What are you doing today?

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hollydolly said:
It's 5.30pm... I slept really badly last night, and then must have fallen into a deep sleep later because I didn't hear the plumber knocking at 8.00am, he didn't leave a card or a text, I only knew he'd been because I saw it on the Video ring doorbell

I've had a really busy day.. mowed the lawns front and back.. cut the hedges top and sides, and the branches of the trees which have grown at least 20 feet long ... . The garden recycle bin gets taken today so I like to ensure everything is cut before they empty it.. I notice I keep getting painful twinges in my right hip .. I'll have to keep an eye on that..:unsure:

After I'd put everything away from the gardening, I drove North to the nearest large town to return the new curtains I bought a couple of weeks ago.. I hate returning stuff, but I hate even more having to wait 7-10 days for the refund to clear in my bank.. why they can't clear it immediately as they do if I buy online, I'll never know...

Went into M&S food hall and bought some fancy foods I can't get in the regular supermarket.. then drove to Tesco to get the rest of the groceries, and the the ice cream... stunned to see 4 or 5 Chill cabinets without any food at all.. and prices on everything else just continue to shoot up sky high..

Took the country road back ( scenic)... rather than the motorway.. and got stuck behind a tractor the whole way... :D
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Wow Holly…….your days must be a lot longer than they are here……no way possible I could get all that done in one day.😲😮.
 

hollydolly said:
it's all free at source with the NHS... it's only when we have urgent operation needed and the waiting lists are long that we pay out of pocket or through our medical Insurance BUPA
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Isn't there an element of priority? By 'urgent operation' do you mean a live-or-die situation? Surely that patient would go first?

Is it a shortage of doctors? Did they all move to my neighborhood?
 
Pepper said:
Isn't there an element of priority? By 'urgent operation' do you mean a live-or-die situation? Surely that patient would go first?

Is it a shortage of doctors? Did they all move to my neighborhood?
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yes there's a serious shortage of not only NHS doctors.. but serious shortage of hospitals and hospital beds.. caused by a few things which I'd love to put here but would take me deep into political land...

No serious operations do not take precedence necessarily.. Clearly if someone was involved in a Car crash and was seriously injured they would take the place of the patient who is waiting for heart surgery... but otherwise no... this is why we have waiting lists of 2 or more years for Hip replacements etc..

It's a national crisis...
 
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Patricia said:
That's the same thought I have when I read some of her posts. Maybe in the past I could have kept up with her.
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Micka... I believe you're younger than me.. @Patricia.. how old are you ?

Not only did I have time to do all those things.. and do them regularly as you should all know ( newbies excepted).. after all those years.. but I'm not exhausted when I get home.. so for example tonight when I got home at 5.30pm.. I cooked dinner from scratch after putting all the shopping away in the outdoor freezers... then I swept up the leaves.. and if I could have gone out for the evening with someone I would still have had the energy.. ..unfortunately no-one to go out with..

..and here I am.. still wide awake @11.30pm
 
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hollydolly said:
Micka... I believe your younger than me.. @Patricia.. how old are you ?

Not only did I have time to do all those things.. and do them regularly as you should all know ( newbies excepted).. after all those years.. but I'm not exhausted when I get home.. so for example tonight when I got home at 5.30pm.. I cooked dinner from scratch after putting all the shopping away in the outdoor freezers... then I swept up the leaves.. and if I could have gone out for the evening with someone I would still have had the energy.. ..unfortunately no-one to go out with..

..and here I am.. still wide awake @11.30pm
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I'm 66.
 
I have a dodgy knee which gives me gyp and a long standing lower lumber probelm which causes problems now and then.. but I have a lot of energy, always have had.. my daughter is the same..in fact even more so than me
 
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hollydolly said:
well I don't do it for that reason.. but I hope it does help people to know they can get up and do things and not get old before their time :D
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@hollydolly

Hols, you are a high-energy person .. like my former Aussie mother-in-law and her daughter. Those two women were active daily, from morning till night - doing laundry, dusting, polishing, weeding, etc. M-I-L was 80 when I first met her (I was in my early 50's) .. she could keep pace with me when we went out to deliver her Avon orders. She is coming up to 103 .. or 104 this year (but now needs a walker).

Consider yourself fortunate for having so much drive!
 
Pinky said:
@hollydolly

Hols, you are a high-energy person .. like my former Aussie mother-in-law and her daughter. Those two women were active daily, from morning till night - doing laundry, dusting, polishing, weeding, etc. M-I-L was 80 when I first met her (I was in my early 50's) .. she could keep pace with me when we went out to deliver her Avon orders. She is coming up to 103 .. or 104 this year (but now needs a walker).

Consider yourself fortunate for having so much drive!
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Oh I do Pinks... always am aware of people my age who can do so much less. ..and very grateful that I can still do almost as much as I did 40 years ago...
 
hollydolly said:
Tell you what..I could live until tomorrow, but I may live for another 30 years, so I keep telling myself, I have to keep active because I would die from boredom doing nothing or very little for decades to come.... so that's what spurs me on. :D
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Having married and started with domestic chores by 18, I think I just finally burned out in some way. Maybe burn out is temporary, although I can't physically do quite as much as in the past.
 
Patricia said:
Having married and started with domestic chores by 18, I think I just finally burned out in some way. Maybe burn out is temporary, although I can't physically do quite as much as in the past.
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well I was given domestic chores at 7 years old.. had to do a lot every day before and after school. I was forced to leave school at 15, and go to work full time,. My mother died when I had just turned 18 , so I had to take over the whole household chores and do everything for my younger siblings and my father until I married and had a family of my own at 21.. and then I was also working several part-time jobs until my daughter was old enough for me to work full time again, so I worked.. and now I've been retired for 4 years.

I would have stayed working, except I hated the job I was in.. so I took retirement.. but if a job came up tomorrow, I would go back to work...
 
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hollydolly said:
well I was given domestic chores at 7 years old.. had to do a lot every day before and after school. I was forced to leave school at 15, and go to work full time,. My mother died when I had just turned 18 , so I had to take over the whole household chores and do everything for my younger siblings and my father until I married and had a family of my own at 21.. and then I was also working , several part-time jobs until my daughter was old enough for me to work full time again, so I worked.. and now I've been retired for 4 years.

I would have stayed working, except I hated the job I was in.. so I took retirement.. but if a job came up tomorrow, I would go back to work..
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hollydolly said:
well I was given domestic chores at 7 years old.. had to do a lot every day before and after school. I was forced to leave school at 15, and go to work full time,. My mother died when I had just turned 18 , so I had to take over the whole household chores and do everything for my younger siblings and my father until I married and had a family of my own at 21.. and then I was also working , several part-time jobs until my daughter was old enough for me to work full time again, so I worked.. and now I've been retired for 4 years.

I would have stayed working, except I hated the job I was in.. so I took retirement.. but if a job came up tomorrow, I would go back to work...
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Yes,, the lady who lived next door to me for years said having somewhere to be gave her a reason to get dressed and put on some make up.
 
hollydolly said:
well I was given domestic chores at 7 years old.. had to do a lot every day before and after school. I was forced to leave school at 15, and go to work full time,. My mother died when I had just turned 18 , so I had to take over the whole household chores and do everything for my younger siblings and my father until I married and had a family of my own at 21.. and then I was also working several part-time jobs until my daughter was old enough for me to work full time again, so I worked.. and now I've been retired for 4 years.

I would have stayed working, except I hated the job I was in.. so I took retirement.. but if a job came up tomorrow, I would go back to work...
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So, back to the make up. lol
 

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