Life Around Sixty

A good article posted on the Ode2old blog on Tuesday. Give it a read. I found it quite inspiring. Many of us have been or will be taking care of our aging parents. Some of us are wondering who’s going to take care of us. The attitudes prevalent... 

One of the markets which has collapsed in the last couple of weeks is the shipping market. This is a very bad thing. Just as the honeybee is vital to food production, shipping lies at the basis of world trade in goods. The term shipping market refers... 

Over on the Going Like Sixty blog, Mark has posted some pictures of himself back in the day. That means I have to respond in kind. Which is good in a way, because I didn’t know how I was going to sneak this one in. It doesn’t really fit any of the themes I wanted to develop. Herewith,... 

Nowadays, hangers-on are people that attach themselves to you, get in the way and steal some status by association with you. Overall, having them is negative, although I suppose their presence conveys a certain degree of status in itself. Hanger-on is another word which has morphed over the years into... 

Here’s a little photo tour of our dome building exercise. As I said, the site we were woring on was a bench about 800 feet up. It was a grove of Alder in the midst of Cedar and Sitka spruce. The alders we cut to make space kept us warm for about two years. Once you’ve knocked a few trees... 

Nowadays, hangers-on are people that attach themselves to you,...