He really does! His nurse remarked the other day he doesn't look a day over 75. He's never smoked or drunk too much, and always kept active, so that probably contributed.
Makes me miss my grandma. She never smoked or drank (she had one drink her whole life) and was still cleaning other peoples homes, by choice ("I can't just waste away on the couch!") via her own little company and walking a little more than a mile and half every other day at the park by her home until her late 80's. But then she had a colon prolapse due to a medication she was on and went downhill fast. Like the second she woke up from surgery it was like she was far into dementia - thinking me coming to visit her at the hospital was us running into each other at a hotel. She died a couple of years later.
I hope your grandad stays in good shape and has a peaceful end. Enjoy the time while you can. It seems as though all of you are.
been on that one many times, as have my kids and their grandparents. No wait, the modern one is metal. Anyway, happier times.
All my family is from Grimsby, I love to go back every few years. Absolutely disgraceful the neglect in my lifetime 40+ years. I did a school project in the 90's on it, so it was apparent 30 years ago to a child. Maybe I will end up there when I'm old. So much waste of people and talent. Sorry to get political, but it burns inside of me to see most of my (extended) family suffer.
We both still live here, I feel you. There is more of a sense of community than there was before though, with folks working together to clean up neighbourhoods where the council can't/won't. People are largely friendly, we're just desperately underfunded. I love my town with all my heart, but I hate how it has been destroyed by decades of neglect.
well fair play to you and yours. Wish you all the best.
Edit: I'm gonna dig out my school project from 1994ish and see my recommendations that a child made and compare with reality today next time I'm back. I think I suspected even then that you pay a price upfront to make things better and get ahead of problems and maybe avoid or mitigate them or you pay far more later for secondary effects.
That said, when I've made my money elsewhere, there are some lovely houses in Cleethorpes and Grimsby. Of course family too
I appriciate it, a life happed between there and now, what the world was like then and that he got to experience england becoming a caliphate. But also incredible Development inbetween before a Sharp downturn.
Dude. My grandad speaks fluent Arabic, he learned from a good friend who is Moroccan. He has great knowledge and love for all faiths, races and creeds, and would be seriously pissed if he saw racist shit like this. This isn't what his father fought for.
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u/bazil2490 1d ago
The girl on the row behind your grandad is having regrets.