Some friends are just too persistent!

Ten and more years ago, when I lived and worked in West Africa and lived on a diet of gin and tonic and beer, I topped 16 stone.

My life was not sedentry: I walked to and from my car and often excercised my arm when lifting food to my mouth.

We're told that we 'baby-boomers' have more money, health and ambition

... than any generation before us. Many of us have bought our houses, and most of us have benefitted from medical treatments unheard of when our parents needed them so we should be pleased.

We should be pleased that our grown up children who can't afford a house 'return to the nest'

We should be pleased to baby sit our grandchildren whilst their parents work to buy the newest gadgets and have the best holidays

I'm not really into celebrity
When some celebrity turns up on the box, or in the papers, a state of ennui comes upon me. I don't know which one's which, who's on the way in and who's 'so last year'.
They all seem to have appeared, like so many sorts of coffee, at some moment whan I wasn't looking. In any case they're all about twelve years old and with more money than i will ever see. Most of them seem only to be famous for being famous so i can't see that even with my limited talents i couldn't be one too.