-
Recent Posts
Topics
- ABOUT GRUMBLESMILES (8)
- ELDERLY MARKET (49)
- Economy (4)
- Grey Products (22)
- ELDERLY UK POLICY (141)
- Assisted Suicide (16)
- Care Funding (15)
- Pensions (22)
- GRUMBLES (47)
- GRUMBLESMILES TRUST (69)
- HEALTH (201)
- Dementia (51)
- N.H.S. (44)
- Nursing Homes (4)
- RETIREMENT HOUSING (86)
- Residential Care (34)
- Sheltered Housing (1)
- SMILES (402)
-
Join 137 other subscribers
Archives
TAG CLOUD
- "Age Friendly"
- "A Happiness Ladder"
- "A Health Ladder"
- "A Horizon Ladder"
- "America"
- "A Wealth Ladder"
- "Befuddled"
- "Breakfast"
- "Community Retirement Villages"
- "Dignity be damned"
- "EMFV"
- "ExtraCare Traditions"
- "Francis Report"
- "Fruitful Research"
- "GrumbleSmiles Post"
- "Japan Odyssey"
- "LLLP"
- "Mediterranean Reflections"
- "My Garden Age"
- "Neglect Shames Britain"
- "Old Geek"
- "Pension Crystal Ball"
- "Pills"
- "poorly feet"
- "Princethorpe Court Story"
- "Rambling"
- "Same Old Same Old"
- "Southern Cross"
- "Technology Gap"
- "The Slippery Slope"
- "Uplifting Experience"
- " £140 Pension Illusion"
- ageing
- Age UK
- alzheimer's
- assisted suicide
- AVAGO
- baby boomers
- Bears
- BODJ
- CAFE PROJECT
- care funding
- Care Quality Commission
- Cheylesmore Good Neighbours
- Cloud Surfing
- Clutter
- Daily Mail
- Dementia
- Demographics
- Dilnot Commission
- Equity Release
- Euthanasia
- Exercise
- GPs
- grey market
- GRUMBLES
- Koans
- Molly's Story
- Muddled Ages
- NHS
- Nonsense
- packaging
- Patients' Association
- pensions
- research
- Riski
- Small Print
- smiles
- Stairlifts
- Welsh Housing
- “Coronapop “
- “Pangolins”
- “Trillions”
- ”Welfare Benefits”
- 🏉🏉🏉
Category Archives: GRUMBLES
Breakfast Exercise 2
This morning I woke up early – 5.45 am, tired and in my natural stupor first thing in the morning. It’s a time for an autopilot routine – not a time for a challenge. Still half-asleep – grumpy is my … Continue reading
Breakfast Exercise
I am trying to lead a healthy life now I am retired. So I start most days with Tai Chi in the back garden. Half an hour of light stretching and gentle exercise improves breathing and balance as well as … Continue reading
“Mice on the move”
Since first writing about the problems mice are having these days – see “Mouse traps become bridges” dated 1 April 2010 – it seems that the issue is much more widespread that I thought. Today the Daily Mail reports that … Continue reading
Icebergs don’t have ears!
Travelling across the Atlantic to New York on the Queen Mary 2– a voyage to a new life of retirement. Following in the long lost wake of the Titanic, and shortly to pass over her last resting place. It’s been … Continue reading
American Tea Party
After throwing a shipfull of tea into the harbour at Boston, it’s perhaps not surprising that the Americans can’t make tea. Maybe in a country renowned for good service, it’s more a statement of their independence from a very British tradition. Otherwise … Continue reading
Times – they are a changing
Back in the late 60’s when the baby boomers had only just begun to boom, I can recall going to a rock concert in Hyde Park. The hugely successful rock group – Cream were playing unbelievably loud music to a … Continue reading
Silence is Golden
I am waking up in London at the Dorchester Hotel in the lap of luxury. In the middle of the City with Hyde Park on one side and Berkley Square a few streets in the other direction. According to the … Continue reading
GrumbleSmiles 