Over 40's Moving Back and Catching Up
#7426
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Re: Over 40's Moving Back and Catching Up
One neighbour recently was making comments about needing decorating done, but I'm currently off decorating, used to be and still am good, too particular though, takes a long time, and had enough of it doing out the whole of our US house for sale (worked though, had sale contract within 24 hours).
Re: any kind of work (other than around my own house) I am really liking being retired and being free of work commitments.
Anyway, my new hobby is curiosity for learning the violin - although I can only do that when wife and cat are out the house !! So far, I am a better handyman than violinist but if you don't try then you never know, right?
I have never been any good at handyman work around the house, as Ive always lived in rental accommodation all my life, never learned!!! but Ive always envied people who are good at fixing things, and doing there own work around the house, now Im back home I will have to learn to do stuff, and I have to learn
a lot cause at the moment anything more then screwing in a light bulb is beyond me
I have always loved violin music, I used to live with a professional violinist in Reno, she practiced 6 hours every day, and my Mum and Dad came to stay with us way back in the late 1970's for a month, and Catherine's practising would send me Mum crazy I loved it though
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...-friendly.html
Here is a map that shows where in England property prices are either high or low.
Here is a map that shows where in England property prices are either high or low.
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Hi John & June,
I have never been any good at handyman work around the house, as Ive always lived in rental accommodation all my life, never learned!!! but Ive always envied people who are good at fixing things, and doing there own work around the house, now Im back home I will have to learn to do stuff, and I have to learn
a lot cause at the moment anything more then screwing in a light bulb is beyond me :eek
I have never been any good at handyman work around the house, as Ive always lived in rental accommodation all my life, never learned!!! but Ive always envied people who are good at fixing things, and doing there own work around the house, now Im back home I will have to learn to do stuff, and I have to learn
a lot cause at the moment anything more then screwing in a light bulb is beyond me :eek
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Aries..How are you feeling. I forget if you left family back in Oz. I think if your health improved things would get better for you. My best wishes to you, I would exchange with you even with all the rain you get. Just to do those little things that so many of you take for granted. The buses the places to visit I do hope you are soon able to do more. Health is such a bummer at times. Without health things can be so difficult. I understand that. Bless you and keep trying......
Yes, I still have two sisters and their families back in Oz, my parents having died there in 1977 and 2008.
I'm not so sure about enjoying all the rain back in Britain, it gets irritating and depressing after a while. With last year's bad summer I feel that I've suffered three winters one after the other At least when the rain stops I can go out for walks, not something I would normally do during summer in Adelaide.
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At the moment I am in the recovery room at Torbay Hospital following an angiogram. Some air has just been released from a pressure band on my wrist, and every 10 minutes or so it will be reduced even more. Apparently recovery is quicker than accessing via the big femoral artery in the groin. I had that procedure in 2006 at an Adelaide hospital, and suffered problems in recovery. Things are better than expected which is a relief.
Yes, I still have two sisters and their families back in Oz, my parents having died there in 1977 and 2008.
I'm not so sure about enjoying all the rain back in Britain, it gets irritating and depressing after a while. With last year's bad summer I feel that I've suffered three winters one after the other At least when the rain stops I can go out for walks, not something I would normally do during summer in Adelaide.
Yes, I still have two sisters and their families back in Oz, my parents having died there in 1977 and 2008.
I'm not so sure about enjoying all the rain back in Britain, it gets irritating and depressing after a while. With last year's bad summer I feel that I've suffered three winters one after the other At least when the rain stops I can go out for walks, not something I would normally do during summer in Adelaide.
Anyway, really glad to hear things are better than expected.
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Many years ago I would have been surprised by this, but not after an experience when I lived in Melbourne. I was up a ladder and asked a friend to hold onto my electric drill, but I was astonished when his finger accidentally switched on the unit and he dropped it in surprise, the drill bit digging a hole in the padding of a stool. His defence was that he had never held a drill in his life, yet he was aged in his forties.
