What can and can’t you do?

I forgot to say: l CAN do maths.

i can't -
crochet
walk very far
clamber into a bath
get up off the floor
do my garden

i can -
drive
sew and knit
cook
do housework although i hate it
use my computer and smartphone confidently
record programmes i like on my sky q box so i don't need to watch live tv

*sing

I can't:
Run
Ride a bicycle any more
Draw or paint
Cut out with scissors very well
Sew or knit well

I can:

Play the piano, violin and viola and organ
Organise events and people
Write
Speak in public
Song

I can’t
Swim - scared of water
Ride a bike
Crochet- but I can knit
Speak any language except English
Tolerate patronising people
Play chess

I can
Write poetry
Be a good friend
Make good pastry
Drive
Look after my (very pampered) cats
Touch my toes
Sing

I can:
Do a headstand
Touch my toes
Put my foot to my mouth
Write stories and poems
Cook
Bake
Clean
Look after people
Admin/computer
Hide physical pain

I can’t:
Speak publicly
Be assertive
Like my body

And I absolutely can't
Speak in a crowd of more than two people
Sing in tune
Do much apart from crochet which a lot of gransnetters can't seem to do
Eat meat

Can't -

Swim
Ride a bike
Use a sewing machine - but I want to learn
Knit

Can -

Cook - although I don't like hosting - too much pressure
Make pompoms
Remember useless information
Support family and friends

I can't :
Drive
Understand technology
Cook anything complicated
Whistle
Wink
Roll my rrrs

I can :
Crochet
Swim
Understand and speak basic French

I can’t run a marathon
I can’t abide hypocrites
I can’t eat sweetcorn
I can’t wear high heel shoes

I can speak French
I can cook pretty well
I can be trusted with secrets
I can love m’y family with all my heart and soul
Thank you

I can't

Run (well not without wetting myself anyway....)
Sew
Draw
Do woodwork
Do plumbing

I can

Sing
Cook
Create poetry
Analyse well
Spell
Milk a goat (!)

What a wonderful thread I enjoyed so much thank you all.

I can’t make scones;
fly a plane;
read music or play an instrument;
catch/hit a ball;
run a marathon….
Etc.
Etc.

(But I’m ok with lots of other things)

I can do many things, but I often can't be arsed.

Can’t-
Sing
Ride a bike
Abide a show-off
Parallel park with confidence.

Can-
Touch my toes
Drive
Set up a computer from scratch
Listen to my husband tell the same jokes again and again without rolling my eyes.

I can't:
Motivate myself to do housework
Swim without sinking like a brick
Read without falling asleep these days
Smile without looking like I've had a stroke
Wake up in the mornings
Keep still when music plays

I can:
Spend an excessive amount of time surfing t'internet
Make a mess doing a number of different crafts
Stay up until the early hours
Talk for England

I cant do lots of things I used to do but I can still hug my Grandkids & my cat. Feed my birds in the garden & leave an egg every night for our resident fox! I can also thank whoever is looking out for us that I am still here every morning! And that I can still make a cheese sanie😂

What a lovely thread to celebrate what we can (and can’t do)!

Can:
Cook well (but messily)
Listen
Touch my toes - and the floor!
Grow a lovely garden
Care
Do Cryptic Crosswords and Quordle
Appreciate fine wine
Volunteer
Dance like nobody’s watching
Laugh
Drive
Swim
Walk

Can’t:
Lose that extra weight
Do maths (is it our age?)
Sit in the sun
Bake (no interest)
Heights
Cycle - although I did as a child.

Sorry wrong thread

Just been for my annual health check with an HCA at the surgery. Thin tall youngish wo.an with tattoos and a nose piercing. So patronising . Made me feel old and fat. And unhappy. What is happening? Is it me?

I can
Write 35,000 word children's books (2 agents interested, then passed😔)
Tell children's stories - ages preschool to aged 12
Give passionate talks on caring for the elderly
Run a small monthly Tea and Chat group for isolated elderly (with some wonderful friends)
Knit
Cook
Garden
Entertain grandchildren
Call older people from church and make them know they're not forgotten
Read my bible with delight and learn from it
Dye my eyebrows as well as any salon

I can't
Do maths or finance (but my husband is a whiz at this)
Remember pages of script (am dram) since Long Covid messed with my head
Run around our field with our grandchildren in our wheelbarrow (see above)
Sew
Ski
Draw /paint
Cut my fringe properly

I can't :

Do maths, but somehow have adapted over the years to maintain finances and use various tools in careers

Allow people's opinions of me to stop me from participating in conversation, or to force me to feel self-hatred

Watch anything or read anything regarding cruelty to animals

Garden-and this is a goal I have to reach

Walk very well, bum knee-needs replaced

Allow someone I see who is suffering to go ignored, unless that is their personal wish, of course

Read small print without my glasses (sigh!!)

Craft-sewing, knitting, crocheting (I admire those who can!)

Finish grieving the loss of my father in December. I had to say goodbye on Face Time, but at least we could talk. He was in America. I've some processing and tears to go, still.

Do very well at making real personal friends here in England. It's hard for a 1-to-1, and I struggle to feel confident.

Speak with a beautiful British accent of any local. My husband says I sound like "Dick Van Dyke in Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" (LOL!)-shame be upon me! I really wish I could.

Say the word Brewery properly. Weird-I know.

But I can:

Support a person through the end of life process, emotionally and spiritually (whatever is their preference). And sit with them through the dying process, to honour their wishes.

Comfort and support families who are struggling with anticipatory grief, as well as the bereaved

Touch my toes

Arrange and Officiate a funeral

Know very quickly when I will not be accepted into a new group. I'm a dual citizen of the US and UK and there are times where I must accept this fact. I've learned to find an inner understanding

Speak to a very large audience

Use "tech" quite well, as my main career was an end-to-end process manager.

Read the room

Be a good wife, mum, grand mum, step mum, fur baby mum

"Do beauty". I was a cosmetologist in my younger years and continue with family. I am also licensed to do skincare and facial massage and make-up.

Be called upon to calm an escalated situation

Be considered with important, confidential information

Listen to others when they need an ear, without judging or preaching.

Write

Sing

Change my opinions and grow personally, by way of being educated and educating myself using unbiased and secure sources

Research statistics and come up with new processes to save time and errors

I can do:
Advanced maths
Crochet
3-dimensional visualisation
Dreadful puns

I can't do:
Heights
Baths (well not very easily, anyway)
Cycling
Fancy icing

I can't :
Swim
Do maths except the basics
Make small talk
Crochet
Bake a sponge cake that turns out well every time

I can:
Knit
Cook Indian food (I have been married to an Indian man for 48 years)
Write fiction
Read maps (now an unnecessary ability)

I can do everything and top of my game too!!