After about an hour or so, he decided to go for a patrol around the area, so I could move again .

Jinx insisting on sleeping on my lap. Of course, that does mean that I'm stuck here for a while .

The first power cut has just hit the local area. Not me, I'm glad to say but further down the main road towards Waterfoot village. In the twenty years that I've lived here, the power has gone out several times, usually flash flooding taking out the local substation. The power is out for anything up to a day but on one memorable occasion a few years ago, workmen repairing electricity cables and substation in Rawtenstall dug into a gas main which burned out the substation. Most of the valley was without gas and electricity for a fortnight in the depths of winter. Since then, I invested in several windup lamps and camping stove run by tins of Calor gas. Let's hope they're not needed 🤞.

11c (feels like 8c and will fall to 5c overnight). Partially cloudy, with a light 16kph N wind.

And if they were women, they might stand a chance .

Hello Lauren

Hello and welcome

11c (feels like 8c. Rising to 12c and falling to 5c overnight). Cloudy, with a 30% chance of rain and a moderate 24kph NW wind.

After is never the same as Before.

As do I but I also take a core group of things like Astragalus root, Quercitin, Transresveratrol and Ginko Biloba. The Ginko Biloba has been especially good at keeping my wits going .

Zero.

8c (feels like 6c. Rising to 9c and falling to 6c overnight). Cloudy, with a 50% chance of rain after 3:00 PM and a light 16kph W wind.

There is a continuing trend in developed countries for life span to increase, so we might all have to get used to the changes that this will bring. I suppose the good thing is that our children's life span will also continue to keep pace, so the usual balance of us remembering our grandparents and living to see our grandchildren will be maintained. If it's just a one-off thing that someone lives to be particularly old, then it's certainly possible that they might outlive their children but before the development of antibiotics and with poor living conditions, poverty, rampant disease that's something that most parents had to come to terms with anyway.
It is much better now than in the past but suffering is still part and parcel of the human condition.

9c (feels like 7c. Rising to 12c and falling to 7c overnight). Cloudy, with a 60% chance of rain overnight and a light 11kph N wind.

Welcome and good luck spicah-05

10c (feels like 7c. Rising to 12c and falling to 9c overnight). Cloudy, with an 100% chance of rain overnight and a moderate 24kph W wind.

Welcome and good luck, Mary

That does sound good .

10c (feels like 8c. Rising to 12c and falling to 8c overnight). Raining, with a light 14kph SW wind.

I think that you need to do some work for yourself.