Old Lad
A journey through old age
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I’ve just been to a funeral. It reminded me of how much rituals play in our lives. And as I get older I find some rituals reassuring and helpful. When you are younger of course rituals can seem exasperating and pointless – its the urgency of youth to get things done. There are long standing…
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Arriving in your seventies has been described as snipers alley. You can be congratulated in having dodged the illnesses that are fatal and if you are extra lucky have also dodged the disabling chronic diseases. A comforting statistic is that the average expected lifespan of a healthy male at 70 is 20 years. But this…
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I used to enjoy doing “the big shop” when the family were growing up. We would all go together and combine it with snacks in the supermarket cafe. But as the family grew and children left home it became more of a necessary chore. And as I have got older its become a much more…
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I’ve never been a fanatic over cars. I was never one of these people who drooled over high performance motors. To me a car was a necessary item to be able to travel from A to B, preferably in comfort and with good load carrying capacity. My favourite car was the Volvo 240 Estate car…
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There seems to be more anxious people about than when I was younger – or perhaps that’s just the rose tinted spectacles of old age! However I do think that now that we have 24 hour rolling news, multi media churning out scare stories, and a type of journalism that does not believe in treating…
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So what do you think about GPs these days. That’s a question I am constantly asked seeing I was in the business for quite a long time. Despite the fact that I have not practised for 10 years I still get stopped in the street or the supermarket for a quick ad hoc consultation. In…
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I am regularly told as I get older that I should undertake “Decluttering”. I take this to mean that I should get rid of what my family refer to as “Stuff”. Having lived in the house for 40 years there is a considerable amount of stuff about. We all have it and it seems to…
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I never used to like whisky. My only experience of it when a child was as a relief for toothache. Hold a piece of cotton wool soaked in whisky against the offending tooth to deaden the pain. But the taste – ugh! This of course was one of my Gran’s remedies. Growing up in the…
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As the journey into old age progresses its natural to think of all the things that can go wrong. Most people worry about major events like heart attacks and strokes. We can take precautions to prevent these but they are events that are often out of our hands. Day to day of course we notice…
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