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At the moment I am in the recovery room at Torbay Hospital following an angiogram. Some air has just been released from a pressure band on my wrist, and every 10 minutes or so it will be reduced even more. Apparently recovery is quicker than accessing via the big femoral artery in the groin. I had that procedure in 2006 at an Adelaide hospital, and suffered problems in recovery. Things are better than expected which is a relief.
Yes, I still have two sisters and their families back in Oz, my parents having died there in 1977 and 2008.
I'm not so sure about enjoying all the rain back in Britain, it gets irritating and depressing after a while. With last year's bad summer I feel that I've suffered three winters one after the other At least when the rain stops I can go out for walks, not something I would normally do during summer in Adelaide.
Yes, I still have two sisters and their families back in Oz, my parents having died there in 1977 and 2008.
I'm not so sure about enjoying all the rain back in Britain, it gets irritating and depressing after a while. With last year's bad summer I feel that I've suffered three winters one after the other At least when the rain stops I can go out for walks, not something I would normally do during summer in Adelaide.
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Someone came earlier to ask what I would like for breakfast, so I said eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomato and baked beans on toast. I was offered a choice of cereals and toast! I suppose in a cardiac ward a full English breakfast would be frowned upon.
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Perhaps we can swap some weather? However at least the sun is shining this morning on my bed, though what the temperature is I have no idea.
Someone came earlier to ask what I would like for breakfast, so I said eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomato and baked beans on toast. I was offered a choice of cereals and toast! I suppose in a cardiac ward a full English breakfast would be frowned upon.
Someone came earlier to ask what I would like for breakfast, so I said eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomato and baked beans on toast. I was offered a choice of cereals and toast! I suppose in a cardiac ward a full English breakfast would be frowned upon.
It'll be weetabix and skim milk there.
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Cheers
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Perhaps we can swap some weather? However at least the sun is shining this morning on my bed, though what the temperature is I have no idea.
Someone came earlier to ask what I would like for breakfast, so I said eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomato and baked beans on toast. I was offered a choice of cereals and toast! I suppose in a cardiac ward a full English breakfast would be frowned upon.
Someone came earlier to ask what I would like for breakfast, so I said eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomato and baked beans on toast. I was offered a choice of cereals and toast! I suppose in a cardiac ward a full English breakfast would be frowned upon.
When are you getting out of there?
Cheers
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I think it has been sold to a Chinese company BUT one which apparently really wants to keep the British aspect of it, and all the tradition. So much so that they are committed to using only British wheat. When, as this year apparently, the wheat harvest isn't great, they can't make as much Weetabix.
But this isn't official, just what I think I recall reading.
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Just from memory, I think it is both.
I think it has been sold to a Chinese company BUT one which apparently really wants to keep the British aspect of it, and all the tradition. So much so that they are committed to using only British wheat. When, as this year apparently, the wheat harvest isn't great, they can't make as much Weetabix.
But this isn't official, just what I think I recall reading.
I think it has been sold to a Chinese company BUT one which apparently really wants to keep the British aspect of it, and all the tradition. So much so that they are committed to using only British wheat. When, as this year apparently, the wheat harvest isn't great, they can't make as much Weetabix.
But this isn't official, just what I think I recall reading.
Just got back from NY, NY where my only daughter was married yesterday. Fabulous ceremony at Collegiate Middle Church and reception at The Library at The Public Theatre and Joe's Pub in East Village. Amazing venues.
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I'm back home from hospital and am waiting for a cleaner to come. It amazes me that she is so energetic and efficient, and also has a second job which she described as "in entertainment at a hotel."
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Maybe they will add melamine to make up the wheat deficit :-(
Just got back from NY, NY where my only daughter was married yesterday. Fabulous ceremony at Collegiate Middle Church and reception at The Library at The Public Theatre and Joe's Pub in East Village. Amazing venues.
Just got back from NY, NY where my only daughter was married yesterday. Fabulous ceremony at Collegiate Middle Church and reception at The Library at The Public Theatre and Joe's Pub in East Village. Amazing venues.