General Chat

Many thanks, Liz. Don't know Trevor very well, but I am amazed he is so active at 99. And he really is active - has his legs, his hearing, his marbles. And he can breathe pretty well. He seems to have missed all those things that cut life painfully short in this ex-mining area. Look at local obits and they are all born 1950, born 1960 - that sort of thing. And Trevor's wife died a couple of years ago after 70+ years of marriage. Amazingly, he is enjoying his late "single" life. Daughter and family live next door and say he is no problem at all.

I do think we often are "fortunate" to have bad health and get over it and live many fruitful years these days. New hips and knees, statins, warfarin, diabetes drugs Wife of a colleague at work about 1980 had a triple bypass aged about 30 at Papworth. And she was certainly still around 15 years later.

I think your OH may well have had an early bath 100 years ago. And me probably. And definitely my OH 30 years ago. But with all these advancements in medicine, we can push on. We can therefore have such a better quality of life and do so many more interesting things. Hopefully :-) :-)