If you ever want company for 2, give me a shout. The friend I used to go to occasional classes with isn’t doing them any more and I’m finding it very hard to keep motivated entirely by myself (to the extent that I went from 2 or 3 classes a week when we first joined the leisure centre and I felt I had to justify membership to errrrm well, I think my last class was over a month ago…) – I’d be up for almost anything on the leisure centre timetable (and can also do nearby linked leisure centres)

When we were in Canada my dad hurt his knee shortly before he was leaving (he & L left first, then us, and my mum stayed a bit longer), and so my mum and my aunt walked up to the drugstore on New Year’s Day and bought him a couple of walking sticks to help him get home. They then had great fun walking home, leaning heavily on the sticks, limping, waving them at dogs, etc and were in fits of giggles when they arrived back! Much easier to get away with that sort of stuff at their age

I really don’t want to go batty – for my kids sake!

I soooo need to lose weight, but can’t seem to muster the motivation – other than every time I look in the mirror turning away rapidly

As for pensions… don’t mention it! The NHS gave me mine back because I didn’t work for long enough to hold it. P has never put into one as he’s never earned enough to keep us afloat and pay out for it. So we don’t have one – full stop! I guess we’ll just freeze/starve in our old age!