Old Lad
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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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