Showing posts with label old age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old age. Show all posts
30 Sept 2024

Maudlin thoughts - NOT amateur radio

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My brother will be 80 in December. He seems to be going to several funerals of late. I guess we are now at an age when many of our friends a...
11 Apr 2024

Alive in three centuries - NOT amateur radio

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This woman, who died at age 110, was reported as living in the 1700s, 1800s and 1900s. If correct, she is the first woman recorded to have l...
24 Jan 2024

My impression of speed - NOT amateur radio

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Back in 2013, I had a stroke  and was in hospital for 3.5 months. Apart from feeling giddy and my poor voice, I made a good recovery. In the...
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13 Apr 2023

Acceptance? - NOT amateur radio

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Although in many ways I still feel like a teenager inside, I know I am an old man sadly. Some things that would have been easy 50 years ago ...
5 Jun 2022

Acceptance - NOT amateur radio

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As we get older, I sense a change.  Every day is a gift. What the future holds nobody can know. It seems right that we appreciate each momen...
28 Mar 2022

Wisdom and old age? - NOT amateur radio

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It seems 5 minutes since I was a young teenager!  Old age has descended on me suddenly. These days I feel older and frailer, as much as I do...
24 Nov 2021

Old age - NOT amateur radio

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This came yesterday from my brother.  As one of those old folk, I can relate to it. You know …… time has a way of moving quickly and catchin...
3 Sept 2021

"You'll be old yourself some day" - NOT amateur radio

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My mother-in-law said this about 50 years ago. At the time life seemed to be endless. Now I am 72.  As Michael Portillo (he was a famous UK ...
3 Apr 2021

What CAN I still do?

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Since my 2013 stroke I have been giddy all my waking time, had a very poor voice and get exhausted very quickly.  All the time I am conscio...
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25 Mar 2021

Perspectives on old age - NOT amateur radio

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Next birthday I shall be 73. Both my dad and granddad died in their sixties. I could die tomorrow or live for many years.  On the balance of...
17 Jul 2020

Getting older - NOT amateur radio

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At 71 and a few years longer lived than my dad and granddad, I guess it is fairly natural to contemplate mortality. Years ago, life seemed...
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19 Oct 2019

Old age - NOT amateur radio

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Maybe this is something that comes with advancing years, but these days I am grateful for small things. Years ago our full lives were ahea...
30 Jun 2019

Getting older - NOT amateur radio

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Late last year I turned 70. I am not sure if this is because I am getting (got?) old, but things feel somehow different. Maybe it is the r...
3 Dec 2018

Old age worries - NOT amateur radio

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In a few weeks I am 70. It is hard to see where the years have flown! As we get older, there seem more things to worry us, although few youn...