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Watch this postI will be 67 next month and retired from the many different jobs in my working life. I guess that I didn’t ever find my calling. I went to university at age 59 but when it was over it was too late to launch a new career. I wanted to lecture but students don’t want to listen to old fogies, so sadly I put aside that idea and settled into life as an eccentric dog owner.
I live in a beautiful Lancashire valley surrounded by hills that demand they be walked/climbed, how could I refuse?
I would like to do a bit of cycle touring but a recent diagnosis of spondylosis and some hip pain means that I may not be doing a world tour anytime soon!
I’m keen to make some friends as I have been on my own for a very long time now, my daughters don’t bother much with me and I don’t have a partner.I didn’t expect to be so isolated at this time in my life, isn’t it strange the way family and friends seem to forget us when we get past 60?
I will pop in regularly and hope to strike up some friendships.
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Fatima.....frienship important with good people a good Idea. My close neighbours my friends and my family so far so good I am a good Mother and good with my friends Respectively. So take care of yourself life goes on bless you and you never know whats around the corner their are good people in this world. And be wary stay away from not so good people at all times bless you and Goodbye.
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I am also 62 and taking early retirement this year. Having lost my best friend to cancer and separated from my husband I am determined to make the most of each day despite lockdown.
What type of photography do you do? I would love to do more myself as I have a hidden desire to take beautiful photos and then paint what I see. Have purchased the paints but so far they are still in the box!
It sounds like you like crafts? The stain glass boxes sound interesting.
Hope you get to make some nice connections on here x
I am sorry to hear of the loss of your friend and your separation, it must be a tough time for you but you seem determined to carry on. unfortunately it has taken me a long time to start again but in a very funny way these lockdowns have helped by making me face life alone full on.
I am currently working through an online photography course and really enjoying it but due to the restrictions I am concentrating on still life but still having fun with it.
Good luck with the painting and please keep in touch x
I am new too and feeling similar to yourself but since retiring at the end of 2015 I have had a little more practice at adapting to my new sole circumstances.
I love the idea of the stained glass objets d’art, sounds fascinating.
Hope to see you on Not on The High St soon
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Are we really on the 3rd one?
Just seems seemless to me apart from the fact that I had the most fantastic 2 weeks in Cornwall in September.
I too like you just can’t wait to have family time but I’ll just have to make do with .Zoom and Skype til then.
Ok off to paint some more skirting boards, hope to speak soon.
Well I’m a newbie too so let’s hope we have some interesting conversations and make some new friends very soon.
I’m a Classic FM fan but love The Who and The Moody Blues too.
A very diverse mix
I have been quite lucky as I have managed to go for a walk and go shopping locally and hopefully soon I can get into the garden without sinking into the soggy lawn!
I volunteer for a lovely group called Evergreen who support people over 70 living alone. (I am very nearly one of them )
We can only chat on the phone currently and so I am looking forward to being able to visit my elderly friends again soon.
I live in Lincolnshire and it’s a very rural community and I have good friends here and family in the next village. My family are somewhat spreadout and I can’t wait to be able to visit them again.
It’s blinking cold here, little snow though....so we might miss it?
Hope you won’t feel too cut off now that we have both found the site and let’s look forward to getting to make new friends and finding new interesting things to do
I have also just joined.
I live in rural Australia, am 60, 2 children, 4 grandchildren. Bushfires then covid have kept us apart for too long.
I'd like to have some people to communicate with.
Thank you.
Gilliangreenfingers
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Yorkshire .I must admit I have been fortunate in still having Hubs around and family that ring once a week . The lock down has certainly been hard to cope with especially for people on their own . I hope that you find what you want in this community .
I retired, early , from work in the middle of lockdown, i'd just had enough!
Im married, for 46 years , age 65. We have 2 sons , both married and just welcomed our 2nd granddaughter this week, although we cant travel to meet her right now.
I have been passing my time by knitting, reading and a bit of genealogy which I'm finding very interesting.
I have a sister and she has the heavy end of caring for my mother at the moment as she lives near to her and we are not allowed to travel. I'm missing them both but I know its for the best
I’m new to conversing in a chat room, but I wanted to give this a try.
I live in Burbank, Los Angeles, California with my daughter who works for DisneyStudios. I moved out to Los Angeles County in 2010 from my home in St. Louis, Missouri (Midwest USA).
Apparently I live in the worst area in the USA for Covid. Our hospitals are overflowing and the virus is spreading like wildfire and deaths are filling up trucks. Needless to say, I’m in lockdown. I walk with my daughter and maltipoo puppy every morning at 4 am to avoid people. Then at night 7pm. I take my puppy out for 5 minute runs outside, 3 times a day. I can’t visit my 2 other adult children that live in Utah with my grandchildren. But we text, FaceTime and talk. My only physical human contact is with my daughter when she comes home from work. She’s one out of four people that work in a plexiglass large office area—everyone else works from home. So they have the whole 6 floor building to themselves!
