Just joined so I'm introducing myself.
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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Unfortunately, there's no subject more guaranteed than that of money to start things getting nasty! I sympathise.
I live in Australia now but used to live in Essex for about 18 years, I was born in Scotland but left at age 17 I have also spent some time in Hampshire, a very beautiful part of our country.
Aus; is a great place to retire , the beaches are magnificent but the rest of the outback is barren desert and ugly. The people are great if a little parochial and they are convinced that Australia is the greatest country on the planet , even if they have never travelled.
I also enjoy visual art , especially the old masters and what I would call conventional art, I find modern stuff to be phoney ,even monkeys can make pictures and we are led to believe it is art, I don't think so!!! Having said that, I do like Picasso and Salvadore Dali.
As for UFO's, I have an open mind, I don't think it possible that we could be the only life in the entire ,unimaginably big universe.
I also live alone but don't have any pets, one day if I can find the time I may adopt a dog, if I can find one that will clean up it's own mess!!!
I hope you are well and happy and if you are inclined to reply ,I will be very happy to hear some news from home.
Regards
Ian
I would just like to say I turn 60 on the 22nd of Oct and I just wanted to say hello to everyone and hopefully make some friends.
Regards
Kevin
I'm 60 in December yikes !
By the way to all of you who are just turning 60, believe me you are still 'spring chickens'
live in Lancs. !!!!!! You sound as though you live near Pendlebury... witches and all that.Life is
strange, but adjustable ... I am, and have been on my own for years,and have to admit ;I do like
it,,, indoors in particular. Outdoors is a different matter. If you can find my profile,,, it took me long
enough to do it , All my friends, sounds like hundreds ,,,,,,, are scattered all over the place, caused
by my job ,,,that was .... So none of them will no longer write proper letters any more ,so I have to
do this, with all the enthusiasm of eating a cold meal. . I do drive, constantly,,, ride, don't cycle
any more .I left my bike in York ,long ago.
However ,i am a qualified Talker,,, and so let's start !!
There may be one problem,, my postings don't always go where they are supposed to, so I won't
hold my breathe ,in case this one goes a ta-ta?????
so I was over quite a lot . I have been on my own !!!! for a long time... reason being ..I am really
good at picking bad men ...or really bad at picking good men, .So i stopped the hassle and take
myself off. where when and for just the hell of it... I am quite good at making conversation with
"perfect " strangers ,and I find that I am as alone as I want to be. So. here I am ,but I have just noticed your input was a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOng time ago
I am very similar to yourself in so far as I am a magnet to bad men, and have more or less given up on every having a relationship with a good man. Also having been single for several years I also find that I actually like it...it's just a shame that I didn't realise years ago lol
on your own,, you just have to talk to anything that moves . don't disappear !!!!!
senior moment. All departments of my brain appear to act individually.
Thanks for the welcome Lochinvar.
John
https://johnretired.blogspot.co.uk/
and got lost in the rules and directives ,and left in a huff, back again ,and found you, and some
obviously ,right buttons,,,,, that .however ,,remains to be seen .. Will just do this little one to see
if I am able. Rain here U.K
Personally I am blessed with a number of longstanding friends but would always be up for someone feeling lonely if we could meet locally using my trusty bus pass.
Mick
much so .i jacked it in ,have just come back after 4 months, so, here we go !!!!
i just get swept along by pressing wrong tabs. I digress, reading through the "newbies," I suppose
we all have to start somewhere ,before we qualify.My age is of no consequence ,and something I
regard as just a number. I love driving, anywhere and every where, Derbyshire is one of my favourite
drives, as I live on the Derbyshire border, and the deer at Chatsworth estate are a wonderful site.
I do have a sports car, which I love to bits .I love windswept beaches ,and silent forests, to see the
squirrels, I am an avid reader ,usually done in bed. I love to talk to people ,probably because I do
everything on my own .Would like to change that now, SO, if there are any bright sparks amongst
you, who are like minded, and will set off ,for no other reason than a whim,, Talk to me
for my silence, but I did tell you that I was virginal with computers, and had great difficulty in
finding the right bits to respond, NOW,,, after returning to the site, to ""have another go "" I have made progress. I have no problem doing, or being,or going anywhere on my own,,but I do like to talk to people, even in supermarket queues, and waiting rooms are my favourite places to get
the chat going. Really would like a few friends now, to do bits with. ,,who live near---ish, and talk to others who live far --ish the handle came from a professor in a pub,,many years ago, who
said that I looked like Ariadne, of course I felt flattered, I mean,, a Goddess,,, that was until I saw a picture of her ,,,,a nose like a ski slope, I don't think so !!!!!
Just in case this does not get to where you all are ,,I will stop, and hope,,, most sincerely you will come back
Hope to make friends
Has I go along
I'm a east London fella
Just finding my feet
Get to know people
As we go along
Feel sympathy for all who have lost wife/ husband.
Ive been on my own a long time now but sometimes feel in need of company and a chat .
Im hoping joining here will give me some chat and friends to share things with.
I have children and grandchildren that all lead busy lives but see them as much as poss.
Tv and i pad are my good friends haha also my garden.
I live in N Ireland and retired when my husband became ill.
Have a few close friends but not really to socialise with.
Happy to have an 'e' penpal as I love writing and chatting.
I find weekends hardest and also not having that one person yu can trust in the whole world.
Very best wishes
I'm Helena, I'm new and from North Cambridgeshire. I joined in the hope of finding friends in my area. Chatting online is a wonderful lifeline, but for me, it doesn't reduce that sense of loneliness and isolation in the way that face to face interactions do.
What do others feel?