Longevity

In my study of Jabez Bradwell’s diary I noted many strange comments about the village in the past. Perhaps the weirdest was that people considered it a veritable health resort in the [...]

The word messianic is very to the fore these days. It impacted upon me as I watched a one hour podcast on the keto diet. It was by a doctor in the USA and very slick. I watched this because a [...]

We humans are so gullible! I feel so gullible too. I swallowed all that hype about sweet potato and how it helped people to reach the age of 100 years. What’s not to like? They created the [...]

The word ‘final’ is beginning to intimidate me. This is my final garden, this is my final house, even my final run. It is mortality, the end of life, the finish. My body is breaking [...]

The modern world and the ancient have suddenly become similar. By that, I mean small and unpredictable. Today, we have to fear people from outside our circle, more so if they dare to cough. In [...]

I spent three weeks in Lanzarote in February 2020. I would hate you to think that I was lounging in the sun doing nothing. In fact, I was caring for myself in accordance with advice from a [...]

Ann and I live in our cosy little seaside bubble. We have no children and in the event of one of us becoming gaga, how do we best protect each other? The advice was to take out a lasting power of [...]

Those of us who are pensioners have seen our age at death increasing year on year. The extension has been one and a half years for each decade over the past 50 years. Figures in the past few [...]