I took my car to the garage the other day, and the guy asked if I was seeing anyone. It’s a garage I go to often enough, and the guy who runs it knows that my husband left a while ago. I know this man, his girlfriend goes to the same gym as me, he…
Category: Middle-aged me
Quite Giddy
I was wide awake at 4 this morning. Alarm was due to go off at 6 ready for me to get into my gym gear and head to the gym for 6.30. Yes, I was that excited. I got up and made myself a cup of tea and a bowl of cereal and took it…
Full o’ busy
Life is a bit hectic. I work 35 hours a week for a large DIY shed as a kitchen designer – but I rarely do just 35 hours, I normally have a couple of hours overtime at least, so my normal working week is usually about 37 hours. On the plus side, my working day…
A Little Bag of Sweets
Yesterday was a Difficult day. And when a colleague arrived with bags of sweeties for the sweetie stash, there was only one thing for it. I took a small bag of Haribo Tangfastics – and scoffed the lot. I needed it. About three weeks ago, I decided to cut sugar out of my diet. First…
No More Sugar
I have osteoarthritis in the top joints of my fingers. The worst affected are my little fingers, but I get a bit of pain in most of them, apart from my thumbs. My hands look like I remember my Grandma’s hands looking. The joints of my little fingers are quite swollen. I don’t have much…
Walking in the Snow
I love the snow. I have happy memories of sledging on Beverley Westwood as a child. One year we were having such a good time that when the light started to fade we walked into the town for something to eat – then went back out and sledged in the moonlight. Magical. I’ve had adventures…
Me Day – again
Two years ago, on 8th January, my husband told me he was leaving. One year ago, on 8th January, I wrote this. I decided that I would declare the 8th of January Me Day. A day to acknowledge that I’ve survived, that I’m not the woman I was. I wish I could go back and…
Black Ice
Time to get back to the gym yesterday, after a bit of a lay-off over Christmas. Into the gym kit – leggings, T-shirt, hoody, trainers, heart-rate monitor – and off out for the 8am session. The gym is just a short walk from the house. The slush from the day before had frozen overnight. It…
No Plans
I have a few days annual leave, starting today. I have no plans. I haven’t even made any plans that have had to be cancelled. Yes – Covid-19 has been with us for so long now that these few days hadn’t even been booked when it all started. Unlike my planned-and-paid-for-but-then-cancelled trip to Naples in…
It’s Chriiiiistmaaaas (Nearly)!
Twenty days to go until Christmas. It’s going to be a funny one. And I don’t mean ‘funny ha ha’. What are your plans? Are you going for the full 3-household Christmas bubble from 23rd to 27th December? Or will you retreat from the world and use the holiday period as a much-needed excuse to…
Middle-aged, Free and Single 