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Sitting here looking out over our East facing garden 2026 4 8

and I am wondering how many more springs can I expect to be able to do this? The latest thing is is our house worthy to continue living in it, and/or how much will the cost be to put things right again? Not that I per se have any bigger problems for it is not my health that is adversely affected but the health of my wife! She complains that there is something in the house which detracts from her feeling comfortable in it. Last week we had her cleaner visit just before Easter in readiness for our Easter guests who stayed over Saturday night to leave on Easter Sunday. So i took the opportunity to bounce the idea off her a lady by the name of Johanna. Happily she remarked that she couldn't smell mold anywhere but thought that maybe in the bathroom area approached through a vestible (foyer or artic entry) from our Patio entrance, which leads into a hallway before the bathroom-cum-Sauna area, and a guest bedroom, located in our garage, where she thought she could sense increased h...
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Growing old gracefully..? 26 4 2

Not always so easy in this messed up world... Take for example Mr D.J. Trump aged 79 or 80 the least qualified of all the presidential candidates it seems to me certainly during my life-time hell bent on changing the world to his prescriptions? Him backed or blackmailed by the Zios of the Middle East, thinking they can bring about regime change in Iran "2 weeeks away from developing nuclear armaments" this last 20 years, whilst my friend, a Persian these last 30 + years, is siding with them, and I'm losing my temper with him, not because I support the Islamic Revolution of 1979, which took over his country, which I don't, but because it is one of the few countries that has supported the Palestinian ppl, in resisting the Genocide being conducted by "The State of Isreal" murdering the women and children since 7th October 2023, with apparent impunity as far as the majority of Western Powers are concerned. Noteable exceptions Spain, Sweden and Norway, amongst...
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The Double Whammy of an MI followed by t Unprintable..? 2026 3 31

Believing these past 24 years almost that I got to draw the long straw my brother J the shorter one like our Da before us who regretfully died 1945 8 4 from Leukemia in Canburra OZ en route to the Japanese theatre of War... My elder brother J junior always for as far as I can remember being diagnosed with a myloma which for most of his soon to be 88 yrs has been in remission. Getting instead my MI at 62 on 6th April a few days short of 24 yrs ago after my father's male antecedents his dad dying in what i presumed to be a coronary event aged between 50 and 52, when my father was 8 yrs old, and famously declared "Now my Mam won't have to buy him any more beer", an Irishman who's own father came from Dublin, an RC presumably, whilst his own mother's father also hailed from the emerald isle, from Clonas in t west of County Monaghan, bordering Donegal, an Orangeman for his sins, when normally never the twain shall meet. But suffice to say it was my grandfather...
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The best time of day will be in a few minutes' time..? 2026 3 30

when I take my first work out of the new day... Today leaving my blog open to see whether anyone gets tempted to visit it, before later I write more..? Today the person I met first was the man who has what used to be the town's "Alko" given over today to a clothes store and cafe: walking his dog a medium sized brown coloured exceptionally I greeted it in a half-hearted attempt to befriend it when I dare say it was taken aback because on so many former encounters I have avoided being friendly because of the attitude of its master, but today's encounter maybe a turning point? Next was a lady visitor to our shared swim hut, a lady who in the last couple of years became a member of our walking club but whose name I still haven't got to retain in my poor memory for such things. Leaving the "kope" after my swim sea temperature -0.5 degC, I took the path to skirt the East Harbour when my next encounter was with this lady branishing her hand held camera boas...
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This expert's 10 reasons for Longevity in humans..? 2026 3 23

Yeah, this 95 year old man on TicTok put these following reasons for longevity including his own after devoting 35 years of his life to the study, when my wife offered he only looked 82: losing his wife of 61 years 8 years ago, when he also wished to die. Before applying the knowledge he outlined below. Becoming himself fitter than during the period he was grieving her once he knuckled down and 2 years later claiming to be fitter than during the caring period for Margaret, his wife... 1) The quality of your relationships at age 50 2) Having "Purpose" in life, "ikigai" in Japanese which translates to "a reason for being", pronounced ee-key-guy, both behavioural and biological 3) Movement not Gynastical but constant low level movement, eg Okinawans sitting on the floor and changing their positions much more than if they were sitting in a chair...walking >7000 steps per day. 4) Muscle: Grip strength 5 kg squeeze measured by dynamometer >30 3 - 5% ...
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When one can no longer take anything at face value..? 2026 3 14

The West leading with how the USA and Isreal, according to its Media, are winning the current war in the Middle East against Iran, whilst Social Networking sites have it the other way round: how the Iranians are in the driving seat which will either be confirmed or denied within a few days, but bear in mind this second option was missing for most of my 87 years...lol Look at it from another perspective that of my dear wife who, like her father before her, and her younger brother, who recently passed away, were all avid readers of the Western Media: her father gifting her a subscription to the main Swedish language newspaper in the country, her younger brother boasting of how he subscribed to two newspapers a day: one in the morning, one in the afternoon. Whilst I personally rarely read any newspapers, but rather got on with my "ignorant way of life"..? But in my old age playing catch-up of e.g. how during the 1960's the British put down a million Kikuju "terrorist...
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Just another beautiful day..? 2026 3 11

Yeah, but how many more has one a right to expect when the world at present is so full of suffering and strive, so much bloodshed in the middle east, and in many of their once sacred places??? Here in Finland, we its ppl are just emerging from one of the worst winters in a good few years: 2021 when I last walked any distance on frozen ice visiting our out-lying islands, in more usual days only seen across the sea! And its ppl I'm going to venture to say more friendly than usual, since we have shared the experience of the cold climate together: cars usually no time to stop at Zebra Crossings, now slowing down in good time, and stopping even though the zebra stripes are unseen covered, by snow and ice... When I am reminded that in these northern climes of Norway Sweden and Finland it is the strong community spirit which contrives to hold us closer together, never more apparent than in the depths of winter? Today with social media such as X formerly Twitter, Tik-Tok, You-tube and ...
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