Author Archives: john graham

Rugby Balls Up🏉🏉

Posted on March 22, 2020 by john graham

This post follows my earlier post about the impact of Coronavirus on the Rugby world and my once excellent all winning team  Leicester Tigers. They have not been playing well all season  ,,,,  dropping the 🏉 …… not catching the … Continue reading →

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Corona V GrumbleSmiles

Posted on March 18, 2020 by john graham

You can’t let all this endless talk about Coronavirus get you down. Goodness knows there are plenty of reasons to  grumble about it :- confined to the house for the next twelve weeks – nationalised house arrest courtesy of Bodj … Continue reading →

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Brave ??? NewWorld

Posted on March 15, 2020 by john graham

We are waking up in a New World, but we don’t know yet if it will be a Brave one.    That will depend on how much changes and how much we can hold on to …….. and for a … Continue reading →

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Rugby Balls🏉

Posted on March 8, 2020 by john graham

The Rugby Football Union are extremely concerned about the corona virus now that two International matches against Italy have had to be cancelled.     They are very worried about the loss of income if more matches can’t go ahead, … Continue reading →

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£168.50 per week !

Posted on March 8, 2020 by john graham

That is the National State Pension in the UK.    Or put another way it is about £8,000 a year.   Obviously that must be successive Government’s view of how much you need to live on.      Surely everyone wants … Continue reading →

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Standard Life insurance ????

Posted on February 23, 2020 by john graham

Once upon a time, in the days of real people, before the advent of the internet I took out a life insurance.   It was fourty six years ago give or take a year or two.   I hardly remember … Continue reading →

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£Trillion – Give it all back

Posted on February 16, 2020 by john graham

All of my earlier ideas for how older people could use the accumulated wealth in all their assets, have been directed at raising the profile of older people in society.    At the moment they are too often forgotten or … Continue reading →

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£Trillion Dogs

Posted on February 9, 2020 by john graham

I’ve already come up with several ideas of how the £Trillion locked up in older peoples’ assets could be better used to more fully appreciate and integrate older people into society. So here’s a big idea from Coco🐶 What about … Continue reading →

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£Trillion Zimmers

Posted on February 5, 2020 by john graham

This post follows on from my initial idea of what older people could do collectively with their £4.7 trillions of savings currently locked in their houses.  I’ve put forward several ideas already but this one reflects the stereo typical view … Continue reading →

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Film Watching Exercise

Posted on February 2, 2020 by john graham

Research certainly gets into some unusual areas these days and reaches some interesting conclusions ! Scientists at University College London did some research recently into how films can increase you heart rate.     That must have been a very … Continue reading →

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