Category Archives: Getting old

Special Photo Challenge: Inspiration

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Barbara

What inspired me to start a blog? What inspires me to blog? Two very different questions! I had thought about bogging before. My very famous auntie Marie is an accomplished blogger on another well-known blog platform which we won’t mention … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Birthdays, Blogging, Brighton, Getting old, Life, Pets, Photography, Self Employment, Surrey Hills, Travel, Wilson | Tagged #memyblog, anchor tags, Blogging, Inspiration, Photography, Postaday, Special Photo Challenge, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wilson | 12 Comments

Oh Help!

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Barbara

I’m 1 stone above my ideal weight and 2 stone off the weight I want to be! For a former anorexic, this is not good news!! The last time I was this heavy I was about 7 months pregnant! No … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting old, Keeping Fit | Tagged Achilles Tendon Injury, Anorexia, Baklava, Calories, Fitness Goals, Getting Fit, Middle Age Spread, Nutrition, Overweight, Plantar Fascia | 17 Comments

My baby is all grown up!!

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Barbara

18 years ago today at ten minutes past midday, my first baby, a girl, arrived, took a breath and looked at me and her dad with an expression that said “oh… were you waiting for me? Maybe because she was … Continue reading →

Posted in Birthdays, Getting old, Life, Photography, Teenagers | Tagged 18 today, daughter, Happy Birthday, Parenting, Teenagers | 16 Comments

Happy 40th Birthday Gwen

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Barbara

Today is my baby sister’s 40th birthday. She died on the 3rd of February 1973 of a cot death. We only have four photographs of her. Most people didn’t have cameras then, and colour photographs were still very new. I … Continue reading →

Posted in 40, Birthdays, Death, Families, Pain, Sisters | Tagged Cot Death, FSID, Guardian Angel, Gwen Molony, ISIDA, Sisters | 10 Comments

Time flies!

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Barbara

At the end of this month my eldest daughter Rebekah will be 18. I’m finding that hard to take in! My baby will be an adult in less than 30 days!! It hardly seems any time at all since she … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, Getting old, Life, Teenagers | Tagged Children, Gardening, Photography | 8 Comments

Fit Mum? I’m becoming one

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Barbara

Finally after 15 years I have decided I need to do something about my bum, tum & thighs! Years of working or studying have finally taken their toll and I am seriously unfit! I tried a few years back to … Continue reading →

Posted in 40, Athletics, Fibromyalgia, Getting old, Keeping Fit | Tagged Beginnings, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Getting Fit, Iyengar Yoga, Run England, Run4Mum, Sally Gunnell | 5 Comments

There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Barbara

Leonard live at the National Stadium, Dublin 1988 I WAS THERE! I was only 19, and had spent the previous 4 years being lulled to sleep and indulging in depression with Leonard’s first 3 albums, very typical of teenagers … Continue reading →

Posted in folk rock, Getting old, Life, Music, Pain, Photography, Poetry, spoken word | Tagged Dear Heather, I'm Your Man, Leonard Cohen, National Stadium Dublin 1988, Old Ideas, Old Ideas Tour, Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8, Songs From A Room, Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs of Love and Hate, Ten New Songs, The Future, Various Positions, World Tour 2008 - 2010 | 9 Comments

The Fun Theory

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Barbara

I love this video! For me this symbolises what learning and working should be all about. When we are having fun we forget we are working, and suddenly what seemed a chore, becomes easier to complete and repeat without even … Continue reading →