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Another report from the exercise frontier

This is another in a sequence my occasional Rust posts reporting and commenting upon my late-life attempts (well, at 65 I don’t think I can qualify anymore as ‘middle-aged’) to improve the health-promoting aspects of my lifestyle habits via a self-devised dietary/fitness campaign. Firstly, [...]

October 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The annual medical

Last week my ageing Volvo passed its MOT and yesterday was my turn to present myself at my doctor for mine. I like my doctor, whom one might describe as old school, very much. He does not spend the consultation peering into his computer like many a GP but engages in eye to eye contact listening [...]

October 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

We’re all in this together

One of the topics of the moment in Parliament and the media is that of old people and the issues that surround them. I’m talking about such as national pensions, at what age people become eligible for them, the ever-growing number of senior citizens in the population (due to increasing longevity [...]

October 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

What a nightmare

Like many a Ruster a good night ‘s sleep comes to me rarely. As I write this I have had 3 hours sleep, awoken and will probably get back to sleep in a couple of hours’ time. I read somewhere that 8 hours continuous sleep is a recent phenomenon and in the nineteenth century such a break [...]

October 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hold the phone!

Call the quack. I’m reporting myself for a ginormous ‘senior moment’ overnight and am beginning to feel that those snivelling turncoats and junior family members who have been chipping away at my confidence and sanity by regularly telling me I need to go for a cognitive [...]

October 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

The power of sleep

I make no apology for beginning this post with three quotations: “Life is a sexually-transmitted disease and the mortality rate 100%” [R.D. Laing]; “I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” [Ernest Hemingway]; and “Early to bed and early to rise [...]

October 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

The complexities of life

Sometimes the issues attendant upon possessing and living with an elderly relative are, or gradually become, complex, disarming, enlightening and occasionally bizarre. Perhaps, simply because human society is such a contrary and wonderful thing, nobody should be surprised about this. In addition, [...]

September 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Knocking heads together

Leaving mana-a-mano ‘fighting’ (viz. boxing and mixed marital arts contests) aside because some might argue they’re so patently dangerous to brain health that the argument is slam-dunk unanswerable, what might be termed full-on ‘physical contact’ team sports – e.g. American football, [...]

September 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s coming to us all

Yesterday I went to see my father’s GP – as it were, behind his back – but in fact by arrangement and taking with me a letter I’d drafted (signed by him) stating that he gave me authority to speak with doctors and similar about his confidential medical information as and where [...]

September 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Peering into the future

It’s a funny old place, this 21st Century, politically-correct, equal opportunity driven, gender neutral or fluid (whichever it is, I’m getting confused these days) world we live in. The latest retailer to fall foul of the do-gooders – or is it ‘game changers’? – is John Lewis, [...]

September 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

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