Neverthesame's Stupid Lessons Learned The Hard Way.

[Neverthesame]

Calligraphy is a lovely art form. I was taught that in primary school, as part of religious studies. I imagine what you learned was far more in depth, than what I was taught.

Not sure exactly what it had to do with the almighty, but it was far more pleasant to learn about than the ancient Roman obsession with nailing people to bits of wood.

Learning a bit of Latin was interesting as well. Like the little placard the Romans put on the cross as a rude joke.

Iesus Nazareum, Rex Iudædorum
(I had to look that one up again, couldn't remember off the top of my head.)

Sorry to hear about your father. Those old houses were hard to live in when healthy, with a respiratory illness not at all.

When I tell people here about houses like that, they look at me like I came from Mars. As far as I can tell, all houses here were built with forced air natural gas heating. The few that weren't were fitted with it decades ago.

You should see the look they give me when I tell them how houses like that can cost well over a million pounds.

Anyways I'm rambling again.

I was wondering though Gadgie, is there a way you could maybe get into a teaching/mentorship role?

Would such a thing even appeal to you?

 

[Gadgie]

I used to be a welding instructor, which involved class work, that never bothered me at the time. We used to share the class work, and it was quite common to have two or three classes in the lecture room at the same time, making it around 30- 40 students.

Don't think I could do that now, this PTSD has a lot to answer for, it's totally changed my life for the worse?

Now that the days are getting longer, it want be long before I will be pottering about in the garden, the first job I've got is to repair the back fence, that a storm demolished a few weeks ago?

 

[ladee]

Happy to hear you are making plans @Gadgie !!! And I know about the PTSD making it hard to work again. I do not make enough in SS to live so am looking for something that I can do alone.... my physical health is really bad, but I would do house cleaning, just to have to not deal with people again... I can set my own pace. Get paid cash and not mess up my SS, and feel like a contributing member of society again. I will have to pay physical consequences, but if I stay in this house, my depression only gets worse and worse..... I hate that I worked so hard for so many years that I can't even really enjoy retirement ... But hey, think of all we have survived.... I can clean houses, you can fix the fence and garden.... and that is something for both of us to be proud of..... happy to see you doing better today !!

 

[Gadgie]

Aye! I got invalided out of the emergency services when I was 49, my back injury got worse to the point I couldn't work any more.

I used to feel guilty taking the disability benefits, as I had worked all my life since I was 14, and then to suddenly stop, well, it was alien to me?

Then, my wife's illness progressed to the pout where she was bed bound, so for the next seven years, I was her 24/7 carer.

If I had known then that she was going to stitch me up when she passed, I wouldn't have done that!

 

[ladee]

I was a Private Caregiver for Alz/Dementia patients for over 24 yrs. So I do understand the work you did, and am so sorry she chose to handle things the way she did at the end. Sort of invalidates all the sacrifices you made for all those years.... Caregiving is very hard and stressful, so hope you eventually are able to let go of what she did, which will be hard I know, and then the best revenge is doing well, having fun, and living your life... best wishes for you !!

 

[Gadgie]

I was just starting to do that, getting out and enjoying myself that is, then my own health went? I was starting to gain confidence in being in crowded stores, and the like, and was doing great, well I thought so.

But if they do get me better, I'm definitely going get myself out there.

 

[ladee]

Good to hear... even if you have a safe place to take a walk every day it will help... The weahter is beautiful right now so enjoy it before it gets too hot !!