When she goes to work, my whole world opens up! I am learning to code C++ so one day I can create my own software. I joined a creative writing group so I can finish my poems and my stories I write. I have 4 paying genealogy clients, so I divide my time researching for the documents of their ancestors. I have been an active genealogist since 1965, Now I have 200 5-inch binders full of documents and photographs. I have had a great passion to help others. Crazy as it sounds, I feel so trained to be living in this time in my life. I’ve lived in many places because of work, I’ve lived in California, Washington state (my favorite) ,New Hampshire (my hardest state to live), Florida, Connecticut, Utah and (home) Missouri. When I was in my mid twenties I lived with my husband and son in New Hampshire. It would start snowing in October through April. It was common to have several 3foot snow falls everyday. I remember raking the snow off my roof of my home! We walked into town, trudging through 3 foot snow drifts everyday to keep warm at the town library. There was no internet, Our tv was sold to buy a month of oil to heat our home. I had a typewriter and radio. And a sewing machine and a joy of cooking cookbook. The town was 1 street with shops. So we had to order everything by mail, genealogy by mail and I kept busy....so when Covid started and eventually shrouded us into retreating to our homes ...my memories of my past ignited the returning power of survival!
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You've certainly lived a lot of places. We have moved around too , due to hubby's job, only in Scotland and England but we have been settled here in West Lothian in the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow for almost 30 years. The town is a 'Royal Burgh as we have a palace where Mary, Queen of Scots was born. Incidentally, according to the original books . Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott, of ('Beam me up Scottie') Startrek will be born here on 28 June 2222!!
I have only researched my own family tree although I have found that a couple of great uncles emigrated to Illinois c 1922. one of them appears to have been quite well known in Michigan and just a bit infamous!? Andrew Strachan McFarlane moved to Detroit in 1937 and went on to be President of The Federation of Labor apparently taking the miners out on strike. I have found photos online of him with President Hoover and James Hoffa! Unfortunately cant find any family although I know he had 2 daughters. I can find no trace of his brother who also emigrated , James Strachan McFarlane was married to Ellen Reid but has seemingly disappeared. If you ever come across any of these two in your genealogy travels I'd be forever grateful.
Things are not too clever here, as in everywhere else at the moment, we are pretty much locked down and the virus is running riot. It changes weekly but at the moment we are allowed out to shop for food and exercise keeping 2 m apart and wearing a mask and hand sanitising everywhere. We are ordering our shopping online and having delivered, I do try to go outside for a walk every day but the weather has been snowy and cold , not as much snow as you dealt with!
Keep safe
I have to say I've been very lucky all in all: I am an engineer and had already been telecommuting for some time. Actually, I may have invented telecommuting as I convinced my employers in 1989 to let me buy one of the first ever MACs and work from home 3 days a week so I could be with my 2 year old.
I've lived all over as well. Born in California, but spent my early years in South America then 10 years in Denmark.
I'm extremely lucky to be a woman working in high tech still after all these years. But I can tell you, finding women friends at the workplace is a no go. Anyway, happy to chat. Glad to be here.
Yay to the global community, boo to the global non-immunity! 🙂
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I'm Miss Jo - from the United States - Southern part - and I just read your post. Don't be discouraged! How do you KNOW students don't want to listen to you? We get wiser with age - they will be grateful for your words of wisdom!
Your place of abode sounds wonderful. I live in a small town high on a mountaintop - where the good Lord has put me (I am certain) for a time of healing. It is a beautiful place!
Prayers that you will find your place in life - sometimes it comes to us later than we want, but it is all good!
Blessings!
Miss Jo
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Was just starting to enjoy trips out, especially to the Welsh coast, when COVID struck.
I Googled ‘penfriends’ this morning and here I am. Would love some conversation about what may be happening to others during the pandemic.
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i have a dog, always had dogs after my terrier died, 3 others, and most recent is a small terrier, i rescued 8 years ago.
i am trying to locate a chat room to hook up my new webcam for some survey researchers interviews, and i just don't know where to go to get it up and running.
we could chat some, nice reading your little story,
sophia
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I like your name - is there a story behind that?
It sounds great that you went to University recently. I am still studying myself at 62. Who says we are too old to stop learning?
Geography is not my best but I assume that the Southern Lake District is not too far from Lancashire. I love to walk and cycle aswell - probably could do more if I was a bit fitter!
I hope you can reach out to new friends on here and not feel so lonely.
Lots of us in the same boat! X
I’m fun loving, youthful in my outlook and still physically fit.
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I'm a newbie. Married with two grown up children. Found this site and thought it sounded interesting.
I'm English and used to live in Kent but my Husband and I are now living in Australia and have done so for 26 yrs!
Just wondering if anybody lives in Melbourne.
Enjoying watching all the old YouTube clips!
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With COVID-19 looking for friends to chat with. Isolation has been hard and don't see it changing soon. I will get my first shot next Friday. Not that it will change much of 5 or 6 months when a majority of the US has received.
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