Writing & Poetry
Popular travel writing workshop – Weds 17th July 2013
- Monday, 20 May 2013
Learn how to write travel blogs and articles, keep a travel diary or to record experiences for yourself or others to read.
The travel review site and advice forum for travellers aged 50+, Silver Travel Advisor (www.silvertraveladvisor.com), is once again encouraging aspiring travel writers to attend their travel writing workshop, to be held on Wednesday 17th March 2013 hosted by cruise line Noble Caledonia at their offices in Belgravia, Central London, at a cost of £55 per person.
Concessionary bus passes
- Monday, 20 May 2013
There continues to be much discussion about Concessionary Bus Passes and its cost burden upon the nation.
Osteoporosis, cholesterol and my sixties.
- Thursday, 16 May 2013
At the age of 54 I felt pain in my left hip. It alarmed me. As an infant I had congenital dislocation of left hip which followed by one year immobilisation with complete correction.
Reflections on my National Service.
- Thursday, 09 May 2013
In early 1954 I completed my apprenticeship as a plumber and the very next day was called up for National Service in the RAF at Cardington, then quickly to Bridgenorth for basic training (square bashing) on about £1 a week.
Mobility madness
- Wednesday, 08 May 2013
It's becoming quite a problem, apparently. Mobility scooters are running amok, of you believe half the complaints. “Slow down!!!” - “Whoah! She nearly got me!”follows me in one way or another wherever I'm near people.
Am I a hooligan?
Senior citizens (even disabled) can help others
- Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Senior citizens can do so much to help others even if they are disabled. Edward Priestley is a prime example of this.
He lives in West Yorkshire, but he contracted severe aplastic anaemia (bone marrow destruction) from workplace toxic chemicals. His hospital doctors didn’t think he would live - but decades later his blood count is normal!
Still crazy after all these years
- Monday, 29 April 2013
As the years go by, Man's hair disappears,
From most of one's hairiest places.
Only to sprout in your nostrils and ears,
With odd shades of grey, in most cases.
Old words new
- Friday, 26 April 2013
Do you remember What’s My Line? where the guests had to do a mime and the panel had to guess what their occupations were? I often wonder what mime I could enact to demonstrate what my hobby has been for the last 25 years. You see, I sit at my desk for hours on end compiling cryptic crosswords.
I say hobby but, to be fair, I do from time to time get rewarded for my labours even if it’s only a free CD from a jazz magazine or a meal out now and again from a local free paper or more often just a complimentary copy of the journal my crossword appears in. On more than one occasion, however, I have been told that there is ‘a cheque in the post’.
All fall down
- Thursday, 25 April 2013
Jill’s slippers were a gorgeous blue with gold on, oh so nice,
But they were loose and underneath were slippery as ice:
‘I know them well’ she said and smiled ‘I always take good care’,
But Jill fell down and broke her crown - she slipped-up badly there.
