I am ossifying like a stone,
turning into a calcified bone.
I need a Project,
something to do.
MY BRAIN IS FREEZING,
I AM SLOWLY SLOWING DOWN.
Something worthwhile,
not a time filler.
S-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g,
a new-skill challenge,
I AM NOT YET PETRIFIED,
BUT IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME.
More than a book to read,
less than an Everest.
I have climbed my mountains,
now I just need a hill.
Ideas on a postcard please ? ? ? ? ? ?
GrumbleSmiles was set up to provide innovative answers to tackling the problems of loneliness in later life. Many older people are less able to get out and about, which can be the first steps towards a life of isolation.
My travel around the clouds continue you can see more of my travel adventures by clicking on CLOUD SURFING in the TAG CLOUD). Today I invite you to join me on a trip to unknown destinations around the world and an opportunity to talk to new and interesting people. All at no cost and from the comfort of your own armchair.
We are going cloudsurfing to New Orleans.
Courtesy of a blogger and photographer who I found on a website called The Next Chapter.
http://www.latercomma.com/2017/04/page/2/
Click on the link above for more pictures and text.
In the weeks ahead, I will publish more blogs and photographs from my cloud surfing travels.
Today I woke up with a pangolin 😀
it just popped into my head😇
l don’t know where it came from ?
was it something that I said?
Pangolin was only only a word,
rolling around in my brain.
Tumbling out of the jumble jungle,
answering a quiz Master’s unasked question.
Trusty Google half solved the problem.
Pangolins do actually exist.
In Africa, India, China and the Phillipines,
But not in Kilsby, except for today.
None of that explains
what the pangolin
was doing
in my head.
GrumbleSmiles was set up to provide innovative answers to tackling the problems of loneliness in later life. Many older people are less able to get out and about, which can be the first steps towards a life of isolation.
My travel around the clouds continue you can see more of my travel adventures by clicking on CLOUD SURFING in the TAG CLOUD). Today I invite you to join me on a trip to unknown destinations around the world and an opportunity to talk to new and interesting people. All at no cost and from the comfort of your own armchair.
We are going cloudsurfing to Ontario.
Courtesy of a blogger and photographer The Furry Gnome whose blog is entitled “Seasons in the Valley”.
This is a winter walk in a part of the world I’ve never visited. I’m much happier visiting it in my armchair rather than trecking through the woods in the Canadian winter. The Furry Gnome’s comments and photographs give you a great illustration of what it must be like.
Click on the link below for more photos.
https://seasonsinthevalley.blogspot.com/2018/02/
In the weeks ahead, I will publish more blogs and photographs from my cloud surfing travels.
Back in March of this year, I wrote a blog called “Smart Dementia Tracker?” You can find it by clicking on Dementia in the Tag Cloud. Since then, the idea has developed rather alarmingly.
There has been a potentially remarkable breakthrough in the treatment of memory loss. Research conducted at Boston University compared the short term memory performance of younger people with that of people over 60. Needless to say, the young people significantly out performed the older generation. No surprise there then.
But when they zapped the older people with weak electric shocks to their brains their memory performance improved to the level of people half their age. Wow! Although this is not exactly a surprise, because I think that the Victorians used this approach in mental hospitals over a 100 years ago. I’m not entirely sure it was all that successful then.
Still, you never know! This could hold out the prospect of teams of older people competing on University Challenge and beating up a group of upstart know-it-all young graduates. They just need to be sitting on electric chairs!
Who knows where this might lead ? Electric starting blocks at the next Olympic Games could see a 90 year old outrunning Usain Bolt to the finishing line 😀
Maybe, with a finger in the electric plug socket first thing in the morning, I could remember where I left my glasses, or my car keys, or my hankie, or what was it I was looking for ?
GrumbleSmiles was set up to provide innovative answers to tackling the problems of loneliness in later life. Many older people are less able to get out and about, which can be the first steps towards a life of isolation.
My travel around the clouds continue you can see more of my travel adventures by clicking on CLOUD SURFING in the TAG CLOUD). Today I invite you to join me on a trip to unknown destinations around the world and an opportunity to talk to new and interesting people. All at no cost and from the comfort of your own armchair.
