Energy or lack of it !

teatime try and relax before bedtime, be sure you are doing things during the day to make you tired at night, I stopped drinking tea and coffee and now sleep much better.

Try and make sure the your bedroom is at a good temperature all through the night.

Sometimes not going to bed and sleeping on the couch can work, you just fall asleep watching TV

Quite is the enemy for me, there must be some background noise otherwise I can not sleep so I sometimes have the TV on in the bedroom

Hope some of that has helped.

Well done Jenn for your burst of energy.

On the rare occasion I have a burst of energy, I 'm so thrilled but sadly I can't repeat it for months.

I think I'll have to have a little lie-down after reading all that, jenn...

Thank you gransnet!After confessing to being a slob last night I have been hard at it since getting up!Even the unused rooms have been vacced and polished.Dogs' beds are on the line,bags ready for the charity shop,floors steamed,plants watered,taps gleaming, now to groom the dogs before I head off to the stables.

That just about sums up my approach too NanKate. The kitchen and bathroom are the priorities most of the time, but the rest can be left, unless we're about to have visitors and then the two of us are a frenzy of activity. And I can't honestly say, like you, that I 'keep the place tidy' because the dining room table always has my sewing and craft stuff strewn across it. If I put it away I only have to get it all out again. And in the living room there is always the current knitting project next to me on the sofa...
As for OAPs in adverts, I was so cross a while back at a link in the sidebar on Facebook, something to do with pensions - and quite frankly if the woman illustrating it was drawing a pension then I'd like to know how. Slim, glamorous, obviously straight out of the hairdressers, not a grey hair in sight and quite clearly not a day over 45.
And at the other end of the advertising spectrum are the TV ads which use the over 65's for comedic effect as frumpy, doddering imbeciles. SO patronising I could scream.

JoyB I too am suitably cringed (if there is such a word) at those unreal photos. The pictures look a bit like 'The Stepford Wives' for oldies.

I only do housework before people visit i.e. Dusting and hoovering. The rest of the time I keep the place tidy and the kitchen shipshape. Housework makes me depressed reading my book perks me up - well that's my story and I am sticking to it.

jenn It seems much more sensible to enjoy yourself reading a book or walking the dogs - you're not lazy, you've got your priorities right.

Thanks Ana.

Welcome back anyway, jingl, you've been missed!

It's whether there is any point to doing things that makes the difference in my case. I've just come back from a short holiday and I was quite happy to be on my feet, walking around for miles, for most of the day. Thought nothing of it. However, tomorrow I've no doubt it will take all of my will power just to walk to the shops.

I agree jenn - it's an unreal life. What a good way of putting it!

living alone and without any family near-my son and family live abroad- retirement was and still is a very unreal life.
Without the structure of work I have realised that it wasn't lack of time that prevented me doing things I promised myself I would do, I just lack the motivation.
My horse's stable is cleaned more often than the house.

I have to admit that there is a lot of the slob in me and a good book or walk with the dogs is preferable to housework.

Lack of energy or just lazy?

Nankate (In response to your post at 20:50:07) The photos of 'supposed OAPs in magazines' that really make me cringe are the ones where there's a seated, smug, smirking male with a droopy, vacant-looking woman standing behind him bending over him with her arms draped around his neck... Arrrrrgh!!! I seem to see them all the time... (but perhaps I'm the one with the problem, maybe I need to get a life and stop reading magazines )

Yes she was...but made me feel even more guilty!

Did anyone watch Countryfile tonight? One of the farmers up for an award is a woman in her eighties. She still works the farm but looks every bit of her age. A true farming hero. I thought she was brilliant!

I hate those photos of supposed OAPs in magazines who have grey hair but look slim, fit, and bursting with energy.

Not so much being slobs, as recognising that we do slow down - and accepting that. We are too brainwashed by these gadabout sporty grans and grandpas in the media. I have no desire whatsoever to run a marathon.

This is so liberating, so many of us coming out of the closet about being slobs in our retirement . Thank you ladies, I feel totally vindicated .

Even better Mishap the same article rubbishes the use of BMI and the medical preoccupation with weight! (and BP)

My Dad was a heavyset man all his life but healthy and fit on the whole and he lasted in his own home, quite compos mentis until the age of 93. He would have gone on longer but he got gangrene in his leg after a leg ulcer was neglected by the visiting nurse and had a stroke on the operating table when they removed his leg. He never regained consciousness.

I have never gone along with all these target figures and avoid them wherever I can.

There is an article in the ST today about how arbitrarily the decision about what level of cholesterol is normal and what is not came about. It slightly destroys one's faith in the medics. All those statins being doled out on the basis of an arbitrary number!

I am absolutely the same, Tegan! I keep telling myself I've got to get into some sort of routine. I've tried setting the alarm (not too early) but I just turn it off and go back to sleep or doze.

I suppose it doesn't really matter, but it's the lack of purpose I feel in my life at the moment that's the problem. I miss the day-to-day contact with the people at work too, but getting motivated to join things to meet others seems beyond me at present!

Parcs, If you have too many carbohydrates in your diet you will experience slumps in energy after each peak.

Feeling up one minute and down the next is exhausting in itself.

When the S.O. took early retirement years ago the company put them on a course about how to deal with retirement. Now, he is a 'get up at 7 o'clock every day' sort of person and he has continued to do so. Whereas I was someone that had to get up at 7 each day but was really a nightowl that wanted to stay up late and get up late; the past 18 months has just seen me live more of a day for night sort of existence. I'm also too pig headed to live by his timetable when he's here [feels like a sort of 'you've won' scenario]. I'm going to try to have some sort of routine next week, but it doesn't help that I slept really late today as I actually needed to catch up with some sleep. I don't miss work, but I do mis the routine and the lack of daily contact with 'real people' means that I am drawn even more to the computer.

This thread has at least made me feel better about myself - at least I now know I'm not the only one!

I'm turning into a complete slob [retired 18 months ago]. I spend far too much time on the computer and almost need to put some sort of lock on it to limit myself . However, I'm having some work done on the house tomorrow and I'm hoping it will spur me on to doing more. I've said before that I find my house is a constant drain on me; not so much for the fact that I'm doing things on it but that I spend a lot of time procrastinating. Like now ....