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• Be optimistic live longer!
  on Aug 12, 2009 in women lifestyle health
  Just read an article on BBC about a report that has found that women who are optimistic live longer. The study found that optimistic women had a lower risk of heart disease and death and that pessimists had higher levels of blood pressure and choles...
• Friends Reunited
  on Aug 6, 2009 in life school friends
  Just heard the news that ITV has sold Friends Reunited to the company who owns findmypast.com, so the Genes Reunited part will fit in alongside that quite well. Friends Reunited was one of the first social networking sites, but seems to have lost gro...
• Holidays
  on Jul 30, 2009
  Just managed to post the map of cities I've visited and seeing it up there, set me to thinking about the places I have been to and just how lucky I have been. Years ago, we couldn't afford to go anywhere abroad and spent our holidays in the UK, like...
• Makes you think...
  on Jul 28, 2009
  I was very sad to hear of the death on Saturday of Harry Patch, Britain's last surviving WWI veteran, he was 111. I saw the interview with Simon Weston and found it very moving. He had seen so much in his lifetime and still thought war "a waste of t...
• Start the week....
  on Jul 27, 2009
  Back to work today. The weekend seemed to fly by, partly because the decorators arrived at 8.15am on Saturday morning in an attempt to beat the weather and get some paint on walls before the heavens opened again, they have been trying to get the outs...
• Yesterday was a sad day...
  on Jul 24, 2009
  We went to the funeral yesterday of a very dear friend. It was a sad day. It was a Humanist Funeral, I have never attended one before and at first found it strange that there were no hymns to sing, no vicar or priest to offer prayers. But rather a...
• Continuing the diet saga...
  on Jul 21, 2009
  Well the diet or "healthy eating plan" has been going OK, except for the birthday party on Sunday! How can you not eat birthday cake, when it looks so scrumptious and smells so good and has chocolate shavings all over the top of it, need I say more??
• Not good for the diet............
  on Jul 17, 2009
  Resistance to chocolate is futile.
• Dieting - what's that about?
  on Jul 15, 2009
  On my return from holiday that I discovered that I had gained a few pounds so I decided that I had better get a grip and do something about taking the weight off.Now, in my younger days this would not have been a problem; just not eat till dinner tim...
• Interesting news.......
  on Jul 14, 2009
  Following on from my previous blog, it seems that the government in the UK have decided to bring forward their discussions on retirement. It seems there is some talk of doing away with a set age for retirement. Now, while I don't claim any responsibi...

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