasional post about money saving so it is on subject.

dorothy52

PennyForThem wrote: »

Hello Dorothy52

I welcome you! Oh god I hate this - so pedantic of me but this is Over 50s moneysaving and we already have Kittie's widowhood thread which is all about emotion and huggie-feelie support.

Is this a non-widow/widower huggie - feely alternative? Happy with that but won't be contributing. Feel that there should be an alternative just put in an occasional post about money saving so it is on subject.

Eh? There are thousands of threads on this site that don't necessarily pertain to moneysaving! Are you telling me off?! You say you won't contribute, but post something like this? Sigh.

margaretclare

PennyForThem wrote: »

Hello Dorothy52

I welcome you! Oh god I hate this - so pedantic of me but this is Over 50s moneysaving and we already have Kittie's widowhood thread which is all about emotion and huggie-feelie support.

Is this a non-widow/widower huggie - feely alternative? Happy with that but won't be contributing. Feel that there should be an alternative just put in an occasional post about money saving so it is on subject.

I'm not a widow now although I used to be.

Money - was surprised to find that my weekly pensions payment arrived in my bank last Friday. It normally arrives Tuesday, and Tuesday is a BH only in Scotland.

DH and I still pay into SimplyHealth monthly (used to be HSA). From time to time we look very hard at all our outgoings and we've sometimes wondered if this expense can be justified. However, we get a refund from them for dental, optical, podiatry, and most recently, DH was in hospital for almost a month. We got a payment for every night he was in. And he's on another waiting list for reconstruction of L leg - it all helps.

dorothy52

Hi Margaret, still psyching meself up to the garden. It really is freezing out there. May manage half an hour. In a bit. How is your OH? I know he was in hospital recently from reading other posts

margaretclare

dorothy52 wrote: »

Hi Margaret, still psyching meself up to the garden. It really is freezing out there. May manage half an hour. In a bit. How is your OH? I know he was in hospital recently from reading other posts

He's home, minus 1 knee joint but still plus 2 legs. One leg is in a huge splint. He went to see a different, more specialised, clinic on the 22nd of last month and is now on a different consultant's waiting list for further surgery, reconstruction not just revision. Probably Feb or March at Oxford - we're in SE Essex. Can't go anywhere, but at least he can do a bit more than we were told by the rehab people in the local hospital. We definitely don't need the 4 x carer visits daily - when he does need help they'd not be there!

Have discovered Oakhouse Foods mini-meals. Neither of us is leaping around so don't need big meals. He's been advised to try to lose some weight but to have protein for tissue repair. So we have eggs in some form for breakfast daily - that's more protein than you get in hospital.

Just hope for a better and more positive New Year. It's bright and sunny but temperature still probably not above 0 C. Gardener coming next week to clear up leaves etc. The snowdrops will soon be poking through.

dorothy52

Oak house foods are fab. Used them for mum, really tasty and just the right portion. She had hip problems in later life and needed a wheelchair. I was a lot slimmer then with all the excersise pushing her around lol. Trouble is she kept forgetting who was behind her, pushing. God, please don't let me develop dimentia

margaretclare

dorothy52 wrote: »

Oak house foods are fab. Used them for mum, really tasty and just the right portion. She had hip problems in later life and needed a wheelchair. I was a lot slimmer then with all the excersise pushing her around lol. Trouble is she kept forgetting who was behind her, pushing. God, please don't let me develop dementia

Amen to that, dorothy! I just can't imagine it.