The Luncheon Club

posted on 4 January 2012

Mariann muses:

I have brief encounters with healthy living; usually at this time of year. It's a resolution thing.
I toddle around the house since retirement as the young practice nurse put it as she told me my weight and blood pressure were within normal limits. How patronising is that? I do more, I walk to the shops at least twice a week when I need milk, wine and food (at least 200 yards both ways) and even tried salsa dancing. It turned out not to be a dance but an exercise class and I cannot do exercise - it bores me. Dancing does not and I had the idea that I would be executing sinuous moves in dramatic style. But no, I ended up huffing and puffing and did not even get as far as a sweat. I do decline to sweat. But I did last five sessions.
I have tried various minerals and vitamins according to the latest research advice- in fact I have pots of them with half a dozen left in each one. I blame the supermarket for this. Two for the price of one makes me scrabble around looking for the 'extra' one to my daily dosage of cod liver oil such as zinc, vitamin E, the B ones. A veritable plethora of abandoned intentions. Is this the road to hell?
I eat my five-a-day as recommended - in fact, if wine counts as a fruit portion then I'm well ahead in the healthy drinking stakes.
I source the internet to upgrade my knowledge, play scrabble online to keep the brain cell intact and write quizzes. In fact I think I am doing rather well in my dotage. But I am tired of people telling me to do more. Why should I climb mountains or even jump off them with a parachute as one of my sons suggested?
"Just think, Ma, you could tell your friends about it when you get home."
But I don't need to boast or prove anything to anyone. Accept me as I am, happily trundling along in my own way. Okay, I may well exercise a little more and have a cocktail of vitamins one of these days as I need the space in my cupboard. I may even cut down on the fags -again.
These encounters with healthy living may be brief but to me they are worthwhile - and next week I start belly dancing classes.

Comments ( 2 ) - Add Your Comment

Ha Ha good one I must say I agree with the cocktail BUT minus the vitamins.

Comment by johanna on 5 January 2012 16:29

I am highly impressed by your multitudinous efforts to live a long and healthy life. Indeed, I too follow very similar steps in the same endeavour, with the exception of dancing and scrabble; the former because all the other dancers on the floor collapse laughing, and my wife thrashes me at Scrabble. I do the Telegraph cryptic instead. instead it adds pleasure to breakfast, and, I hope, keeps Dr Alzheimer at bay. But I do have a suggestion for you. How about a You Tube offering of the belly-dance? We could put it on the site!

Comment by John on 6 January 2012 8:18

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