Just joined so I'm introducing myself.
Watch this postI will be 67 next month and retired from the many different jobs in my working life. I guess that I didn’t ever find my calling. I went to university at age 59 but when it was over it was too late to launch a new career. I wanted to lecture but students don’t want to listen to old fogies, so sadly I put aside that idea and settled into life as an eccentric dog owner.
I live in a beautiful Lancashire valley surrounded by hills that demand they be walked/climbed, how could I refuse?
I would like to do a bit of cycle touring but a recent diagnosis of spondylosis and some hip pain means that I may not be doing a world tour anytime soon!
I’m keen to make some friends as I have been on my own for a very long time now, my daughters don’t bother much with me and I don’t have a partner.I didn’t expect to be so isolated at this time in my life, isn’t it strange the way family and friends seem to forget us when we get past 60?
I will pop in regularly and hope to strike up some friendships.
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New, and still looking around, so I thought I'd just say Hello on here to see what happens!
I'm 66, am a Yorkshire lass - but have lived in Somerset for the last 10 years. Sold my house in Yorkshire shortly before being made redundant from my job down here (cookie . . . crumbles?) so still here in the South West. Doubt that I could have gone back home anyway - love my grandchildren much too much! I have a spaniel, love walking her on the hills near here - but she doesn't say a lot. Real-time chat is mostly confined to sometimes-confusing(!!) conversations with 2, 4 and 7 year-olds - so it would be great to hear from somebody nearer my own age.
Interests include renovating my house (will be glad when it's done . . but might feel the need to then do another!), walking (when not raining), gardening (new interest, which I find I am unexpectedly loving) - and I strongly suspect that I would like cycling . . . but keep putting off finding out!!!
Hope to hear from you.
I hope you find enough time to come to this site often enough to make an impact .....
Thank you for the welcome!
Hampshire is also beautiful - I had a week some years back in a rented cottage near the New Forest, which I had wanted to visit since I was a child reading all about the New Forest ponies.
Then I visited again a couple of years ago, taking my young grandson to Beulieu and also to Portsmouth Docks to walk round Victory and the other famous ship, the name of which I can't remember at the minute (grr!).
Yes, I do have a lot on at the minute - but nothing that involves actual chat to others (apart from builders, of course) . . . hence joining this site. I'm going to wander around it now to try to find my way.
Best wishes to you and your wife - hope you get chance to stop off in Somerset next time you travel to Devon or Cornwall! The Quantock Hills (where I live) are well-worth a visit, even if a little out of your way.
Bless you
Don't give up.
I have been a member here now for the best part of three minutes so thought it was about time I left a message. Pity that I can't think of anything interesting to say, but i guess that good manners dictate that I should introduce myself. I am not sure how we deal with real names here so will leave that for now, but I am a single man living in Gateshead who will turn 60 in two days time. I am happy with my lot, but also maybe considering a little bit of a reboot.
Looking forward to meeting you all.
Lovely to hear from you. I had a good day on my birthday (just quiet drinks with my brother and sister) and a few days off work either side, which was nice.
In Gateshead the weather is drizzly.....always!!!.....I quite like it really.
Take care and keep in touch. it would be nice to know more about you.
Bob
Can you claim on council tax ?