Feeling my years

Like the idea re long life bulbs, I'll get some and try to do that. Wouldn't it be good if they only used screw in bulbs though - I hate bayonet fixings and fear breakng the whole cheap brittle plastic thingy plus it is a 2- handed job. Re jars, I always release the pressure by using the blunt end of a bottle opener /can piercer under the lid in 2 or 3 places. Once the jar is no longer sirtight, it is much easier to open. Will take on board the advice re chairs though and be sensible

I'm doing the long life lightbulb change over though stupidly I had these lights which are flush in the ceiling in the bathroom and at the moment we are down to two lights waiting for the electrician to change them as DH just refuses and always has and the bathroom is too small for my stepladder method which is three lightweight sets of steps in three heights ,me on the tallest with one on either side. Makes me feel safe. That was a very long sentence with very little punctuation!

I don't feel my years until I come to open a bottle or jar! They're not just childproof they're 'older person' proof - it's only the 'tweenies' who can open the darn things. Thank goodness for Lakeland!!

I also don't feel my years until I have to get down on the floor to play or change a little one! Fine getting down but a devil of a job to get back up.

Aka I think realising it is happening is halfway to doing something about it. I do the shoulders back, stand tall thing. Tend not to worry about the grumpy face though.

A good idea if you need to change a light bulb is to put the new one in a plastic bag along with a dishcloth (to clean the shade) and put it over your arm, its there for when you bring the old one down. I have an extra long feather duster for out of reach jobs, a rubber glove for opening jars and a long handled stick with the grabber for reaching. Oh isn't old age wonderful!!

I use a step stool, wide top to stand on and easy to carry around . It lives in the broom cupboard. Only downside is that there is no rail for balance so I only use it when others are by me or it is close to a wall or cupboard I can just touch with my finger tips for balance.

Well, I'm very tired tonight ! Have been to Edinburgh - where it was teeming down all day - with eldest and youngest DGDs. (23 and 13) Eldest had a massive hangover and no raincoat, having been at a party last night...youngest started off a bit sullen but was able to flit around Primark cheerily enough . We got soaked, but ate a lovely large lunch and this helped with the 23-year-old's hangover. She and I fell asleep on the bus coming home.
I'm putting it down to my age......or as Les Dawson used to say, 'I'm just a knock-kneed, knackered old nose-bag....'

Primark? Please no.

Yup - PRIMARK!!

My godmother who is in her nineties hurt her arm when she fell off the chair she had balanced on a table to get something off a shelf !!! She has promised not to do it again

When my MiL was still living in central London my daughter had to drive all the way in from Bracknell one evening to change a lightbulb for her. It wouldn't have been so bad if MiL hadn't forgotten the whole thing within a few weeks and told us that her neighbours did everything for her.

Daren't stand on chairs - can get up - but can't get down again!

Can't carry my vacuum cleaner up or down stairs so had to buy a second one! Can't drag a cylinder cleaner either. Not too good at opening childproof lids either, need to get a child to do it

I remember my mum telling me she had changed the 'nets' and had stood on a chair to do this - she was 70+ then, and I read the riot act to her, telling her to let me do those things for her - I am now older than she was then, and find myself doing the same thing - it is really a question of how we approach things, forgetting that the body is older than the mind seems to think it is, then being reminded when we find we can't do what we intended to do when we got the chair/step ladder out, and if we do do it, we are exhausted afterward. Writing that, I think I should now be more sensible, and think about the consequences should I have an accident, and need to be looked after. (that all sounds a bit convoluted, but hope understandable!).

I am feeling very much older than my age today.

My shoulders upper arms and thumbs have been achy for a couple of weeks but today they are hurting like H***. I don't know what I have been doing apart from knitting and a bit of gardening but I am used to those activities.

I tried washing down the woodwork today but arms hurt. Even pushing the vacuum cleaner was painful. I am P***ED off. I don't know if its just muscle tension or not.
I have already popped the paracetamol. Not a happy bunny!