DannyBoy

which is to say he needn't have volunteered, aged 35, with a wife and two young boys, aged 2 and 3, his father Catholic Irish, his mother of Orange Order Northern Irish extraction, and he already working in a job which was vital for the UK's war against Hitler's Germany. Suffice then to say he volunteered because of a misplaced idealism: all his younger brothers-in-law had already joined up: Frank Wall serving in Italy, Eddie, my wife's elder sibling, elsewhere over seas, young George in Egypt, only the older Bob, in the same age group, remaining home not yet called up because of his similar age, or possibly a year older? But 4 years on, en route to the Japanese theatre of war, stationed in Canberra Australia, and presumably deemed to being A1, in health, before his embarcation, he had contracted Leukemia, which swept him away in record time, of only a few weeks or months, certainly not a time measured in years. As a budding Chemist, by profession, I thought he may h...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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% ...