Hi from a Kiwi/Aussie living in the best country in the world - Australia!

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Hi - I am a week old Newby and already enjoying reading and replying to your comments. We live in Sydney and both my Husband and I are retired. I play a lot of social tennis which gives me lots of exercise and plenty of laughs. We both love movies, art and socialising with friends. I have just recovered from Lymphoma but feel great now and we both try our hardest to ward off dementia. Any suggestions would be welcome.
 

Hi Robin. Glad to welcome you on board.

It sounds like you are both doing a lot of good things that will help you have a happy and healthy retirement.
However, my best advice about dementia is not to worry about it too much.
If it is in the genes then it is probably only a matter of time.
If I live long enough I expect to succumb, based on family history but having walked this path with my mother, aunt and mother in law I am not fearful. Life, even with a damaged brain, can still be mostly enjoyable if you are loved.

My philosophy?
Live in the present and do what you can and what you enjoy doing now so that when clouds begin to gather you will have few regrets.
 
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Welcome Robin, good to hear you're doing well. My advise about dementia is to read as many posts on these forums as you can. Try to figure out which of us has dementia, then use that as a comparison to how you're posting. Kind of like me, right now, rambling on ..

Sorry, the coffee is really good this morning and I feel a little giddy. Welcome to the forums, have fun and enjoy !!
 

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Welcome for Oregon, USA. Warding off dementia is a good goal. On days I've have little sleep, I'm sure it's set in. On other days, I know it hasn't.
 
Thankyou for the welcome and very good advice Warrigal. I think you are definitely following the right path. Hope to have many more conversations with you. Robin
 
Hi Ameriscot, your rellies know what they're doing! There are lots of Scots in New Zealand and in fact my family come from there (Dewar's but no Whisky unfortunately). I love all things Scottish - bagpipes and dancing especially. Our local cemetery have an open day once a year and along with tours of the crematorium are a Scottish band - I go every year. Robin
 
:wave: Hi there ROBIN Welcome to our forum.

I keep mentally active by reading and doing crossword puzzles. I do 3 every day. (They're in my local newspaper.)
 
Welcome Robin & Kia Ora-----------I love Sydney. I have spent the past 25 years between NZ and California spending 6 months in each place with homes in both. I have made a number of trips to Oz and visited all the major cities except Perth. I could if I was younger live very comfortably in Oz. My second wife that I met here in California is a Kiwi and we were married for 23 years and now amicably divorced.
 
Hi Robin, welcome to the forum, but, I have to question Aus being the best country. :kiwi-fruit: enjoy your tennis, I loved playing a few years ago now.
 
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Welcome Robin & Kia Ora-----------I love Sydney. I have spent the past 25 years between NZ and California spending 6 months in each place with homes in both. I have made a number of trips to Oz and visited all the major cities except Perth. I could if I was younger live very comfortably in Oz. My second wife that I met here in California is a Kiwi and we were married for 23 years and now amicably divorced.
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Hi Lon, I am glad to hear you enjoyed Aust. and NZ and especially Sydney. We have visited parts of US but only a day in Los Angeles and it poured with rain the whole time. Met lots of lovely Yanks though all over the world and found them to be extremely polite friendly people. Thanks for the welcome and I look forward to talking with you again. Robin
 
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Hi Robin, welcome to the forum, but, I have to question Aus being the best country. :kiwi-fruit: enjoy your tennis, I loved playing a few years ago now.
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Hi fellow Kiwi, I love the silver fern Avatar. I think it was the weather that convinced me to stay in Australia. The cold wet weather in Auckland where I came from was just awful. All Aussies admire the NZ Prime Ministers though, we seem to always have either complete idiots or very wishy washy ones. Most of us would vote for Helen Clark as UN Chief. Hope to talk with you again and thanks for the welcome. Robin
 
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:wave: Hi there ROBIN Welcome to our forum.

I keep mentally active by reading and doing crossword puzzles. I do 3 every day. (They're in my local newspaper.)
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Hi Falcon and good on you for managing to do 3 crosswords a day. It would take me all day to even get near to completing one. I prefer Sudoku but I really don't think they improve my brain. One thing I do though to improve my memory is learn, off by heart, poems. I just love Banjo Patterson's Aust. poetry and can recite a few of them. At present I am learning Wordsworth's 'Daffodils'. Robin
 
Oh the memories....Me and Husband made four trips to Perth, Australia. We took our youngest boy, twice. My cousins migrated, 1973. We just loved and enjoyed every minute of our month vacations. Ward off dementia....Love, working, jig-saw puzzles and framing them. My one son, had the legs of a card table cut, It was funny we had books stacked and a board across, before touching the legs. Use to do crouching, (after 50 yrs. of not picking up a crochet hook). It took the youngest son and family to have a baby, (always bought something for baby). It's going to be a little girl. Pink finally Pink. Well it was drag out the patterns, get yarn, where are the hooks...do I have any hooks? Thinking to myself, I'm outta my mind! 50 yrs. Oh nuts, going for it. Just had to joined a crouch group, and the first question I asked, "Does anybody know how to crouch booties"? Dead silence in the room. Reply was priceless, "Oh we buy booties". Also like knot-tying, and macramé.
 

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