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What a lovely thought, Snoozie! Wishing you both health and happiness too. It's a new start! I hope it's a great year for all of us.

Merry Christmas Suzy and Snoozie!

I'm glad your eye surgery went well, Suzy. I hope you can see better now, and enjoy the grandkids! Yes, you are both right about hanging in there, and that we just need to work around all these challenges. The temptation is to just give up and eat more because I can't exercise much. I need to stop that kind of thinking!…

I'm sorry about your postal problems. That's really frustrating. I'm thinking of people who get medications, etc. through the post as well. Must be a worrying time. You did make me laugh with the earrings story, though! I have been useless this year with Christmas presents. I have bought loads for my grandson of course,…

I'm sorry it didn't work out for Thanksgiving with your grandson! But it's really nice that they wanted to spend it with you. They were probably right to keep away with such a young baby. I hope your daughter's son is better now. Quite nice to not have to cook though and just relax and enjoy it! Why put off the hip…

Happy Thanksgiving, Suzy! I hope you're having a lovely time. You mentioned that your son and family might be able to make it. I hope they did but hope you have a nice holiday either way.

Good idea about the distraction of keeping your hands busy knitting! I have been keeping a food diary, and it's work that's the big factor, and in fact I can see my weight going up when I've been at work and coming down at the weekends! So all the work I'm doing at home to control eating is getting cancelled out at work.…

Have you seen the nutrionist yet, Suzy? I'd be interested in what advice you got and how it was tailored to you and your hubby. Thank you both for understanding about my concerns about surgery! I am probably going to go for it if they say I can, but we'll see. I have not been good with my eating. Yet again, I start off…

So true, Snoozie. Yes, nothing is easy! And you do lots of hard stuff, Suzy: the hiking the grandchildren, your projects: you put a lot of effort in to have an active and fulfilling life. I think it's easy to forget what we are doing when we focus on what we're not doing! It's good that your cholesterol levels are stable…

Welcome back, Suzy! Well done on the hiking! That sort of hiking has been beyond me for a long time now, and I'm always so impressed that you can do it! Congratulations on meeting your grandson, too! I'm wondering if it's because it's your son (not your daughter) that you weren't invited earlier. I've talked about this…

So catching up. Hope you have a good trip, Suzy. Thanks for the photos of your friends, Snoozie! You are all so brave! I would love to have come out with you! Both of you are making really good points about pushing ourselves and the effect on our future health and fitness. I need to get on track (do I say that every time I…

I have just checked in this morning and my notifications haven't been showing so I missed your posts! Having to rush out to work so I'll catch up later: will read tonight but might be a couple of days before I reply as I am so busy at work. But congratulations on your grandson, Suzie! And I'm so sorry about visiting. No…

Yes, I was quite worried when I got covid as I had been so ill last year with it! But this time it wasn't nearly as bad. Although I still felt quite unwell with it and just slept a lot of the time. Yes, the video calls are great but people I know don't seem to want to do them. I don't know how you feel, Snoozie, but it can…

Well done on the hike! Wow, have you been back since May? Time is just flying at the moment. Well done on the eating too, and for finding something that's working for you. I'm really enjoying my grandson, thanks! I've had covid for the past week so haven't seen him, but the other grandparents have been visiting to support.…

Oh, Suzy, don't be down on yourself! It's really hard, for us and for everbody. I'm in the same place as you and trying not to be too disappointed in myself either because I don't think it really helps. I have just yesterday bought bigger underwear and it feels like a failure as I'd promised myself not to size up again.…

Well done on the Woman's Club projects, Suzy! It's great that you are doing things like that. I normally do voluntatry work in the summer with a very tiny local group but haven't been able to this year because of my hip. Summer has been too hot here for me! Strange weather: it's really hot today but I think we're expecting…

Snoozie, yes, leave that box! There's no hurry! It would be nice to just relax and enjoy your apartment now that it's fixed. Yes, they are really mobilising early after surgery now. I suppose it helps prevent complications. I've been told they sometimes even do hip replacements as a day case now, home the same day! Well…

It's lovely to hear from you Snoozie ... I have done the same thing where I'm sure I've posted and then it never appeared! I'm glad you finally got the work done. That has really dragged on and on, and it must be so unsettling having to move out and back in again, and still be unpacking. But well done on the garden! I…

Thank you, Suzy! I'm over there most of the time helping out at the moment! Is everything OK with you, Snoozie?

Thanks, Suzie, that's good to know! Yes, there's a waiting list, I haven't gone on it yet because there are advantages to postponing (second replacements don't work well). It was several years, but I think has reduced quite a bit now, so maybe two years or possibly even less than a year just at the moment. I still do some…

Sorry, I didn't get any new post alert! Thank you for the update, Suzy! Is everything OK with you, Snoozie? It's been a while. The roads in the North of Scotland are an adventure! I remember the miles and miles of single lane and pulling over to let people pass or overtake. So long since I've been up that way. I have been…

I don't think I realised that the garden was just temporarily yours! But maybe it will give you some more time when you pass it on the next the person. I should probably have another go at planting food in my garden. At the moment, I struggle enough just to keep the plants under control! Lovely that you are having some…

Are you still here, Suzy, or back home now? I hope the last hiking day went well. I have such admiration that you are able to do that despite the foot problems, etc. The weather has been very strange here. Torrential rain, storms, hot sun, and Northern Lights! Thank you for thinking of me at Eurovision. I was over there…

My hip is OK, thanks. I was doing some travelling again recently, and I was finding all the walking and stairs quite hard at the airport. I have a couple of future trips planned and am looking at booking hotels with the least walking which are unfortunately much more expensive! It is a bit frustrating, to be honest. At the…

Oh poor you! That does sound so exhausting. And your back. Hope you're feeling better soon. Big congratulations on your appointment! It's good news that you have had those results even when you know you haven't been able to eat as well as normally. So hopefully by the next appointment you will be back on track. I'm sure…

I'm OK thanks ... have got a cold/flu type virus that's going around at the moment so feeling a bit sorry for myself. My hip is really annoying me but it's better as I'm resting at the moment! How are you doing? Has the work on your house been completed?

That jaw thing sounds painful, Suzy! Sounds like a dentist thing to me, maybe, but I don't know! I once had problems grinding my teeth in my sleep and that was quite painful, but I think that was more muscle spasms than the jaw slipping. I hope you get it sorted. You need your sleep! It's so close to you coming over here.…

The insurance work is really dragging on! That's terrible that they are treating you like that. So frustrating when you can't get hold of people. That's so funny about your stove! The wonders of google. It's so satisfying when you find something simple that works! Good luck with your blood work. I hope the few weeks has…

Just checking in here. Hope you are all OK. How is the personal trainer going, Suzy? And the pickleball, Snoozie? It feels like it has been a long winter here. Not so much snow and ice any more, but just cold, windy, rainy, etc. It's looking a big brighter today and I'm going out doing voluntary litter picking round my…

No, I don't already have a hip replacement, it's just that I'm still relatively young, so if I got it now (and live long enough!) there's a good chance I'd need another replacement at some point and it seems there aren't very good results with them .... I suppose obviously most people having them will be quite elderly so…