
In my last post I mentioned the potential for loneliness when in your 70s, and I feel I ought to quantify my comment. Now...I really am a 'homebody' at heart. I don't mind my own company and get a lot of pleasure from music, books, crafting, sorting and tidying the house (actual housework....not so much!) but sometimes I need to hear a human voice, have a discussion, even about the British weather! When I don't feel able to see and talk to another human on a personal level, I can feel lonely.
I know how lucky I am to have a husband living in the same home, but sometimes I feel like a housekeeper. I keep house, order the shopping online, meal plan, cook, wash up, wash the laundry, dry it, do the ironing etc whilst my lifetime companion sits at his i-pad Candy Crush-ing or (as he insists) "researching" although Heaven knows what!!
I have to make the decisions regarding what to do each day. His standard response is "I don't mind. What do you want to do?"
I can't be alone in feeling this way. It will soon be our 54th wedding anniversary. I seem to have morphed from a mum of two with a very busy life, to a Nanna of 4 with a very close relationship to 2 of them, and now I've gone from babysitting to being no longer needed for anything! Empty nest??
I'm not moaning, really I'm not... but loneliness is a real issue.
Thank goodness for hobbies !
Can you relate to this ?
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On a much lighter note, do you remember the last photo of the cucumber plant with one very bendy fruit?
It actually put on a last spurt of growth! So this really IS the very last cucumber......
Number 23 😀
The task for the weekend (which I am delegating to Gray) is to clear the greenhouse and clean the glass ready for winter. I have other fish to fry....namely cardmaking for the Hospice....but I will, of course, be washing, cooking and making beds in between 😉
A woman's work is never done is it.....
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Thanks so much for popping in. Stay safe and well wherever you happen to be,
Have a great weekend,
Angie 💗