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[BR14]

I reckon you're better off with that attitude than curling up in a ball and moaning

When I worked for Age Concern visiting housebound "frail and elderly" people (not sure if they still use that term but they did in the 1980s) I found there were basically two types: the ones who spent all their time slumped in their chair bemoaning their fate and saying they couldn't do things because of the terrible state they were in; and the ones, often in a much worse state, whose attitude was to just keep on going regardless and {insert whatever debilitating medical conditions they had} be damned. The latter always seemed to get a lot more out of life, be much happier and more comfortable, and seemed to live a lot longer too

[BrilloPad]

I reckon you're better off with that attitude than curling up in a ball and moaning

When I worked for Age Concern visiting housebound "frail and elderly" people (not sure if they still use that term but they did in the 1980s) I found there were basically two types: the ones who spent all their time slumped in their chair bemoaning their fate and saying they couldn't do things because of the terrible state they were in; and the ones, often in a much worse state, whose attitude was to just keep on going regardless and {insert whatever debilitating medical conditions they had} be damned. The latter always seemed to get a lot more out of life, be much happier and more comfortable, and seemed to live a lot longer too

I am not going to slump in a chair bemoaning my fate! I am going to post about it on CUK.....

[PhiltheGreek]

Can we stop talking about fate please? Lest it feels tempted.

Summer Squash Soup (with no bread), for those who care.

[NickFitz]

Summer Squash Soup (with no bread), for those who care.

Everyone cares about soup

[NickFitz]

T-1h:30m if anyone wants to follow along on the correct date: Apollo 11 in Real Time

[DaveB]

Can we stop talking about fate please? Lest it feels tempted.

Summer Squash Soup (with no bread), for those who care.

Minestrone (no, not that one) and a couple of slices of wholemeal.

[DoctorStrangelove]

The latter always seemed to get a lot more out of life, be much happier and more comfortable, and seemed to live a lot longer too

So they lived longer in pain & discomfort.

I'm struggling hard to see the positive side of that.

There's a contract I found.

With stuff I know about.

It's in fecking Cornwall.

So that's out.

T-1h:30m if anyone wants to follow along on the correct date: Apollo 11 in Real Time

I rather think I'm Apolloed out.

In other news, it's good to see that Scotland is leading the UK in something, if only in drugs deaths.

They're even doing better than the Septics, which is going a bit it must be said.

*** All this is put out by the lying BBfeckingC World at One so it's probably all lies.

[WTFH]

T-1h:30m if anyone wants to follow along on the correct date: Apollo 11 in Real Time

Are you sure?
It looks like seconds to me...

edit: if I click the wrong link!

[NickFitz]

The rest of the pâté for lunch, on white toast this time

[NickFitz]

So they lived longer in pain & discomfort.

I'm struggling hard to see the positive side of that.

The inimitable Mrs. M****k of Lansdowne Grove would strongly disagree with you if she was still here. She was 91 years old, with arthritis and other disorders of age that meant she could only just get around her own house. But she was president, secretary, and treasurer of the old folks' group that met once a week in the church hall, despite being the oldest member. She was extremely scathing about the other members moaning that they were "too old" to take on such responsibilities.

Her husband had become permanently disabled and bedridden when she was in her mid-50s, so she'd got a clerical job with Shoefayre up the road, which she did from home as she was also full-time carer for her husband. They brought down a load of files for her to work on, and after a few days she'd phone them to tell them they were done, and they'd collect them and deliver the next lot of work. She did that until she was 86 years old, when her husband finally died and she retired

I used to go and visit her first thing Monday morning, as an hour spent chatting with her over a cup of tea set me up for the rest of the week