We are going cloudsurfing to Washington State.
Courtesy of a blogger and photographer DJan who we visited before in May on this year. This time we’re trecking through the spectacular scenery of the Pine and Cedar Lake Trail.
For some more great photographs and Jan’s excellent commentary on the walk, click on the link below and scroll down to 20 September to the blog entitled “Another Local Hike”.
https://djanstewart.blogspot.com/2018/09/
In the weeks ahead, I will publish more blogs and photographs from my cloud surfing travels.
It was a rainy day today.
A go away day.
A stay indoors day.
An excuse for doing nothing day.
But it’s not a hurricane day.
No floods to hold back day.
Not even a thunder and lightening day.
Just a drizzly miserable day.
A down pour of idleness day.
Rainy days disrupt your plans,
Unless you are intrepid.
But if the rain goes on for too long,
You just become decrepit.
Maybe I should build an ark ?
I should have prepared for the flood.
Still the garden gains whenever it rains
But it’s a shame about all the mud.
The flowers are happy,
the rain is their hearts desire.
For me it’s just a good excuse,
to stay in by the fire 😀
“GOD GAVE TO NOAH THE RAINBOW SIGN.
ENOUGH OF THE RAIN, THE FIRE NEXT TIME”
James Baldwin
GrumbleSmiles was set up to provide innovative answers to tackling the problems of loneliness in later life. Many older people are less able to get out and about, which can be the first steps towards a life of isolation.
My travel around the clouds continue you can see more of my travel adventures by clicking on CLOUD SURFING in the TAG CLOUD). Today I invite you to join me on a trip to unknown destinations around the world and an opportunity to talk to new and interesting people. All at no cost and from the comfort of your own armchair.
We are going cloudsurfing to a continent I am visiting for the first time in this blog.
Courtesy of a blogger and photographer Sonia Mascaro from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her photographs, which were taken in 2008, are of Brasilia.
Brasilia was the new capital built in the centre of Brazil in the 1960’s. The majority of the buildings were designed by Oscar Niemeyer and were spectacular in their appearance. This was shortly before the time that I went to university to study architecture and the buildings made a lasting impression on me.
For more photographs click on the link below.
https://leavesgrass.blogspot.com/search/label/Bras%C3%ADlia
In the weeks ahead, I will publish more blogs and photographs from my cloud surfing travels.
Now that Prime Minister Maybe Maybenot has resigned, there are a host of candidates putting themselves forward to succeed her. All of them are competing to out bid each other by seeing who can come up with the most vote catching freebies. However their suggestions are predictably unimaginative 😩
The Last Laugh Looney Party has decided to come up with some ideas that are likely to capture the elderly vote :-
As political parties often say—— “these proposals are all fully costed”.
GrumbleSmiles was set up to provide innovative answers to tackling the problems of loneliness in later life. Many older people are less able to get out and about, which can be the first steps towards a life of isolation.
My travels around the clouds continue (you can see more of my travel adventures by clicking on CLOUD SURFING in the TAG CLOUD). Today I invite you to join me on a trip to unknown destinations around the world and an opportunity to talk to new and interesting people. All at no cost and from the comfort of your own armchair.
We are going cloudsurfing to Mongolia.
Courtesy of blogger and photographer Cap Chastain. Cap is an intrepid traveller and I have published several of his travel journeys before. When you consider he is now 82 and still travelling, this is remarkable in itself, but his posts make great reading.
Mongolia is not a place I’ve ever been to, nor am I ever likely to go. I always think of it as a country in the middle of nowhere made up of nothing but a desert landscape. Not unlike the picture below.
Cap Chastain went there in 2015 and the link below will show you some of the photographs he took on that trip. They more or less confirm my view of what it’s like. Nonetheless Cap found much, much more. So you should click on the link below.
http://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/search/label/Sukhbaatar
This photograph is of Cap himself when visiting Mongolia and he looks remarkably like the images of Genghis Khan. I can imagine he has now been adopted by the nation as a reincarnation of its founder 🙂
Once again my thanks to Cap for sharing his great photographs of his travels with us.
In the weeks ahead, I will publish more blogs and photographs from my cloud surfing travels.
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